This edition almost didn’t happen on the usual schedule. Out here in Calizuela I had my second long power outage of the week yesterday afternoon and evening, and hence no internet access. I figured it was PG&E taking retribution on me for saying in last week’s podcast how much I hate corporate socialist utilities like PG&E. But I got power back just in the nick of time.
And what a time it is. Now the rest of the country gets to learn about the human toothache that John and Scott have had to suffer as governor. To paraphrase Butch Cassidy’s famous epistemological query to Sundance, “Who is this guy?” There are a number of heuristics offered.
Headlines of the week:
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