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The government may soon tell us what kind of light bulb we can use.
Under a bill that California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Los Angeles, plans to introduce, the electricity-wasting incandescent bulb would be banned and replaced by energy efficient compact flourescents.
I like the flourescents bulbs and have been using them to replace incandescent bulbs in my home. I like it that that was my idea. I'm not sure I like it as much when it's a government requirement.
I'm thinking...
This is one of those hard choices.
Do we restrict people in order to preserve national parks such as Yosemite?
And on what information would such a policy be based.
Those are issues raised in a story by Associated Press reporter Garance Burke about a lawsuit to halt development at Yosemite National Park.
The government is resisting the lawsuit because it doesn't want a court order to limit the number of visitors each day to the park, an order that might be extended to other parks....
Reporter John Russell of The Indianapolis Star has written a story about the growing possibility that drug ads will be curbed or banned.
You know, the ones about insomnia, allergies, high cholesterol, irritable bowels, restless leg syndrome (who even knew about that before the ads), acid reflux, defective working parts on men and a host of other maladies.
The $4 billion a year advertising boon has critics who feel the ads cause consumers to pressure doctors to prescribe...
Yes, "An Inconvenient Truth," the Al Gore-narrated movie about global warming, has been nominated for a Academy Awards, but that doesn't mean it should be shown to school children, a Washington father has argued.
A protest by Frosty Hardison of Federal Way, which is south of Seattle, led to some roadblocks to the showing of the movie to his 7th grade daughter. Gore, a Democrat, is a former vice president.
Hardison, 43, an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a...
I know that Mattloch has posted a State of the Union blog thread, and I don't mean to really have dueling threads, but I have been assigned to do this with some links.
I've titled this state of what union because despite some applause on both sides of the aisle for President Bush's speech, there sure seemed to be divisiveness during and after his talk.
For example, I noticed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, wasn't quite in tune with the applause and the standing...
Census reports suggest that for the first time, more women are living in households without a man.
What, don't they realize they really need us? To loosen the jar tops, if nothing else.
For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results.
In 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000.
Coupled...
Visceral reactions to news stories are what reporters hope for.
And I had one on the defense motion in the Vincent Brothers case to not only move the quintuple-murder trial out of Kern County, but specifically to Los Angeles County.
I've seen jurors in Los Angeles County. They are loony. And that's why the defense wants to go there.
The defense is properly seeking a change of venue. They won't get one, but they have to try.
Vincent Brothers is accused of the shooting deaths of his...
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