Category: Bits and Pieces

You can read the whole article, but the first two paragraphs pretty much tell you everything you need to know about the economic irrationality of true believers: A Pacific Gas and Electric Co. program that asks customers to fight global warming by paying a little extra on their electricity bills

Randal Hoven’s carefully documented list of Obama’s accomplishments during his (so far) brief tenure in office, especially as compared to President Bush’s eight years holding the same job, makes for interesting (very interesting) reading.

Those who have been reading the healthcare bill that Obama so desperately wants to pass (even though he himself is unfamiliar with its contents) have found some pretty shocking stuff. These tweets admirably compress some Orwellian concepts into just a few words. Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the

As someone who is herself a master of typos and a failure at proofreading, I shouldn’t be laughing here, but I found this story, from my local newspaper, ridiculously funny (emphasis mine): A Bank of America branch in Corte Madera was robbed of an undisclosed sum of money Saturday morning,

I won’t quote here.  Just go and read it. You’ll be glad you did.

I have nothing to add.  Mac Donald is right on the money about Obama’s unconscionable decision to inflame a difficult situation that almost certainly had nothing to do with race insofar as the officers were concerned, although a great deal to do with race from the moment Gates opened his

I’m not much of an electric guitar fan, but some things are so good…. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUdlaLWSVM[/youtube] UPDATE:  And since I did a “Layla,” I feel compelled to do a “Lola” (L-O-L-A Lola): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqbc7X2NQY[/youtube]

Earlier this morning I blogged about a suitably abject apology.  Now I have the perfect example of a classic non-apology: President Obama said Friday that he “could have calibrated” his words more carefully in the controversy over the arrest of a black Harvard professor by a white police officer, but

When you’re on the front lines, race is less of an issue, I think, than being able to rely on your brothers in arms.  In other words, when the chips are really down, the one who’s got your back is your colleague, regardless of color, not the man in the

As you know, the police report of Henry Louis Gates’ arrest, an arrest that involved black and Hispanic officers, as well as the white officer who got all the coverage, saw Gates instantly crying “race.”  His first words, after refusing to cooperate, were “Why, because I’m a black man in

I appreciate and admire law enforcement.  Since I’m a nice, law-abiding, white female, I’ve never run afoul of the man and women in law enforcement (although I’m not so thrilled about meter maids).  These are people who do a very necessary job and, most of the time, do it with