Views by the Bay

St. Augustine  (d. 430) wrote extensively on predestination For millennia philosophers and priests have tried to reconcile free will wit...

(Chronicle photo) President Trump's sculpture is on tour at the San Francisco wax museum . Constructing his waxwork posed unique cha...

One of the principal reasons for the stock market rout is the Federal Reserve's higher-interest rate policy . [bold added] Fed official...

And now for something beautiful: a flash orchestra playing Beethoven's 9th in the Omotesando Hills shopping center in Tokyo. The musici...

Last January it was obvious to your humble blogger that Bay Area real estate was headed for a fall, but I just didn't know when: As o...

Former SF-Mayor and Assembly Speaker Willie Brown has advice for Republicans . (Appreciate that his tone is not snarky or insincere, as is m...

This is too easy. Why didn't you put ginkgo in the gingko supplement ? Gingko supplements are extracted from leaves. Two dietary ...

The "cruel irony" of the Bay Area's food insecure : [bold added] While their income doesn’t keep up with the cost of living ...

President Trump's tweet on November 10th, two days after the Camp Fire destroyed most of Paradise, CA, sparked controversy: There is...

Dancing, singing, eating, and pledging Speaking of philanthropic commitments (see previous post below), tonight was the church's ann...

Processing receipts a week before Thanksgiving In 2017 we signed up for and delivered four boxes to the CALL Primrose fill-a-box-feed-...

Jack Kirby and Stan Lee (Marvel Silver Age) The laudatory obituaries are piling up for Stan Lee (1922-2018), but I confess that I didn...

On Saturday you could look directly at the sun. Two days after the fire began 200 miles away, the smell of burning wood permeated the P...

Flanders Fields ( U of Texas NROTC photo) When I was in high school World War I was ancient history. (It's disconcerting to realize ...

The guns fell silent on the Western Front one hundred years ago, but the effects of World War I continue to be felt in the church today: [b...