January 31, 2017
Los Angeles Times Gun Ignorance

The Los Angeles Times is your typical big-city newspaper full of hoplophobic know-nothings whose gun ignorance is a badge of honor. Earlier this month, the Times opined, one of the nation's largest newspapers, that allowing concealed weapons on college campuses is a "silly, and dangerous, idea." As is to be expected when it comes to gun-ban advocates—and make […]

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January 25, 2017
Upcoming radio appearance

I'm scheduled to appear tomorrow on Dave Congalton's radio show on KVEC 920 AM tomorrow during the 5 p.m. hour to talk about my weekend column on San Luis Obispo's proposed plastic beverage bottle ban. You can listen live online here. UPDATE 1/27/2017: For those of you who missed it, you can listen to the podcast […]

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January 20, 2017
Bloodthirsty conservatives

My weekly column will appear Sunday in The Tribune. It won't appear completely as I submitted it, because I am apparently a bloodthirsty conservative. The following sentence was deemed inappropriate for a family newspaper: Like a bus full of lawyers going off a cliff, the ban is a good start. The sentence is referring to the […]

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January 16, 2017
Women's March in SLO

I'll be attending Saturday's Women's March in San Luis Obispo, not as a participant, but as an observer. This won't be the first protest I've attended, just the first in quite some time. I'm going for one primary reason: One of the speakers here in San Luis Obispo is the Chief of Police, Deanna Cantrell. […]

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January 8, 2017
Top 10 Most Annoying Stories of 2016

My column in this week's San Luis Obispo Tribune is a Top 10 Most Annoying Stories of 2016 (state and local only). State and local because the paper has asked me to focus locally because they've got plenty of syndicated columns available (that they pay for) that focus on national topics. My column includes a link […]

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January 5, 2017
Apple and Bushmaster

Ars Technica reported earlier this week that a Texas family is suing Apple after a driver using the company's FaceTime app smashed into the family's Toyota Camry and killed 5-year-old Moriah Modisette. The family claims that Apple should've made its software so that it could not be used if the phone's built-in GPS detected that the user […]

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