by News Staff | Dec 11, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Did you ever think it would come to this? A court has issued an order to halt robocalls. Those are the computerized calls that we all hate to receive and mostly hang up on. Apparently some don’t and have gone down the road to the cleaners with bogus deals. The...
by News Staff | Dec 8, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
We’ve heard of lost pets, but a pony wandering in traffic in Norwalk? Strange, for sure. Maybe it’s a sign of the times. Maybe the owner just couldn’t afford all those oats and hay anymore. We know Shetland ponies can be somewhat snippy, but...
by News Staff | Dec 1, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Feel kinda sleepy today? You might be the one in nine American adults who doesn’t get enough sleep on a regular basis. Wow. That’s a lot of people who drag around on half-full, so to speak. We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom get plenty of shut-eye. We...
by News Staff | Nov 24, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
In the Poor Baby Department, the State Legislature whined to Attorney General Jerry Brown recently that the bad old State Compensation Panel would illegally cut their pay following next year’s election. This, after they whacked and slashed benefits for the poor,...
by News Staff | Nov 20, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Our biggest problem with Sarah Palin? Immaturity. Come on, already. If you’re a public figure and you pose for a kind of silly cheesecake shot in shorts, expect it to go public. Palin now whines about her photo on the cover of Newsweek. She scrambles and grubs...
by News Staff | Nov 17, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
The good, I guess, news this week – explorers have found water on the moon which gives hope for a moon colony some day. Woo-hoo. We can live on the moon. How about we figure out what’s up with earth before we abandon it and mess up another planet?Okay. We...