Hotel California

The Mayor of Los Angeles announced today that he wants to build 20,000 units of affordable housing in that city over the next five years. The cost will be high, somewhere near Five billion dollars. He hopes to raise the money from the Federal government (a hard task considering the state of things), charities, and [...]

Anarchy Burger

Found this on Salon.com. It’s an opinion, sure, but it full of truth and things to consider. Check it out, it’s called Remember Iraq?
I think the question mark says it all.

Closed Down

Just read something disturbing: One in five employers does research on the web about potential employees. Yikes and double Yikes! This is scary, unsettling, and maybe even a little wrong–but that doesn’t change anything. Big brother IS out there, only now he’s not just the government, he’s the corporation, or little mom and pop business [...]

The Mercy Seat

What is up with the San Jose Sharks? I know it’s still the pre-season and that they are getting used to a new couch and a new system, but come on. They’ve played four games, and won only one. In all of the losses they have allowed at least five goals. They have yet to [...]

Nice Dream

So the bailout didn’t happen, and Congress has had to go back to the drawing board, as they say. McCain is apparently at the end of his rope. There is a long road ahead of us, blah blah blah. I’m getting sick of all these cliches, and just want something to happen. Something that will [...]

Idioteque

Well, get ready to run to the bank. Put your cash in the shoe box, and start investing in canned food, shotguns, and water. Make sure you have lots and lots of water, you’re going to need it. Things just got a whole lot worse, and now there really is no end in sight.
The 700billion [...]

A Perfect Mess

So while I was trying to stay awake last night, I wandered down to the international television viewing room in the dorm where I live. Sometimes you can find stuff in English, like the other night I watched some of the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster, or whatever it’s called. I’ve seen it before, [...]

Where Eagles Dare

Ugh, what a long day. Had to be at the train station here in Liberec at 4:51 am to catch the first of many trains that would take me to the Czech Embassy in Berlin. Because I had to be up so early, I didn’t really go to sleep last night. I just kinda dozed, [...]

Nimrod’s Son

We all know there are major differences between Obama and McCain, aside from the obvious ones of age and race. For this post, I ma going to focus a little on their foreign policy.
McCain is experienced, Obama is not. Okay. We get that, but that still does not explain anything, or offer any kind of [...]

Kids of the K Hole

In 2003, the Republicans in California started recall proceedings against this guy:
His name is Gray Davis, and if your memory is so short that you cannot remember events from five years ago, the recall was successful and resulted in the election of this guy as the new Governor of California:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, better known for his [...]