Views by the Bay

As noted previously , a geologist who has made some accurate predictions said that a major earthquake would hit the West Coast during the pa...

The first American missiles were fired only a few days ago, and already the battle for Libya--or whatever the historians end up calling it--...

The United States has initiated military action in a third Middle Eastern country. Let's acknowledge: 1) Colonel Qaddafi is a brutal d...

While California worry-warts are scooping up iodine tablets despite assurances that the radiation from Japan is negligible , IMHO a much gre...

During the 1970's and 1980's everyone in business studied the "Japanese way." Japanese companies ran rings around their co...

Hawaii has suffered property damage, mostly to piers and boats, from the tsunami. No injuries or deaths have been reported. [Update: the Hon...

Bay Area residents who have difficulty falling asleep will have real trouble tonight. The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan last ni...

Flipping pancakes The church decided to serve pancakes on Sunday night instead of Tuesday. It was a prescient choice, as more families sh...

Denting benearth the stars The advantage of living in the same house for many years is that I know where everything is. There's no pr...

the best attitude is to laugh about it (sorry, iPad and iPhone users, the video is in Flash).

Yesterday was the deadline for filing Form 1096. (Nearly everyone receives various Form 1099s that report their interest and other income; F...

I don't know why conservatives are getting so exercised about State Legislators not reporting for duty (who would want to emulate John K...

From all reports (I haven't yet seen it yet) The King's Speech is well-scripted, well-acted and deserving of its Best Picture Oscar...

Yesterday I received this message from a former business colleague: Sorry I didn't inform you about my trip in Cyprus for a program, I...

Today Amazon introduced its streaming-video service , a shot across the bow of Netflix. Amazon streaming video is free to Amazon Prime ($79...