California Wildfires Are the Lesson We Never Learn
It is wildfire season in California. The first typically come in early to middle autumn when the land is dry as a bone and the Santa Ana Winds blow hot air to fan the flames. A spark here and the fire is started. A few burning embers caught up in the winds, and the fire [...]
John Edwards’ Poverty Lesson, When You Get Caught, Raise Your Prices
According to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times, John Edwards has decided to reemerge from his seclusion and go back on the public speaking circuit. He also decided to raise his speaking rates to $65,000, up from the more previous $55,000. That’s a lot of money to talk about poverty. Or maybe the cost of [...]
Fuel Prices Send American Workers Below the Border
I noticed this article in the San Diego Union-Tribune about American drivers going down below the border to buy diesel fuel at half the price they can get it here.
Bus service may be halted today
By Omar Millán González
UNION-TRIBUNE
June 19, 2008
TIJUANA – Truck and bus drivers experienced a day of chaos in Tijuana yesterday, as they [...]
The Soul of the Machine
Automated Content Will Unmake Existence
By Jason Lee Miller - Fri, 07/11/2008 - 12:53pm.
Hug a writer today
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts—those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence—then why bother existing? For the entire article go [...]
Shelly Berman and Lily Tomlin Are Finally Off the Cell Phone
Californians are finally acquiescing to the new laws prohibiting one handed cell phone use in the car.
California Moves to Curb Bad Habits of Motorists
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
LOS ANGELES — On any given day on a California freeway, it is not uncommon to see a young woman, phone cradled against one ear, carefully painting her nails a [...]