Grocery strike Rumors have it the Teamsters may strike the grocery warehouses in support for the grocery workers. If this happens, it will be in the next week or so, and it will shut the grocery stores down completely. The…

Hey, if you live in L.A., get your bus ticket to the S.F. demo! The S.F. march and rally is this Saturday, and is part of the much larger demonstration in D.C. Buses from 135 cities will be heading to…

Israelis hit Gaza with 5 assaults; 11 dead, 100 wounded These are civilian areas they are attacking. Why is it terrorism when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonates on a bus but not terrorism when Israel fires missiles into a civilian area?…

East Coast bias alert From the NY Times, Can the Disney Hall help give Los Angeles a genuine downtown? While I rather like the architecture of the new Disney Hall, the New York Times is confused.  L.A. doesn’t need a…

Conservatives defend general who described war as battle against Satan We look forward to their cogent “logic” explaining why the universe was created in seven days.

Ancedotal evidence people are not crossing grocery picket lines I shop at a farmers market every Sunday in Encino, CA for fruit and veggies. It’s usually quite busy, however yesterday, by the time I got there at 11 am, many vendors had…

Massachusetts says Goodbye to Redmond Massachusetts adopting open-source software! Massachusetts Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss last month instructed the state’s chief technology officer to adopt a policy of “open standards, open source” for all future spending on information technology.…