This sums up pretty well the eyes wide shut attitude going on right now by people not really trying to make a calculated decision about who to vote for U.S. President

[Cartoon by Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle]

Since 2004 American households have been putting away less than $400 a year in savings. That’s almost identical to the saving registered during the depression. How can such a rich country have so little to save? (That’s a rhetorical one. Okay? ‘Kay.)

The NYTimes has done yet another no-holds-barred data analysis of how indebted our country [...]

California votes again. There are plenty of races and ballots that I have little or no opinion on. There are, however, a couple critical items that there is only one way to vote on. For those I offering guidance on how to cast your vote.
CALIFORNIA STATE BALLOT MEASURES
Prop. 98 : NO
By allowing eminent domain you [...]

The salmon population in the Pacific of the Wester U. S. is so decimated the Pacific Fishery Management Council has enacted a complete ban on all commercial and recreational chinook fishing.
This is not something that has happened before, ever. Since humans have lived in North America there have always been massive populations of chinook [...]

The Democratic primaries have shown me that both Obama and Clinton would be Presidents that would make me proud. So no matter who gets the nomination or who get the VP nod, there is only one thing to focus on, the Republican candidate.
All that matters right now is to beat McCain.
So I’ll say it [...]

The Bay Guardian just
ran an article about my old friend Tom Price. The article was supposed to be about the free solar grid he worked to install in Gerlach, Nevada and his new solar endeavor, but since Tom has literally done A METRIC F*CK TON of really deep, purposeful stuff in the last 5 years, [...]

Last week I wrote a congratulatory entry praising the music industry to start allowing their customers to buy song downloads that are not crippled by software that chains it to a single device. My desire is that I can buy a song and listen to it on whatever devices I have at that point and [...]

Last week I posted the above photo I took of an ‘IMPEACH’ banner unfurled at AT&T Park (Giant’s Stadium) during the National Anthem . The entry was heavily cited.
One of the people responsible for the banner posted a comment on my entry saying they were part of a Bay Area group of CodePink. CodePink is [...]

Scotter Libby walks on his 30 month prison term for obstruction of justice. Talk about obstruction of justice.
You read Frank Rich’s opinion piece in the Sunday Times where he starts gathering the clues pinning this leak and much more back to Vice Commandant Cheney, right?
Regardless of how he spend it, justice has spoken and [...]

Since before Napster1.0 was closed down I verbally shared with anyone that would listen what the future of music sales should be. When I buy the license to own a song, that license should not be limited to the format I bought the song in. Whether LP, cassette, CD and then later digital-rights management [...]