I left California for Nevada about 15 years ago because I felt that, despite a robust economy at the time, the State of California was doomed. I felt that there were too few taxpayers paying for too many services and there was a swelling number of people paying little or no tax yet expecting the [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The California Economy in Crisis
Posted in economy on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hot, Flat, Crowded, and Stupid
Posted in economy, energy, renewable energy, tagged energy policy, globalization, hot, flat, crowded, Thomas Friedman on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am reading Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat and Crowded. It is an excellent book and addresses the essence of the problems the world faces, primarily global warming, although I get this nagging feeling that it is like so many such books, overly optimistic about the possibilities for the future. I suppose it has to be, [...]
Is a Mac Bettter than A PC – Notes from an ex-Windows User
Posted in economy, tagged mac, Mac and PC, macintosh, OS/X, pc, Windows on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Actually the title to this article is a little misleading. I still use Windows, just not intentionally. You may already get the drift of this article. I have been using Windows almost since the beginning. It sucked then, it sucked when it became Windows 3.0, 3.1 … then Windows NT arrived and it looked like [...]
TARP Funds to be Repaid by Banks at a Discount – Oh boy?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many banks are scrambling to repay the money the government loaned then when it looked like the banks would collapse because of all the many misdeeds and poor decisions and stupid risks they had taken. This may sound like a good thing, yet they are being allowed to buy back the warrants that basically gave [...]
Renewable Energy in the Obama Era
Posted in public policy, renewable energy on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
President Obama campaigned on renewable energy as a core part of his plan and is reportedly using billions of his stimulus plan to fund renewable energy. Of course, most of the stimulus plan is going to rebuild the exact same banking system using the exact same people as we had before, an amount between itself [...]
Should Pot be Legalized?
Posted in economy, politics, tagged drug trade, legalization, legalize pot, legislation, marijuana, pot, war on drugs on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not a drug user but I am in favor of legalized pot, but only if it is taxed and taxed reasonably. The reasonableness test is an added stipulation after reading about California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s proposal to tax pot at $50/ounce.
Pot is about as easy to come by for kids as cigarettes, it’s the [...]
