Views by the Bay

There are signs that business is improving: co-workers are changing jobs, and each open position no longer attracts a raft of overqualified ...

Our home Internet access is still via AOL dial-up. I've been resisting signing up for cable or DSL for admittedly flimsy reasons: Each m...

One of the great things about living in the United States is that we can disagree without killing each other. We can have widely divergent b...

A couple of months ago the police smashed through our fence in hot pursuit of a burglary suspect. They told us that the Parks and Recreat...

While the San Francisco Giants were losing, 8-1, to the Pittsburgh Pirates at SBC Park today, just across McCovey cove,in Barry Bonds'...

I've been re-reading the lies, in his own words, that the President of the United States used to justify military action against Iraq. B...

The bronze in the park next to the Pyramid often brings a smile to picnickers.

There’s a scene in the movie Crocodile Dundee in which a New York City mugger pulls a knife on the Australian outback character played by P...

Prisoner Abuse Abu Ghraib prison abuses-->hazing Fallujah murders, burning, dismemberment-->lynching Both are bad, which is worse?...

Shopping for Mother’s Day cards in Salt Lake City, I came across this display in Wal-Mart: My sister-in-law and her husband fled the Bay Are...

Twice I’ve had a problem at Best Buy, and twice I’ve been pleased with the outcome. The first occurred when I switched from cable (Comca...

A statue of Willie Mays greets the fans at the entrance to SBC Park. The local preacher likes to organize outings to Giants baseball games, ...

Along with all the other guys in the dorm I felt trepidation when the envelope came from the Selective Service. The draft lottery randomly ...

The lake at Berryessa Community Center Yesterday’s little league Challengers baseball game was held at the Berryessa Community Center in Mil...

The morning saw an example of error and recovery, with a bit of luck thrown in. Delayed longer than expected due to the necessity of finding...