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...again up to Proposition 80 on the Nov. 8 ballot, with 33 more initiatives circulating or pending at the Attorney General’s Office. The blazing pace of initiatives is a clear indicator that something is gravely wrong. California politics are so backward that the only way many pieces of legislation become law is by avoiding the legislature and the governor altogether. So special interests decide to go directly to the people with a ballot initiative. This system of “governance” is tremendously flawed, top to bottom.For one, the deluge of ballot initiatives burns...
...early chapters of The Beatles are irresistible; they have the hypnotic effect of a film clip run backward, the separate pieces of a single whole coming together from the hard-luck streets of Liverpool. All four Beatles were hard cases of various kinds, but Ringo takes the prize. Poor, sickly and essentially fatherless, he took up drumming as therapy while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis, pounding on his bedside cabinet using two cotton bobbins for drumsticks...
...first heard the notion of wirelessly broadcasting music from an iPod to an audio system, in essence turning the iPod itself into a remote control. This concept was a response to the various competing remote controls for iPod that never quite got beyond Play, Pause and the forward and backward skipping of tracks. Instead of devising some weird, wild way to recreate the iPod interface, a wireless music streamer simply uses...
...York as a boy, who had lived and toiled in the back of a laundromat and worked his way up to become a successful insurance business owner and community leader, the prospect of his oldest child marrying a black American man was not just shameful, it was a step backward...
...your new book, you wax poetic about doing laundry. Why? It may be that part of my pleasure is the pleasure of the released prisoner. I remember very well what it was like in my childhood in a very backward part of the country [Appalachia]. We had this tub with a wringer, and it was an ordeal. The day my mother did wash, she was irritable because she was tired and she hated it. The rain would come, and the wash wouldn't dry. So when you finally have these machines and all you do is make decisions and push...