Sounds About Right…

“I don’t think about what I do. I do it. That’s Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.”

6.07.2012

Two Memorable Encounters with Ray Bradbury

It’s not always best to meet an idol. Sometimes the actual person doesn’t live up to the idealized.

This was anything but the case on two occasions shared with Ray Bradbury, each some 20 years apart.

The first was during the Deukmejian administration in the mid 1980s and Bradbury was a dinner speaker kicking off a tourism conference in Sacramento. Read more »

6.06.2012

Happy Birthday Governor Deukmejian!

Courken George Deukmejian, California 35th governor, was born in Menands, New York on June 6, 1928.

Running as Attorney General on a law-and-order platform in 1982, Deukmejian sharply expanded California’s prison building program – and the number of inmates behind bars. He also remade the state Surpeme Court in his iamge after voters ejected Chief Justice Rose Bird and two other justices in 1986. Read more »

6.06.2012

A Look at One Form-E-Mail Regarding the Budget

Thank you for contacting my office with your concerns about the Governor’s May Revision and subsequent budget cut proposals, especially those of the (INSERT CONSTITUENT CONCERN HERE).

It is important to point out that over the past year, we have reduced California’s structural budget deficit from $19 billion to about $8 billion. Read more »

6.04.2012

A Very Special “Politics on Tap” Examining Political Satire Featuring Tom Meyer, Political Cartoonist, Adam Gottlieb, Political Memorabilia Collector, and Capitol Journalist Allen Young Read more »

6.04.2012

From Time Magazine: The Truth About Men, Women and Work

By Rana Foroohar

First there was the mancession. Then there was the economic war on women. Over the past four years, the monthly jobs figures have been spun like a roulette wheel to declare which sex is gaining–or losing–from recession and recovery. April’s numbers show that women gained 73% of the 115,000 new jobs added to the U.S. Read more »

6.01.2012

California May Crack Down on Abandoned Mattresses

A new state program would be created to reduce the number of illegally dumped mattresses under legislation narrowly approved by the state Senate May 31.

The bill – SB 1118 by Sen. Loni Hancock, a Berkeley Democrat — would require mattress makers to collect used mattresses with their brand name and force mattress retailers to pick up old mattresses when a consumer buys a new one. Read more »

6.01.2012

From Time Magazine…

The pecentage of countries considerd to haev a ferwe press in 2012 iks 34 percent. Thirty-seven percent were considerd to haev a aprtly free press.

In a ranking of Brazil, China, Egypt,India, Russia, Turkey and South Africa the two countries with the least free press were China and Russia. By far. Read more »

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