This weekend I read a very sobering Time story on the war in Iraq, and how conditions are so deplorable there that our men and women in uniform have no choice but to take mood-altering drugs to cope with them. I wasn’t shocked to learn this, it only fed my outrage over this war.
If Prozac [...]

Is the champagne premature?
Despite being 3 percentage points shy of a clean victory, and apparently unfazed by statistical facts stating he would need an odds- defying—but theoretically possible—64% of the uncounted vote to win the Larry O’Brien award of Sac politics, Kevin Johnson all but declared himself the victor of Sacramento’s 2008 mayoral election yesterday.

David Blane eat your heart out. First she dodged FEMA, then she dodged her constituents’ legitimate questions about her record, last night she dodged a falling a tree, and now she has dazzled us with an act Houdini would be proud of: Dodging the popular vote.
Yep, Sacramento handed Heathers yet another mulligan last night. Even [...]

I originally started this site on my own volition as a rebuttal to the 447 smear campaign against Kevin Johnson, someone I believe to be a very good man with a very good heart who—by his own admission—used bad judgment at one point in his otherwise extraordinary career.
You can talk all the garbage you want [...]

Today the Bee announced Robert Lee Drumgoole will be running as a write-in candidate for the mayoral election. Drumgoole was smart to wait until the last possible day. Otherwise he probably would have been running with Kevin.. for his life.

While Sacramento may have grabbed an 8th place award for livable cities, the election season bloopers we’ve witnessed in recent weeks definitely won’t win us a best screenplay award to go with it. Voters have stood by in awe, watching Fargo and supporters fling mud pie after mud pie out of her city hall bunker [...]

Feeling visual today. Here’s something to ponder, especially for those wearing rose-tinted contacts. I thought it would be interesting to take a city like San Jose and compare crime rates with safe ol’ Sacramento.
I created the accompanying chart using the FBI’s crime stats for California. It’s important to keep in mind that San Jose’s [...]

JUST after we reported Sac is now worse than LA in terms of carbon footprint per capita, we now treat you to some good news! Kiplinger’s just released their list of top most livable cities, and they have awarded Sacramento, CA.. drum roll.. cmon.. have some fun…. the coveted eighth best livable city ribbon. WOW! [...]

In a cleverly-worded article today, the Sacramento Biz Journal is reporting that Sacramento has garnered the distinguished honor of having the “12th best carbon footprint” in the country. What their headline doesn’t say is that Sac is ten places behind Los Angeles! That means Sac residents are spewing more filth into the air per person [...]