So the people, those of us who have conserved, who have been working to get a sustainable environment should leave, but not the giant entities creating the problems by bringing people to California?

By that logic people would also have to leave much of Texas, any place along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers or by th…

California has managed to ignore the fundamental truth of this state for two centuries now: this is an arid climate. The core of the state is desert; the ocean, the coastline, and the interior survived only as long as the coast was 200 miles thick with old growth redwood trees. They and their compatriot fir trees and…

I’m sure there was a ton of managerial stress, the reason Ken didn’t have a penis is the same reason Barbie didn’t have nipples: clothes look better on smooth surfaces. These were fashion dolls, and, like the models of the time, there were to be no ripples, no bumps, no lines. It’s easier to mass manufacture tiny…

I bet this is on the site of Michele Obama’s organic garden.

I can only speak to the first half because I threw it in the recycling bin.

Be careful. People who want to launder money use houses to do it. They put money in trust or LLC accounts, then, resell and resell the house coming out with more and more laundered money every time.

Rather than use their own land, Maret got a $2.5 m tax break to improve a public facility, then called it theirs. BTW, the school has a very large field, they just don’t want to use it for practices.

Box office ≠ good film.

Art is a term that people presume means the same thing to everyone in any context. How do you compare Citizen Kane to The Wizard of Oz or The Godfather to Star Wars? You can pull out certain themes and look at them or follow the plot points or revel in the effects, but those are all partial…

Minnelli’s family was steeped in abuse. I don’t think she knows any other way. It plays out in all parts of her life. She was beaten up by various men in her life, married gay men who were after fame and her money, is a big Fox News and Bill O’Reilly fan, and paranoid about the dangerous immigrants coming to get her.

California is not a genuinely progressive state; with more billionaires and multi-millionaires than any place in the world (San Francisco has 75 resident billionaires, Silicon Valley has more multi-millionaires/capita than any place on the planet) it’s a stronghold of oligarchs. The conservatives in the state imagine…

I’ve had friends who were terrific teachers leave teaching because they couldn’t afford to stay. Even state education institutions spend more on athletics than they do on academics. The argument that sports brings in money is a lie; athetics cost universities more than they bring in.

Many years ago I was working with EY for an. audit. I was the head admin providing access to files and scheduling appointments. Not only did the rude idiot from EY treat me as if I were his maid by dropping his food wrapping on the floor and asking me to pick it up, his supervisor laughed when jerkface did it.

Esther Rolle was a great actor. She left her Broadway career to join Bea Arthur on Maude only after she saw the scripts didn’t cast her as just another black maid. With all the other loud voices, her character, Florida, was the true moral center. Rolle could say nothing, stand still and be everything in a scene.

Just went coast to coast and it was dreadful! The seats are basically benches; no padding yet no way to move at all. I paid for extra legroom and got that, but also although I was the 20th person on the plane, the overhead bins were already full, no power, little recline, the overhead reading light was horribly blue…

There’s probably some way this fits with MLB’s plan to have a special program to indenture young players outside the US. Gosh I’m old enough to remember  when we shared the idea that a multi-billion dollar enterprise (or person) is part of a larger economy, is connected to & supposedly supporting people and the planet,…

$65,000/year for college tuition is ridiculous. I know there are loads of people to be paid, and professors should be paid well because teaching is tough. That said, until we go back to a taxation system that recognizes how the rich got that way - by not paying taxes and by profiting from taxpayer-funded companies…

Yes, she was a piece of work, but neither Capote nor Vidal were particularly nice men either. Capote famously said that as a writer  he would take advantage of anyone who befriended him. Vidal made a career out of saying dreadful things in an amusing manner.

“In late 2011, Gates’ employees met with Epstein at Gates’ instruction, with sources telling the paper he said his shady 2007 plea deal and conviction was no worse than “stealing a bagel.”

He threatened her.

It means he threatened her unless she submitted to sex.