And the award for worst traffic jams in the country goes to … The intersection of the 405 and the 101 in Los Angeles, which averages 318,000 cars a day! And some say it’s closer to 350,000 a day now. I live…

Pre-emptive strike on the Dean machine Howard Dean’s online campaign threatened to sideline traditional Washington powerbrokers. No wonder they went on the attack.

Sounds like Ralph is running From a Nader listserv Watch  Ralph Nader announce his decision on the 2004 presidential race this Sunday morning, February 22,  on NBC’s Meet the Press. Can’t imagine he’d go to the trouble of appearing on…

Getting married in SF Wow. What better “defense” of gay marriage could there be than these wonderfully moving photos of lesbian and gay couples getting married in San Francisco.And – San Francisco sues California over ban on gay marriage! San Francisco…

Grocery strike: Negotiations into ninth day Negotiators in the supermarket strike talks spent more than eight hours at the bargaining table Wednesday and will meet again today, swelling hopes on the picket lines. With pressure to settle mounting on both…

Aaargh A few days back I mentioned how computer programming errors, which can be maddeningly difficult to solve, are often due to something completely obvious staring you in the face. Yet you never see it until, well, you see it.…

John Edwards Iraq “policy” “Make no mistake,” he added, “Saddam Hussein alone has chosen war over peace. He has defied international law rather than disarm his weapons of mass destruction. Our world will be safer when he is gone.” John…