American Dash

Taking Sides It's pretty obvious who is going to pay for the California budget crisis by class: the rich and near rich reap the benefits...

Hell Freezes Over It must have, because the American Medical Association has endorsed the House version of the healthcare bill, which not on...

Tuesday's Notes If you're looking for a site that is tracking the ins and outs of healthcare legislation in brief summaries, you...

Terminator Lies Pushing his suddenly rabid right agenda, the Terminator (who is currently governor of California) is lying about fraud and a...

Today's Notes Andrew Sullivan's blog continues to be an excellent source of news on the continuing protests in Iran. And thus it mu...

Memorial The Michael Jackson mania has mostly passed me by. Although I thought his moment in the 80s--"Billie Jean," the moonwalk...

The Delusional Enabled Here are two examples of two trends. The trends are: the Republican congressionals' increasing detachment from r...

The Terminator As California continues to sink financially, economically and with social consequences accruing for a long time to come, it...

Palintology Sarah Palin picked Friday July 3 to announce she's stepping down as governor of Alaska after 2 and a half years of her first...

Lakers Phil Jackson will be back as coach, which is good. But the Lakers signed Ron Artest from the Rockets and let Trevor Ariza go to the R...

The Terminator's California Shock Doctrine Governor Terminator and his Republican minions are ignoring the efforts of the Democratic maj...

60 After all these months, it got settled in a day: the MN Supreme Court's unanimous verdict on all counts, the Governor ready to certif...

Where's the White House Channel? We have, at the very least, an interesting President. He's doing and saying a lot. At his press c...

California Nightmaring Update: Caltics uses--gasp!--facts to show that "the May 19 special [election] was not a tax revolt and that p...

Economic Notes Soaking up information and talk on my Pittsburgh/western PA visit, I can report that some real estate activity has picked up,...

City of Champions (and Lakers) Continued Pittsburgh continue to celebrate, with an especially close bond between the Penguins hockey players...

City of Champions Though I'm not much of a hockey fan, I lived in Pittsburgh when the Penguins won their Stanley Cup championships in 19...

Kobe I am currently in the land of the Penguins, and while I cheer for any Pittsburgh team, I know very little about hockey and can't ge...

The Terminator vs. the Helpless :With this photo of a demonstration against health care cuts in Los Angeles by health care workers and pati...

NBA Dream--or Nightmare? It was all set up to be Kobe vs. LeBron. The Lakers were the best team, the Cavs had the best record. But when Clev...