Marin County, north across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, is home to a very specific type of powerful liberal — the wealthy one. We will define wealth here as any group at least 30 rungs above poverty, where the West Virginian middle class would rank, say 6 rungs above poverty. Wealthy liberals in…
In my Why Leave America post, I cast a wide net over the cancers of America that so keenly appall me. On a more positive note, I’d like to address several of the reasons why New Zealand is a much better place to live. New Zealand is a small country with a small population (just…
Many people who know me know I’m leaving the country for a time. Moving to New Zealand in 2009, that wondrous and simple country where I possibly spent the three most creatively fruitful months of my life, back in 2000, when I wrote the first draft of The Superhero’s Closet. But as beautiful as it…
I joined Facebook on August 6, 2007 for two reasons: to remain abreast as an interaction designer of what the kids are playing with these days, and to sate my curiosity about the value of the enterprise. Now, just over 5 months later, I am dismantling my Facebook account (which is so much more gratifying…
Well, kooky Californian spiritualists are at it again. Today, while reviewing the Feb. 5 California sample ballot, I noticed, at the very bottom of the list of referenda and propositions, the short and sweet sentence that is Proposition C: Shall it be City policy that the City should explore and facilitate the acquisition of Alcatraz…
“It appears he is someone who was in need of help and sought attention in absolutely the wrong way,” she said. “It was for me and my campaign an especially tense and difficult day.” Clinton meets with staffers after hostage ordeal – CNN.com Clinton had a bad day. Boo hoo. Try empathizing with someone who’s…
Some days I look around and wonder why so many people in San Francisco dress so horribly. Some of it is an artifact of the usual influence bad pop fashion has on regular people who never look as good as their TV and magazine icons. Some of it is just an absence of common sense….
I’ve heard stories throughout Bush’s interminable tenure as President that in person he’s charming, that he seems real. I’ve also heard that he’s dumb as a post, a person who reacts crudely to immediate situations rather than revere and ponder the responsibilities a majority of misguided Americans bestowed upon him. What I had never heard…
How come the French get to have so much fun with commercial advertisements?
I make no bones about my scorn for the queer obsession with marriage equality. Equal protection under the law is just the cart. It’s the horse we should behead. Government has no constitutional authority to dabble in the marriage business. But Americans depend on big government to coddle them while they blithely swallow the role…