Happy Canada Day to our friends from the Great White North, eh! On this day in 1867, Queen Victoria gave the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the right to form a confederation, which also split the colony… Continue Reading
Everyone’s talking about Ricci v. DeStefano, the affirmative action case. And with good reason; it’s interesting, ground-breaking, and has implications for the Sonia Sotomayor nomination (since it was her ruling that was overruled by the Supremes). But one thing that… Continue Reading
Democrats — particularly Democratic legislators — appear to be made up of equal parts of corruption, incompetence, and half-baked idealism. Republican politicians, for their part, have responded to every opportunity to capitalize on this by proving themselves not only equally… Continue Reading
A while back The Wife expressed dissatisfaction with Stagecoach Bank. (Not the actual name of the bank in question.) She wanted to switch to another bank and that was okay with me. Stagecoach Bank had done something rather stupid with… Continue Reading
Let’s begin with a short quote from the Associated Press about Mark Sanford. I’m not writing about Mark Sanford in particular here, but I got to this point in the story and my B.S. detection meter began to spike: Sanford… Continue Reading
See if you can spot the astonishing misuse of the English language by the Speaker of California’s Assembly, Karen Bass* — ostensibly the second-most powerful person in the state government after the Governor — in this Fish Wrapper interview. I’ll… Continue Reading