Los Angeles got hit by a blackout yesterday when a woman in Reseda plugged in a hair dryer at the same time a guy in Simi Valley turned on the air conditioning ... or something like that. Union official Brian D'Arcy, however, blamed the city's policy of having employees work during the daytime. Brian D'Arcy, […]
While I was stuck in the mess that was the I-15 this afternoon attempting to get to work, I caught the first hour of Hugh Hewitt on the radio. Hugh makes an excellent point about the confirmation hearing for Judge John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and […]
So, it was nearly time to go home and the night metro editor comes up to me and says: "Matt, you follow politics. What's up with Arlen Specter? He looks horrible." "He's got cancer," I reply. "Oh." Check back again next week for a new episode of "Work conversations."
I didn't listen to Monday's speeches by senators at the confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts. I'm just not into self-abuse. But I did catch a little bit of Sen. Ted Kennedy's opening statement while listening to the late night replay of the Tony Snow Show. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and […]
Dianne Feinstein is questioning John Roberts and she is shocked, shocked I tell you, about Roberts' famous lawyer joke. Talk about playing to the stereotype of the humorless, easily offended man-hater. The really sad thing is, that she is the better of the two California senators.
You know, when an abortion-protestor makes violent threats, it usually elicits denunciations by public officials and calls for moving them ever farther from the clinics' front doors. But, when an abortion supporter threatens to lynch a judge, well, that's material for the eighth paragraph of the story. "This ruling came out at quarter to five […]
Former California Gov. Pete Wilson recounts the rebuilding of the I-10 freeway in Los Angeles after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. If you're serious about actually getting stuff done, then this is the way to do it. Frankly, I often wish that they'd take this sort of approach with the I-15 freeway through San Diego. They've […]
If you work in a union shop, you apparently get better jobs than actually working for a union. I know that a lot of people have a visceral dislike of Wal-Mart because of how poorly they allegedly treat their employees. However, if you were, say, a union, and you wanted to make a point about […]
If you didn't get up early enough this morning to watch Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu look like a complete and total idiot on "Fox News Sunday," then head over here and check it out. Even if you showed me a CAT scan of this woman's skull and it showed a brain, I wouldn't believe it, […]