Entries from August 2008

Marinwood Village

Date August 24, 2008

The Pacific Sun wrote an article about the Marinwood Village project.
The Marinwood Village plan is still includes a grocery store, ancillary retail, a plaza or community gathering area, and a redesign of Marinwood Avenue with not more than 100 residential units. The project is being delayed by worse than expected contamination from the dry cleaner. […]

‘No one goes full retard’ edition

Date August 24, 2008

I dedicate this post to the fringe political movement against the movie, “Tropic Thunder,” who want to ban the movie not because it is lame but because it uses the word, “retard” too much. Organizers of the boycott say it is hate speech. I say it is the market force of 12 year old boys […]

Website Puts a Human Face on Budget Line Items

Date August 24, 2008


The YouTube video above is from mycastory.org a website whose mission is to share stories of Californians who will be effected by budget cuts. Key contributors to this project are Health Access California and California Association of Food Banks, along with a community of California-based advocates for children and families.
The […]

The O and The Joe Edition

Date August 23, 2008

At 2:27 am this morning I received an email announcing Joe Biden as Obama’s VEEP.  I am so glad I didn’t pick the text option.  Anyway, I had already heard on NPR at 1:00 am this morning (we have NPR playing in the bedroom overnight which makes for some crazy news related dreams) that […]

Shelves of Rampant Capitalism

Date August 22, 2008

Long time readers remember my complaints about the store shelves of Safeway. This lead to the graphic to the left, “Safeway: Shelves Like Soviet Russia.” They have finally heard my cries and opened a real store — fully stocked and everything. I might just have to retire this graphic. Hey! Not so fast. The […]