by News Staff | Dec 28, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Not to start your almost new year off with a fit of anger, but we just want to note that Congress is in session something like 137 days per year. The Senate, 158. That’s not to say they actually work all of those days. Poor babies. All that vacation time to...
by News Staff | Dec 21, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Where bureaucracy meets Hollywood. Not a bad intersection. One decorated with wit, humor, and cigars. For Mammoth Mountain’s CEO, last week saw moments of that intersection. As we mentioned Friday, Rusty Gregory helped with a kind of roast of Governor Arnold...
by News Staff | Dec 17, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Did you see our new Speaker of the House on 60 Minutes? John Boehner cried three or four times during the interview. After that show, we should all worry about the congressional leader’s mental stability. If he is so emotionally out of balance that he...
by News Staff | Dec 14, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
We see and hear lots of polarized views on our website and in conversations. We ran across a website that has this nailed and explains how dual views are not mutually exclusive. In other words, it’s okay to think conservatively and liberally. Michael Laser...
by News Staff | Dec 10, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
We saw a bumper sticker on the back of a truck the other day. It said, “Be careful when you hate. It might affect someone you love.” We like that. Sometimes the comments on our website drip with loathing of other people. Our view? Hate is not an option....
by News Staff | Dec 7, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
How many times have people up here said about people down there in Los Angeles that they should desalinate the ocean water instead of draining our streams and underground? So, we read an LA Times headline with some disgust. It said, “The ocean could ease our...