From Salon:
The eyes of Washington are glued on San Diego, where a race this competitive -- polls show Busby and Bilbray running neck and neck --shouldn't even be happening. Voters in the dependable conservative redoubt line up as 46 percent Republican and 31 percent Democratic. After all, Camp Pendleton, the Marine base, sits to the north. The ( Read more... )

From AP:
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) - Voters in eight states go to the polls Tuesday, with the most-watched congressional contest the only one that will actually put someone in office - a special election in southern California to replace jailed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how many Californians read this blog, but just in case I wanted to remind everyone that there's a Primary tomorrow. (Yes, they chose to do the primary on 6-6-06 for some strange reason. Could it be, SATAN?!?) Personally, I'm rooting for Phil Angelides. Anyone that Barbara Boxer likes, I'm immediately cool with ( Read more... )

Oil is down $2:
NEW YORK - Crude oil futures fell by almost $2 a barrel Monday on profit-taking after prices topped $75 last week, but analysts said the decline was likely to be temporary. “The markets can’t go up every day,” said oil broker Andrew Lebow of Man Financial in New York. “Profit taking is one of the features of trading.”

But average ( Read more... )

Interesting article in the LA Times about the conflicts between parents & some merchants in America's most famous gayborhood, The Castro.
Brody Paul and his kid brother Zander are making their after-school rounds in this city's Castro district - one of the most openly gay neighborhoods in America ( Read more... )

Why does this sound so familiar?
HOUSTON - Faced with the prospect of another day of record heat, the state's power suppliers urged Texans to cut down on their electricity use in the hopes of avoiding more rolling blackouts ( Read more... )

I just saw Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Now, I really want to smack something... preferably Ken Lay's smug, sneering pug face. GAH!

Now I truly appreciate this monologue from Lewis Black's Rules of Enragement:
The people who ran this company are the greediest people who ever lived on the planet. That's a fact. This country has a ton of ( Read more... )

Meet Andrew Jones.
As the leader of UCLA's student Bruin Republicans three years ago, Andrew Jones often made it his mission to ridicule and antagonize campus liberals ( Read more... )

Last week, Bill O'Reilly threatened to sic Al Qaeda on San Francisco.
And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.

Then, instead of apologizing, he wildly spun ( Read more... )

Right, so apparently there were other elections last night? First up, that massive waste of $300 million, the California ballot initiatives, which all failed miserably.

The front page of LATimes.com screams, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No.
In a sharp repudiation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Californians rejected all four of his ballot proposals ( Read more... )