Global Wahrman

draft I may have sampling error but I think what the State of California did was to partition up their vaccine supply by the total populatio...

draft I expect that various services that are required by law to be provided at a certain level of competence to the citizen. I...

draft I loved this place as a kid. Someone has made a web page dedicated to it. http://www.whmsicl.cnc.net/CMSI.html ...

One of the great advantages of using mass transit, or at least transit, in this case Amtrak, to go back and forth between LA and Oceansid...

“The law must be honest, just, reasonable and according to the ways of the people. It must meet their needs and speak plainly, so that al...

It does my heart good to see people of our society reach out to the poor and disenfranchised and help them in their misery.   When it is ...

[Apparently there may be 80 million Methodists worldwide, but about 10 million in the USA.  See other thoughts at the end of the post]. ...

Watching a city build a transit system is like watching the grass grow. Not much seems to be happening on any given day but things are ...

A few nights ago, I came back from Los Angeles by train to Oceanside and discovered that I had left my car keys somewhere else. It was 8...

It is often said that US Government Agencies can not work together well.  Here we have a case where two agencies, the Dept of Justice and ...

I was delignted that Dave Moon, formerly of the MIT AI Lab and Symbolics, commented on my Disneyland / Tomorrowland post. He wrote:  ...

In Southern California, we take any efforts to build a mass transit system personally. How dare the swinish scum-sucking politicians use...

Reading the biography of George Orwell (aka Eric Blair) last night was very refreshing. The number of times he basically ran out of money...

How should Americans celebrate the Fourth of July? Should it be in comfortable, respectable, middle-class suburbs with tepid, but saf...

Many readers may wonder why anyone would care that Kate Mantillini's closed suddenly after many years of service.    Kate's became...

Some things mortal man was not meant to understand.  I had occasion yesterday to test an assumption I had made about the Red Line, th...