I so don’t have time to write this post that it’s not even funny. I have 10 chapters (~375pp) of page proofs to get through in the next 9 days. But there’s something so irritating going on in the health care debate right now that, page proofs be damned, I have to take a few [...]
Despite what Republicans would have you believe, the right to sue is an important one. People really do get screwed over all the time–by corrupt businesses, incompetent professionals, governmental entities with private agendas. “Tort reform” that makes life unpleasant for legitimate plaintiffs is simply unacceptable–the law is the last recourse of the little guy who’s [...]
I’m not an economist, but you knew that, right? In fact, my exposure to the science of economics is one freshman-level econ course, taken almost 20 years ago, plus the minimum due diligence that I think any citizen owes in learning about things that might affect the way they’d vote, plus the random poking about [...]
I was very happy with the the results of the national election last week, even as I was quite upset about some of the results of the California balloting (in particular, the passage of Proposition 8). Unsurprisingly, the right wing has lost little time about being nasty about our new President. More surprisingly, and more [...]
My parents got married this summer. Not because they’d only just decided to make such a commitment–they’ve been together over 35 years now–but because, for the first time in California, the law allowed them to. They didn’t want to wait to plan a ceremony–they’d been waiting for decades already–so I wasn’t able to be there [...]
