Views by the Bay

I’ve observed civil marriage ceremonies while on business at city hall, but the first time I attended one on purpose was last Friday. Despit...

Spam Jam 2010 (from Flickr: My PHOTOlulu) The eighth annual Spam Jam was held in Waikiki this past weekend (h/t Jeanne Cooper ). A tribute...

Apple’s astonishing rise from the ashes of tech irrelevance has been chronicled endlessly. The story about Apple’s growth has become the st...

Some of the people in my circle have formed a very negative attitude about the Tea Party movement which is attracting adherents across Ameri...

This year’s Masters golf tournament on CBS was must-see (sorry, NBC) television: a glittering leaderboard that included champions from decad...

My extended family has a genetic predisposition to gout, which is caused by the body’s inability to flush uric acid. Crystals build up in t...

One of our guinea pigs died the week before Easter. On a visit to treat an infection she was diagnosed with lymphoma. Bubbles was extraor...

Health reform legislation has made such major changes to the Internal Revenue Code (thankfully, none of these affect our 2009 filings due ne...

The following is not an April Fool's joke. When Vice-President Biden excitedly called the just-enacted health reform bill a “big f----...

The Wall Street Journal’s influential tech reviewer, Walt Mossberg, praises the iPad : I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from...

In their never-ceasing effort to sound erudite and educated , writers dress up limp prose with big words and French or Latin phrases. I kno...

On Palm Sunday, as is our custom,we began the service outdoors. Clutching our palm crosses, we marched around the block in symbolic emulatio...

Tigerhawk links to a Deloitte and Touche analysis of the health-care bill's impact on individual income taxes. In addition to higher m...

There’s no question that our household will be better off under the health-care legislation passed by the House of Representatives last nigh...

House Democrats have rejected , in my humble opinion quite wisely, using the procedural ploy of "deem-and-pass" to approve health ...