I had the utmost pleasure a couple months ago — and I am completely serious here — of returning home to find the TV had gone wonky with pink halos showing up everywhere and the family needing 3D glasses to keep Miley Cyrus from having multiple eyelids. Rather than shovel money into our early-model rear-projection …
Monthly Archive: June 2009
Jun 21
What a sorry mess this Edge-Wilcox tale is
I don’t know David Edge. I don’t know Gail Wilcox. I don’t know any more than you do about the relationship they’ve had over the last decade or how it deteriorated into the debacle the county now faces. I do know this: It never should have gotten this far. As an outside observer trying to …
Jun 16
Don't even think about having fun at your graduation, you bunch of slackers!
I was perusing the Web today and came across a head-shaking story about a school in Maine that sent a graduating senior back to his seat without his diploma because the fellow, in a fit of joyful insanity, dared to blow a kiss to his family as he crossed the stage. These are the rules, …
Jun 14
That will be 10 bucks a smoke, and you can only light up in your bathroom
Man, I am loving the subjects coming up in the news these days. It’s like on every one, I can have a zero-tolerance, non-negotiable, my-way-or-the-highway opinion. So let’s talk about the anti-smoking legislation that Congress sent to Obama’s desk on Friday. We don’t need to mince words here. It’s a beautiful thing. Any bit of …
Jun 10
Nutjobs AND guns kill people
Guns don’t kill people. Demented fanatics kill people. But guns definitely make it easier. In the last two weeks, we’ve had two primo examples about why this country needs tougher firearms laws. In Wichita, police say a hate-mongering abortion foe walked into a church and executed Dr. George Tiller. In Washington, it appears, some damn …
Jun 08
Homophobia has no place in the military
So I find it just lovely that we still live in a country which out of one side of its mouth will chatter self-importantly about its commitment to equality while out of the other side of its mouth will rationalize with equal self-importance a blatant form of discrimination. I’m talking about the Supreme Court’s recent …
Jun 05
Why won't they let us get on Highway 101?
I have to say, I’m quite exhausted with all the apparent roadwork going on along the Highway 101 corridor through San Luis Obispo. I say “apparent” because I see far more cones and signs than actual workers. I know Caltrans is an easy target when they tackle needed repairs that disrupt our normal patterns, but …
Jun 03
Ronnie looks like the Terminator, and it’s freaking me out a little
Maybe it’s just me, but the similarities between Arnold Schwarzenegger and the late Ronald Reagan are getting downright scary. First, they both came to fame on the silver screen and were Hollywood stars before entering the political galaxy. Then, they both ran for office and became governors. And they became governors of the same state. …
Jun 01
Poly ballplayers can hold their heads high
Gotta send one last set of props out to the Cal Poly softball and baseball teams for a fine year. Even though the endings didn’t turn out quite as well as we all might have hoped, it was a landmark year in many respects. The softball team put up a good fight in its return …
