A lost laptop, a $54 million lawsuit

“It shouldn’t take a $54 million lawsuit to motivate Best Buy to address these issues,” she said. Her initial offer to settle for $2,100 has been withdrawn because her expenses have risen, including time spent filing a police report and consulting with lawyers about her case, she said. Concerns about identity theft also [...]

Berkeley Backs Off On Banning Marines

At their Tuesday council meeting, leaders will discuss scrapping a letter that might be perceived as targeting the center or the Marines.

The letter said that the recruiting center was not welcome on Shattuck Avenue and that the Marines were uninvited and unwelcome intruders.[From Berkeley Backs Off On Banning Marines - News [...]

Democrat vs. Democratic

UPDATE: I have been thinking about this some more. It isn’t a question of fairness, these are the rules that the party operates by, therefore nobody should be shocked that this is happening. DNC chair Dean created this situation in the first place by disenfranchising Michigan and Florida primary voters altogether. I will say that [...]

Super Tuesday Voter’s Guide

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, which is not only a big primary day in presidential politics but also is a day that voters go to the polls to vote on measure affecting them statewide and locally. As I have done in previous elections, here’s my take on the issues:

Proposition 91: Transportation Funds

In summary, this prop repeals [...]

Real Stimulus vs. Hand Waving

The linked article nicely sums up why one-off “economic stimulus” packages are nothing more than hand waving designed to convince voters that their politicians are doing something.

Economic stimuli programs are not one-time checks to give people back money they already paid as taxes.

If somebody grabbed your wallet and then handed you back a [...]

Stupid Polls on SFGate

When I see polls like the one I clipped below (in SFGate, here’s the story) I really wonder if people pay attention to news and/or understand basic economics. But mostly I just wonder about the IQ of people writing these polls. First of all, tax actions are intended to stimulate economic activity that results in [...]

Lawmaking While Stupid

Is it not concerning to anyone else that the people who make laws about the technology in our lives seem to have very little awareness of it to begin with?

UPDATE: The other example of this that drives me bonkers are the people who talk about banning McDonald’s food because it is fattening while standing in [...]

Reach For Your Wallets

Maybe the Governator should not have increased spending by 40% since taking office. It’s funny how California’s media loves to point out that Schwarzenegger is popular despite being a Republican, which isn’t hard to believe when you look closely at how much he resembles the Democrats in Sacramento. California’s Republican contingent has been fighting the [...]

New Media and Politics

It would be nothing new to write about how new media has changed politics, indeed the first bloggers were techies who were also political junkies. But something really cool happened today that should frighten network executives in deep dark places they don’t like to talk about at cocktail parties, Mitt Romney delivered a major speech [...]

When YouTube is TheirTube

CNN hosted a YouTube debate for GOP presidential candidates this week. I’ve not paid much attention to any of the debates, from either party, YouTube or otherwise, given that so little is revealed given the constraints of the debate format. The YouTube series has been promoted as giving voice to the average person through submitted [...]

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