Although Monday’s are usually quiet news days, perhaps the hoopla tomorrow is churning it out:

• From the “Brands That Live and Die” Department: The NY Times is reporting that even though the Sharper Image stores have closed, the brand is living on. Specifically, the new owners of the brand are using it for new innovative, although cheaper, ( Read more... )

Barak Obama is a tea-drinker.

The LA Times has an interesting piece today regarding tonsorial trajectory (their words, not mine) of candidates for office. After all, we haven’t had a candidate with facial hair since William Howard Taft. Note that Abraham Lincoln was elected cleanshaven and grew his famous beard between election and inauguration. Bill Richardson has shaved his ( Read more... )

It's been a busy day -- teaching a class, reviewing documents with a short deadline, and fighting a migraine -- so the opportunity to look at the news didn't arise until I got home. But here are some observations, to feed the sharks in the water:

• From the "Making Government Efficient" Department: Those who remember back to the Clinton ( Read more... )

• From the “Watch What You Say” Department: Back in 2000, George W. Bush said that he wanted to be a uniter, not a divider. After 8 years of his administration, I think we can now say that goal was achieved. He united a majority of the country... behind President-Elect Barack Obama.
  
  
• From the “Remember the 14th” Department: Alas it looks like ( Read more... )

We have a history changing election. Our first African-american president. With Hillary’s historic run, we’re likely to have a women president in the next 20 years. So what barrier will fall after that?

Poll Next-BarrierP.S.: Although what I heard of McCain’ concession speech was good... couldn’t he have shown respect for the rest of the country and waited until ( Read more... )

Well, I was going to do a News ChumTM today. I was going to talk about how the announcement about Circuit City closing 155 stores seemed oddly juxtaposed against the article about the VCR going the way of the dodo. I was going to write about the 100-calorie Twinkie. I was going to write about the death of Yma SumacBut then I realized, tomorrow is ( Read more... )

As I know everyone doesn’t read their FL over the weekend, I just wanted to alert folks that I did my regular election ballot summary and analysis over the weekend. It was posted in two parts, presented here as two fake cuts:

( Part 1: Propositions and Local Measures )

( Part 2: The Candidates )

Part 1 has already engendered some heated ( Read more... )

And now for Part 2, this time focusing on the people running on the ballot. Here we go....
( Clicky here for my recommendations )

This is the first of a multiple part post looking at the issues on my
sample ballot. In this first part, I'm going to be looking at the propositions,
and giving you my thinking. Of course, you are free to try to convince me
otherwise, so do your best.

Statewide Measures

( Clicky Here for the analysis )