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Yes on 1A (extending tax increases).
Maybe on 1B (restoring school funding).
No on 1C (borrowing against future lottery revenues).
Yes on 1D and 1E (cancelling guaranteed funding streams for children’s programs and mental health).
No on 1F (a meaningless insult directed at the legislature.)
Archive for May, 2009
May 18th, 2009
Category: California Politics
May 18th, 2009
Has Barack Obama deliberately hung Dawn Johnsen out to dry?
May 18th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Apparently. Now the problem is convincing the Sri Lankan government and army that the Tamils are citizens, not enemies.
May 17th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
Prosecutors who resist DNA post-conviction DNA testing are agents of injustice.
May 17th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
I’ve now lived here for fourteen years, and just now experienced my first significant earthquake. The shaking lasted perhaps half a minute; I didn’t lose any pottery. Apparently the epicenter was just east of LAX, with a magnitude of 5.0. No reports of damage close to the epicenter. So now I know what it feels [...]
May 17th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Religious fanatics with nukes. Scary idea. And no, I don’t mean Iran.
May 17th, 2009
Category: Science and its methods
An anecdote illustrates the scariest aspect of the human subjects protection process.