Views by the Bay

Two hours in, from the top of the trail A Mitt being in the news reminds me: Ever since I've taken up hiking , I've noticed a t...

Another reason to wear cotton: Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be enteri...

The cold vanished overnight. It was warm enough to amble about in T-shirt and shorts. Along the levee bikers and bladers whizzed by, forcin...

The lower tax rate on long-term capital gains has entered the national conversation. Last year Warren Buffett called for higher taxes on th...

Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on the mid-1970's TV series Welcome Back, Kotter , is dead . The mean streets of New York City we...

There were 80 of us in the Jury Assembly Room yesterday morning. 55 names, none of them mine, were called; they shuffled upstairs to be inte...

Sta Puft vs Newt: from Huffington Post During my weaker moments my reptilian brain would like to see Newt Gingrich become President. Newt...

State of the Union, 2/24/09 , the promise of 3,500,000 jobs: Over the next 2 years, this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs [bold ad...

Apple's earnings per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2011: Company forecast $ 9.30 Analyst forecast $10.08 Actual results $1...

Mitt and Ann Romney have released their tax return for 2010 and a detailed estimate of their 2011 taxes. Here's my 30-minute take on a...

With little experience he was given tremendous responsibility. In the national spotlight he made disastrous decisions at critical junctures....

Per the Associated Press : The Year of the Dragon begins Monday [today], and the Chinese believe that babies born in this iteration of t...

When one-of-a-kind leaders are debilitated by disease or age, it's often said that "we'd rather have 10% of X than 100% of anyb...

After enduring years of volatility I sold my position in Google at $520 last May. (I regretfully concluded that I didn't understand the...

I met up with T at the same place, the Sunflower Restaurant , nearly two years after our last get-together . (The Sunflower, BTW, was very c...