On Lemmings…

“As a group, lemmings have a rotten image but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.”

–Warren Buffett    Read more »

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Poverty, Pollution & Polemics

Sacramento Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, Former Department of Finance Director Ana Matosantos and Kate Gordon, vice-president/director of Energy & Climate Programs at Next Generation

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The Name Game

Want a bridge or freeway named after you? Here’s the skinny. By Greg Lucas, Sacramento News & Review, February 20, 2014 

Bummer for James “Sunny Jim” Rolph. The charismatic mayor of San Francisco from 1912 to 1931, who died in office broke as California’s 27th governor, got his bridge taken away again.    Read more »

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Preventing a Final Indignity

Death certificates are the latest battleground for gay rights advocates trying to ensure that the gender a person identifies with in life carries over into death.

A bill introduced recently aimed at ensuring the death certificates of transgender persons reflect their chosen gender is the latest legislative effort to vouchsafe the rights of this small category of Californians.    Read more »

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“This Election, I Think People Are Going to Stop Thinking About Themselves, and Start Thinking About Me, Al Franken.”

A recent fundraising appeal from the senator from Minnesota:

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Know Thyself

“If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question(of whether you’re past the boundary) is to answer it.”

–Charlie Munger    Read more »

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LIke The Beatles Say…

“It irritates the hell out of me but you can’t buy love.”

— Warren Buffett    Read more »

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Esurient

Adjective: “Hungry or Greedy.”

Used in a Sentence: “It seems a tad esurient of my learned colleague to favor 17 highway projects in his own district and a combined total of two in the districts of the remaining 10 members of this committee.”    Read more »

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“The Real Neel” on Taxes

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Is New School Vaccine Law Undermined By Reporting Rules?

Regulations implementing a new law aimed at reducing the number of unvaccinated kids attending school may do just the opposite.

A 2012 bill, which took effect January 1, requires parents seeking an exemption from vaccinations against diseases like measles and whooping cough, to first talk with a health care provider about the risks and benefits of vaccines.    Read more »

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