July 7, 2003
California politics, housing costs and Gray Davis

The Sacramento Bee's Dan Walters had an interesting column in today's paper regarding household plumbing. To make a long story shorter, some municipalities and counties in California allow plastic pipes for home construction. Because it takes less skill (and union members) to install plastic piping versus copper piping, unions have long opposed the cheaper product. […]

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July 5, 2003
The Democrats' modus operandi

Remember the endangered school lunch program the Newt Gingrich and his Republican cohorts were trying to "cut" back in the mid-90s? The "cut" was a reduction in the rate of increase (if I get a 3 percent pay raise one year and a 2 percent pay raise the next, has my pay been cut?), but […]

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July 4, 2003
Religion of Peace update

Unsatisfied with blowing up Jews, Christians or Buddhists, those adherents to the "Religion of Peace," aka Islam, have decided to blow up some of their own. A suicide attack today in a mosque packed with worshipers killed more than 30 people and sent enraged Shiite Muslims on a rampage through the capital of Baluchistan province […]

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July 4, 2003
Sing it again, Willie

Country music legend and tax cheat Willie Nelson has endorsed Rep. Dennis Kucinich's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. "I am endorsing Dennis Kucinich for president, because he stands up for heartland Americans who are too often overlooked and unheard," Nelson said. "A Kucinich administration will put the interests of America's family farmers, consumers and […]

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July 3, 2003
So you say it's your birthday?

Well, it's my birthday too! Really, it is. This month my birthday miraculously coincides with the monthy banging-of-the-tip-jar (links are on the left). Well-known bloggers like Andrew Sullivan raise tens of thousands of dollars on occassions such as this -- and I set my sights much lower. If giving money isn't your thing, I've created […]

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July 3, 2003
Look Ma! No brains!

Ever since there have been car stereos, there has been people willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money on them. When I was attending Helix High School, Matt Sobke spent about $3,000 on his car stereo system. As if that amount of money wasn't ridiculous enough, the car that he put the stereo system in […]

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July 2, 2003
Since the Supreme Court is so keen on the public mood

Today's Washington Times reports on a survey by the pro-abortion rights Center for the Advancement of Women that found that 51 percent of American women said the government should prohibit abortion or limit it to the narrow rape/incest/life-of-the-mother situations. In its last term, the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws and barred the execution of […]

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July 2, 2003
Finished!

It took me about a day and a half, but at about 6 a.m. this morning I finished the latest Harry Potter book. It was much longer than the previous ones, but it doesn't lag. I'll also say this for the editors -- I only saw one minor copyediting-related mistake. It was much better than […]

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July 1, 2003
The California budget and scare tactics

By the time this entry is posted, California will enter the next fiscal year without a budget -- for the third straight year. With Gov. Gray Davis facing a likely recall -- the first of a statewide official in California history -- he is in a poor position to force a compromise between Democrats loath […]

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June 30, 2003
Whistler's Mother

This weekend's Financial Times had an article on James McNeill Whistler and a show on the 100th anniversary of the artist's death. The story interested me because I enjoy Whistler's art and during high school I gave a presentation in my English class on Whistler. The reason I remember the presentation is because it was […]

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