The libertarian magazine Reason has published a list of the biggest nanny cities [http://reason.com/news/show/127481.html] in the country. The results for the big cities on the Pacific Coast are interesting. Portland is caught in a kind of "nanny sandwich" between Seattle and San Francisco. Apparent
Is beer the sleeper issue of the 2008 election? The folks at FiveThirtyEight seem to think so [http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/07/sleeper-issue-of-2008-beer.html]. Apparently, Cindy McCain's company, Hensley & Co. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensley_&_Co.], is set to make at least a million bu
A number of bloggers have been looking into the Southern California habit of putting "the" in front of freeway numbers, as in "don't take The 5 because it's really backed up." People in other parts of California are alarmed at the spread of the habit throughout the state, and I've heard it creeping
Like the neighbors I rarely see until July, bats are making their appearances during the drawn-out summer evenings here in the Northwest. Flitting in the dusk, these nocturnal and flying mammals that use ultrasonic calls outside of our hearing range inhabit a world quite separate from mine. But Bats
Try as they might, some motorists can't outsmart officials when it comes to custom license numbers. On the other hand, sometimes seemingly illicit alphanumerics are actually demonstrably proper.
