It looks like we will have Michele Bachmann to kick around for two more years. But it was damned close (1%). And Minnesota's legislature even gave her a more favorable district in the redistricting process ( Read more... )

That I have figured out who to vote for for School Board, AC District Transit Board, and BART Director.

That is all.

I get to vote for President, US Senator, US Representative, State Senator, State Assemblyperson ( Read more... )

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Berkeley physicists... report they have trapped and stored a few dozen atoms of antimatter ( Read more... )

Driving to lunch, we were stopped at a red light at the corner of Dwight and San Pablo in Berkeley. To my left, on the other side of the street, is a cafe/buffet restaurant with very large glass windows ( Read more... )

After meeting in late 2008 and realizing they were both passionate animal-rights advocates, Shannon and Florian Radke fell in love. Shortly after their June 2010 wedding they opened Cinnaholic, which sells vegan cinnamon rolls, brownies, cookies and coffee... If they're expensive, it's because being vegan is expensive, requiring the purchase of ( Read more... )

Welcome to our dysfunctional state.  With no budget, no jobs and no money, you wouldn't think anyone would be interested in trying to be its next Governor, let alone the next Member of the State Equalization Board, 1st District.  But you would be wrong.  Very wrong.

I plan a 12 part series on the California election, covering the races for Governor ( Read more... )

The brainiest city in the United States?

( According to the Daily Beast )

It is illegal in the city of Oakland, CA to dress

"in the attire of a person of the opposite sex."

and has been for the last 130 years. (The Oakland City Council is about the repeal that law).