Nowhere Near the Edge

As if public school teachers in Los Angeles don't have a hard enough job as it is, now many of them are being underpaid or not paid at ...

It's true: time has nearly run out in California. As of September 19, 2007, Californians will no longer be able to pick up the phone, ...

If you want to see a little bit of what I do for a living, feel free to check out this opinion of California First Circuit Court of Appeal ...

It is only by working diligently, scouring the internet, that I am able to bring you gems like this . Shoot the bloons!

I have worked in a few high-tech companies in my time. Whenever an employee quit, unless it was an end-of-summer thing as was always the ca...

It looks like Phil Knight has recovered from his angst over his alma mater's joining a group that promotes the rights of overseas worke...

I like the "Bourne" set of movies. The first one, "The Bourne Identity," is one of my go-to favorites, hands down. Goo...

At long last, Top Gear is returning to the US. After a short run on Discovery, BBC America has picked up the show. Not at all a bland, Co...

Thomas Wolfe said you can’t go home again, and Gertrude Stein famously said of Oakland, “there is no there there.” To the extent that Wolfe...

If you ever see this cat approaching you, run as fast as you can the other way and hope that it doesn't follow you: Oscar the cat seem...

I've been distracted and preoccupied lately, both in action and thought. More on that to come soon, maybe. In the meantime, I have allow...

The crash of an airliner in Brazil this week brings back some points I've made before about airports with short runways in urban areas...

Apologies if you have seen this one, but I found it amusing: 1. Sitting where you are, at your desk in front of your computer, lift your rig...

Here in SoCal, a summons for jury service is not nearly the burden that it once was. You must call in to an automated telephone number each...

In an unusual mid-week excursion, we saw the latest Die Hard movie last night. If you liked the first movie and you can suspend your disbel...

As seems to have become normal during the summer months around here, we had a blackout this morning that lasted nearly an hour. Michael, wh...

Astrophysics must be a mathematician’s dream. With no environmental factors to distort the outcomes, the behavior of celestial bodies can b...

I spent yesterday in San Francisco, participating in oral argument before California’s First District Court of Appeal. Actually, I was done...

Sportscasters are often in search of phrases that convey a sense of testosterone flung about with abandon. Somewhere along the way, someone...

A clever artist once gave us "A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World": Perhaps the view from Ohio is similar. Or, perhaps...