Views by the Bay

When I was ten, I tackled James Michener’s Hawaii . It had been a huge bestseller, both in the newly minted 50th State and on the Mainland. ...

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom is an odd amalgam of thrill rides and animal exhibits. When Marine World departed from its costly Peninsula digs...

One of the reasons bloggers can’t enter politics---besides our their obvious personal deficiencies---is that there’s too much of a paper e...

The Post writes about how Barack Obama’s Hawaiian childhood shaped the man. The article helped me to understand him better. He was born in ...

Along with other exasperated parents, I stood in line for nearly an hour at Staples to buy school supplies for the youngster. We couldn'...

As a blogging tool the iPhone leaves a great deal to be desired. Touch-typing skills slow to 10% of normal. The iPhone doesn't permit cu...

Rick Warren (“The Purpose-Driven Life”) of the Saddleback Church interviewed Barack Obama and John McCain tonight . My political views are m...

Barack Obama’s life is being made into a movie . And why not? His multicultural background, his meteoric rise in the world of politics, his ...

Decades ago my finance professors lectured that it was impossible to outwit the market, but I stubbornly resisted their teaching. I refused ...

Happy birthday to my kid brother, born on this luckiest of dates 48 years ago. Fortune always seemed to favor him. He was the handsomest of ...

iPhone and Ferry Building It was time to pick up my ticket to the 21st century. After work on Tuesday I hurried to the San Mateo Cingular o...

Our new blank checks arrived over the weekend in a flat cellophane mailer, not in the convenient cardboard storage boxes that we had grown a...

The cable box cover is an ugly lime green. One afternoon it appeared on our lawn, and I became acquainted with the term "easement"...

For the first time in my life I donated to a candidate for political office. No, it wasn’t a large sum. (It was $199---one dollar below the...

Two months ago I posted without comment this observation by economist Thomas Sowell: If Barack Obama had given a speech on bowling, it might...