California Politics —
The Alameda County Registrar has finally deigned to process my new residency, so I have a question for the lawyers in the audience: I know it’s legal to run around naked in your own home, but does that still apply if your home is also a polling place? Or should I vote in underwear and […]
Sigh. Didn’t we just have an election? With a billion ballot initiatives? Why can’t a populace ever get some peace and quiet that isn’t interrupted by the thundering of plebiscites?
But for all you Californians who just looove democracy, here’s a very nice analysis of Proposition 74.
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I expect Senate Bill 5 to greatly ease my passage through the hallowed halls of the University of California. Note in particular the following provision:
The Legislature further declares that … students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study and to reserve judgment about […]
There’s an article in the Weekly Standard asserting that Californians are Suckers for ‘Science’, spending a million zillion dollars on speculative stem cell research while spurning measures that would totally, definitely, for-real save lives:
THE PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION 71 in California (the Stem Cell Research and Cures Act) was an acute case of electoral folly. As […]
I’m too late for Professor Bainbridge’s spreadsheet of California blogger endorsements, but what the heck, I still need to make up my mind on this damnable list of plebiscites. Below the fold: my ballot! Before breaking to Calicentric tedium, though, a few notes:
I’m on Mildred Escobedo’s official endorsements list! I don’t know why that makes […]
In keeping with my emergent desire for political activity on those narrowly tailored local and technical matters where I feel I can be most effective, I bring you an entry of extremely limited interest - but there might plausibly be one or two California geologists lurking among you Gentle Readers. California non-geologists and googlebots may […]
The lovably zany California state goverment really needs to suck it up and raise taxes, but every so often someone proposes a spending cut I can actually support - or at least proposes to eliminate a mandate of indeterminate but non-negligible cost, which I assume will produce some spending cuts at some level. There’s a […]
A discussion on Frogs and Ravens has morphed from earthquakes to water resources - which was at least partly my fault. Maybe mostly my fault. So, here I am with a steaming pile of blame ready to plop back down on my own blog.
This isn’t the first time I’ve twigged onto a casual remark about […]
There is only sadness and bile from the L.A. Times today. First, we discover that the sale of glow-in-the-dark zebra fish will be banned in California because the Fish and Game Commissioners think genetic engineering is yucky (though they make an exception for “non-frivolous” purposes such as medicine and fattening Monsanto’s pocketbook). No, seriously, […]
Small consolations in the wake of Guvenah-Elect Ahnold:
Trumping all the “my governor can beat up your governor” cards from Minnesota.
The occasionally professional accordion player came in second-to-last.
Both bullshit ballot initiatives were killed quite dead.
Governor-elect Schwarzenegger has appeared in about 40 real movies, and many more schlocky TV specials and “The Making Of” documentaries. Combine that […]