College Costs - this has more to do with the easy federal loan money that hook young people into debt for decades. As money gets easier to come by for colleges, they raise costs.
CA Single Payer - you mean the plan that would cost more then the states current annual budget to implement?
CA Budget - this has more to do with the coastal are of the state able to shit gold in even a crappy economy. Although, I will give him some credit here (he'd get even more if he would drop support for the useless highspeed rail, as the only on getting rich off that is our esteemed senator Feinstein)

Sorry...but that would probably require a corporate inversion and the our draconian IRS cannot allow that.

Off topic...but yea. The late 90's Lexus' can be had for under 5k and are great buys for cheap cars.

Fuck you...try eating them cooked in bacon grease.

Governments who want to overregulate or TW/Comcast?

I've meet several vegetarians who have no problem eating meet that was the result of hunting.

The vegans though are the ones who are saying man shouldn't eat meat at all.

Then it gets saved on only a single hard drive the crashes and is recycled right before that email is needed...

When you give the police weapons of war then they will find someone to go to war with. Unfortunately, that is the general populace.

It all depends on where you live.

Even though I live in the East SF Bay (not inland either), OTA, DSL, and non-landline phone are not much of option for me. OTA I get 2 channels - QVC and HSN, so my choices are Comcast or DirectTV/Dish. Price wise, there both basically the same. I had DSL for years, but I would barely get 3megs. For a family of four w/ 2 teenagers, that just cant keep up. And as to using a cell phone instead of landline? Those hills that screww w/ OTA tv also screw with cell signal. I cannot get calls where I live, not matter the carrier (one reason I stick with sprint is the Airrave).

So I have a comcast bundle for 2 years. If they jack the prices, then i'll drop cable in a heartbeat for DirectTv again...

Actually if you look at voter participation in Oregon, its not much different then other states.

All you achieve in any system of voting that is not in-person is a high chance of fraud.

Of course you need to remember that the US government was infiltrated with communist spies and sympathizers. You only need to look at Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins and the Rosenbergs.

Photon Q is on Sprint also. It's actually a decent phone.

It's a equal protection issue. The government is arbitrarily deciding what is "good" speech from what is "bad" speech. In this case it gives what it deems "good" speech protections under trademark law.

It starts with the Redskins. What happens when it denies a trademark to a maker of a product because while that product may be legal, its deemed "bad" by government bureaucrats? Cigarettes? Soda? Fast-food?

That's former Enron advisor Paul Krugman....

I still use Excel 2003 for 90% of my excel work as I still have several custom toolbars that cannot be recreated w/ the ribbon. Being able to do many repeated functions w/ one click makes a world of difference.