Views by the Bay

Ash Kalra (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) The arguments for and against rent control are well known (we last posted about them in 2019 )...

Hazard when walking the dog in Foster City: coyotes After breakfast I go over to my son's place to walk his dog. It's a win-win: my...

Visibility (the Secchi depth) is decreasing ( UC Davis ) The waters of Lake Tahoe are renowned for their clarity, but in recent decades mu...

Pope Francis in Krakow, 2016 (CNS/Paul Haring) Although Pope Francis espoused political positions that were the opposite of President Trump...

One sign that a society is affluent is the large number of offerings for a single class of product. For example, the bread aisle has over a...

The Accountant 2: Braxton and Christian bonding (Page/WSJ) We first saw the 2016 film, The Accountant , in 2017 . Ben Affleck plays the tit...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the only delivery service that handles cremated remains "as others refuse to transport wha...

Gov. Newsom and Pres. Trump on 1/24/25 ( Politico ) California is still doing some things right. SF Chronicle: California is now 4th large...

Bangkok's Terminal 21 (Andrew Chamings/SFGATE) San Francisco's busiest and arguably most beautiful mall is in Thailand .[bold adde...

Pope Francis (left) with his predecessor Benedict XVI in 2016 (Osservatore Romano/Reuters/WSJ ) Pope Francis , who died today, served for 1...

Unable to attend my church's regular Easter service at 10, I went hunting for an Episcopal sunrise service. The nearest was the Church ...

(Image from Cleveland Clinic) Your humble blogger volunteered to be part of a medical study. However, in order to qualify I had to submit t...

The Good Friday service is a meditation on Jesus' death and sacrifice. This evening the chaplain's homily emphasized a topic that I...

Antonio Gramsci  For more than half a century America has been arguably a conservative-majority country. Yet liberals have controlled what ...

(Meyer/Bay Area News Group) It's big, complicated, and causes more accidents, but traffic experts call it a success . [bold added] Whe...