If you do much driving around the U.S. you quickly understand that the posted speed limit signs on most major highways are two things:  ridiculously slow given modern car technology and breaking; and consequently, the signs are generally and widely ignored.  This is a bad thing.  Not for the reason people generally think though, which […]

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Subscription numbers are out for newspapers nationwide showing an average national decline in readership by 2.2%.  The L.A. Times did worst in the last year among the top ten papers, losing 5.4% of its subscribers in the past year and 17.9% in the last two years.  Looks like the LA Times is continuing to […]

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Sometimes people say things don’t really mean to say, reveal truths they’d rather not because they don’t understand what it is they have also said besides what they intended.  People let things slip now and then.  Its those moments of candor that you have to grasp if you are to understand what someone is really […]

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last night announced his plan to ask the California State Legislature to essentially grant himself as Mayor control over the L.A. Unified School District.  The LAUSD is a gigantic bureaucracy that proves everyday just about every folk saying about incompetent bureaucracies.  This may seem like a harsh statement but it […]

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The state of California and essentially all of the smaller governments inside like Counties and Cities are not ready for a flu crisis… and they never will be.  Today’s article in the LA Times goes into detail on all the reasons why we will never be "ready", ready meaning being able to give medical […]

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The recent furor surrounding Rob Reiner as Chairman of the California First 5 commission using his position to fund advertising to support his Initiative for universal pre-school has raised a lot of attention for the issue.  Lots of it not good attention and some are reacting untypically this political season, perhaps because of the stench […]

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State legislators of both parties have voted to audit First 5 in the interests of good and honest government, while the Sacramento District Attorney is seriously considering action separately.  And despite broad agreement in the State that Reiner lead the First 5 committee to do imporper and/or illegal things, our Governor Arnold "The Terminator" Schwarzenager […]

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One of the more under reported elements of the Bird Flu story has been the economic impact on the regions with reported infected bird stock.  Fear of the Bird Flu could cripple economies even if it doesn’t make the leap to a human-human spread disease if public information efforts do not succeed in convincing the […]

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Joes Stein of the LA Times, our local newspaper that is the reliable beacon of the Left, has an opinion piece published today that represents the much more honest and open truth about how the Left feels about ’supporting the troops’.  Lets be serious about this, does it really make sense to support troops who […]

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Its an old argument:  Is the media biased to the Left or unbiased like they claim?  The Right says biased, the Left says either no or biased to the Right.  What has been missing has been a systematic examination of the the output of the media to quantify the reality of their bias or lack […]

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Like the vast majority of the big media, the Los Angeles Times (LAT) is a dying business.  There have been endless articles written about why the industry as a whole is dying, and they have some merit.  The LAT is a unique beast though and there are others like Patterico and Hugh Hewitt who have […]

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How the Editor of the L.A. Times could gain customers by addressing the perception of bias.

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