Month September 2006

Smoke in the air

The Day Fire, named because it started on Labor Day, is about 10-15 miles away from us. It doubled, maybe tripled, in size today due to Santa Ana winds and it now threatening Ojai. The air where we are is…

Larry Sonsini

Larry Sonsini, uber-lawyer to Silicon Valley tech firms, appears enmeshed in both the backdated options and HP spying scandals. Bizarrely, although not a member of the HP board, he chaired their emergency meeting last week, even though he’d advised HP…

Bush battered, where’s the movement?

Dubya and the neocon agenda have faced a multitude of setbacks recently, many engineered by their own party. The Bolton nomination was refused, Republicans are defying Bush on his all-torture-all-the-time agenda. The Afghanistan and Iraq wars have turning into defeats,…