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With celebrity deaths, adulterous AWOL governors and protests in Iran, it was easy to overlook a couple of interesting decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme court this past week. Read the rest of this entry »

The move is finally complete and now the unpacking begins. This task is even more daunting when you suddenly find yourself squeezed into a place that is 200 square feet less than you're used to. Read the rest of this entry »

There's a new web service that has its sites on some of the Google and Wikipedia market. Wolfram|Alpha bills itself as a "computational knowledge engine" but the interface it presents looks like any other search engine. And that's the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

If you can trust the polls, then all the propositions except 1F are going to fail. State GOP leaders will predictably spin the old "no new taxes" shtick as the reason voters voted everything down. But I'm not buying it. Read the rest of this entry »

The outspoken Carrie Prejean is about to become the former Miss California. Read the rest of this entry »

Some media pundits are trying to make more out of Robert Redford's efforts to stop a so-called green housing development near his home in Napa. Read the rest of this entry »

Senate Republicans were stunned to learn that one of their own is abandoning the party. Read the rest of this entry »

Generally, good newspaper editors know that you don't run a story about a plane crash and then place an ad for the involved airline adjacent to the story. Read the rest of this entry »

Two weeks ago today, my uncle was killed in a head-on collision while heading South on Interstate 5. In the time since, we have been doing what we can to help my aunt cope with this tragedy. Read the rest of this entry »

Since our esteemed state senate Republicans seem hell-bent on taking the entire state down with their stand against taxes, I think it's time that we really consider becoming a true democracy. Read the rest of this entry »