Here in Sacramento a hot topic this year is whether to raise the sales tax to pay for a new arena for the Sacramento Kings. In a nutshell, $500 million will be raised to build an arena, the Kings’ owners
The Decider Becomes the Groper
Chancellor Angela Merkel is speaking with Italy’s Prime Minister Romano Prodi — then George W. Bush comes into the hall… … Merkel converses with her neighbor at the table, does not notice how Bush is approaching from the rear …
Gas Pumping University
New Jersey and Oregon are the only states that do not allow motorists to pump their own gas. 200,000,000 other Americans, of all ages, are able to pump their own. In the face of a New Jersey proposal to allow
Why W’s Approval Ratings are Pathetic
It is not the economy, it is stewardship. What is it that people want in a leader. Too many lies to the American people. Too many stories of corruption. Too many reports of anyone disagreeing being fired or professionally ruined.
Super Duper Max
The Moussaoui trial has ended and he is being sentenced to life in prison at the Supermax, or Super Maximum Security Prison in Colorado. What’s next? The Super Duper Max? The Extra Max? The We Really Mean It This Time
Best Movie of the Year
The Oscar for best movie of the year was awarded to Crash, a politically correct movie prevailing over another politically correct movie, Humpback Mountain. Actually, the hands-down best movie of the year was Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Both
The Iraq Civil War Money Pit
Insurgents detonated bombs inside one of the Iraqi Shiite’s holiest shrines, destroying its gold dome, and leading to more than 90 reprisal attacks. The top US commander and ambassador promised that the US would pay to help rebuild the shrine.
Cutting Off Your Own Nose
70,000 people have joined protests in Pakistan against the Muhammad cartoons. In their anger over the insult they have torched restaurants, burned movie theatres, destroyed a bus station, and ransacked the primary mobile phone operator in the country. Protestors have
Feel the Pain
Attorneys for murderer Michael Morales are trying to get a San Jose federal judge to agree that it is cruel and unusual punishment to impose the death penalty by lethal injection. They are concerned that the chemicals may not act
It is Not a Good Sign When …
You have been to the auto repair shop so often that when you walk in they do not have to ask for your name or car description before pulling your records up on the computer.