Category: Bits and Pieces

EUrope sits on the cusp of a revolution.   Between unsustainable social welfare costs and demographic collapse, EUrope’s unavoidable question will be how to address what happens, as Margaret Thatcher so memorably wondered, when socialism runs out of money. http://spectator.org/archives/2011/06/22/europes-not-so-revolutionary-y   For EUrope, we see the results in mass demonstrations

Why?  Why?  Why?  And thank goodness I didn’t take my kids into the City on June 11 for Dim Sum.  We would have driven right by this sight.

How stupid is Sarah Palin? Just watch this fabulous video to find out and also explore how a significant Lefty segment of the population can live within a totally alternative reality created from abstract emotions and insulated from facts. We’ve already had evidence of this phenomenon on this blog, but

My post title is a lie.  Last night, just before falling asleep, I had a brilliant thought.  You know the kind — it was one of those insights that completely sums up our political scene in a single sentence.  This morning, I don’t have a thought in my head, plus

I’m sorry I’ve been a little less prolific than usual.  I’ve had a lot on my plate — end of the school year, aged mother, part of a team planning a major youth athletic event, preparation for big vacation, starting a new business, plus a little legal work on the

Sean Hannity professed not to understand why Weiner got forced out while Clinton didn’t.  I have to think that he was being disingenuous, because I think the differences are obvious: 1.  Weiner started the scandal by exposing himself to the world, figuratively and literally.  In Clinton’s case, until the blue

Sadie asks the right question regarding Google’s special ad thang with the Obama team: “This is an experiment and while we generally do not comment on those experiments we can tell you that we have not sold a single CPL [cost-per-lead] ad unit to any political candidates or committees,” said

He’s an exhibitionist, and always has been.  The last thing he wants to do is take himself out of the public eye.  For this guy, who’s been obsessed with showing himself off since he was a young’un, there is no such thing as bad publicity (which also explains his over-the-top

A sad story out of Los Angeles about a 780 year old relic stolen from a Catholic Church.  It was the last sentence, though, that made wince: Police say they are seeking a woman who they call a person of interest. Has no one taught these so-called “journalists” about the

I just discovered that a whole lot of comments that would usually end up in moderation, where I can find them, got tagged as spam.  I’ve loaded them now (some are old) in hopes that it trains Askimet, my spam blocker, to recognize you.  Sorry about that.

My matched set for today…. Here is the problem with all those generous public pension plans: Marin County’s pension program is unsustainable, underfunded, imperils taxpayers and requires reform, especially in San Rafael, where the City Council ran up an $18.5 million tab by approving retroactive employee benefits and failed to

Sorry for the blog silence yesterday, but it was a very, very, very long family day, some of which included visiting my mom in the hospital.  She’s not in imminent danger of dying (although, in her high 80s, it’s always a possibility), but she thinks she is, and she’s terrified.

I’m at Marin General Hospital waiting for my mother. Nothing serious, but she’s not a happy camper. She’s upstairs now getting a CT scan, so I’m sitting in the ER watching the big production that goes with treating a prisoner. I have no idea what’s wrong with him, but I

What is it about Democrats that makes them despise our friends and love our enemies? With Clinton, it was giving away advanced parallel computing, stealth technology, submarine propeller and nuclear warhead reentry systems technologies to the Chinese.   Now, according to this article in foreign policy, it is the Obama