Don’t look now, but the new year is already into middle age.  With six of the twelve months now behind us, and with the summer doldrums (artistic performance-wise, at least) setting in fast, here’s a look at the best of what we’ve had to entertain us in and around Sacramento so far this year.  […]

            Had your fill of summer re-runs?  Bored with the trivial offerings in the new DVD releases?  Unwilling to pony up a ten-spot to see another irrelevant remake on the big screen?  If you think there’s just no relief from the mid-summer entertainment doldrums, maybe it’s finally time to check out one of the best […]

            Quite frankly, I am amazed at how much push-back I have received to a basic point I have been making as the BP oil disaster gushes on.  Is it possible that some ideologues are absolutely blind to irrefutable evidence?  Here’s what I wrote ten years ago, when another case of corporate misfeasance was grabbing […]

            We asked the old lady why she didn’t kill any of the many flies that were constantly evident in her kitchen.             “Boys,” she said, “if I kill one of them, ten more show up at its funeral.”              President Obama did the right thing in firing (aka accepting the General’s resignation) Stanley McChrystal […]