California
"Green Jobs:" Yes We <em>Can</em> Count Them
For those who’ve been following the “green jobs” story the release late last week of the federal government’s first official green goods and services count was probably a little anticlimactic. Nearly two years in the making, the one-year “snapshot” of so-called “green jobs” from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that 3.1 million people, amounting to 2.4 percent of full-time workers, are employed in the production of goods and services that benefit the environment. READ MORE >>
Liberalism Needs A Toilet
Mitt Romney has decided that light bulbs represent liberalism's soft underbelly. Actually, they don't. The replacement of incandescent light bulbs with more energy-efficient alternatives is at best a minor inconvenience. READ MORE >>
My Inner Joe Biden
Sorry for my silence. I spent the last two days on planes and (for a tiny handful of hours in between) in Sacramento, Calif., to sit on a panel about income inequality. A trusted friend in attendance advises me that I got so hypnotized by my Power Point presentation that I failed to notice the increasingly urgent messages passed to me by the moderator, and ended up exceeding my time limit by at least 25 minutes. Must try to do better next time. READ MORE >>
Is Ann Romney’s Dressage Off Mess-AHGE?
A Morality Lesson from Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh has said many outrageous and offensive things over the years. But he may have hit a new low over the last two days. READ MORE >>
The Experiment
Why Apple Went to China, Con'd
Finally, One State Gets It Right On Immigration
When Did David Brooks Turn Into My Grandmother?
My paternal grandmother was the most determinedly pessimistic person I ever met. She witnessed during her lifetime a Great Depression and (from her perch in the Bronx) two world wars, but had she been born into a thousand-year reign of peace and prosperity I doubt she would have been a more hopeful person. On Nov. 10, 1989, I happened to be visiting my parents in California. Nana, then approaching 90 and in failing health, was sitting at the breakfast table when I came downstairs. READ MORE >>
