California

My ongoing research project into how elections, candidates and issues are funded grinds on, and the more it grinds, the angrier I get at efforts to manipulate, lie, and maneuver the public into decisions that are fundamentally against their best interests. Look no farther than California for evidence of how low the Great American Political [...]

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It’s nearly 1 AM when your almost-16 year old daughter shows you the series of text messages flying around local airspace saying that some unnamed punk has threatened to bring a gun to school to settle some scores. What do you do? If you’re me, you take it damn seriously. So seriously, in fact, that [...]

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This is not an uncommon sight in Half Moon Bay. Young migrating sea lions battle El Niño currents to exhaustion. When they arrive at what appears to be a safe harbor, they become entangled in the kelp beds as they search for food. The lucky ones get out. The less fortunate fight their way to [...]

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