More musing on news stories ...

These are sort of twin postings... the first one is about how Charlie Sheen's one man show isn't funny. That's right, watching a mentally ill man spiral out of control isn't actually that funny, and/or you can't plan a tour around someone's manic bouts. It is indicative of all that is wrong with our society that folks could admit they came to see the man spiral and complained when he wasn't funny. The other is for Sheen's family that is apparently not in much control themselves. I didn't post his mother's rant because it was really almost too painful to read her denial. I was hoping for more from his pop, but perhaps that's just the man he plays on TV.

Six Feet Under Redux... in NJ and not for TV. This article is such a weird mix of "natural" burial, family togetherness and frugality that I am not really sure what to say about it ... take a read.

LA Times gauges the fall out from their "Grading the Teacher" article...with good and bad unintended consequences, and the reality that knowledge doesn't necessarily change systems.

Woke up to this story on the radio yesterday. I thought maybe I was dreaming but it is actually right there on NPR. It's about the brain benefits of being BILINGUAL... hahaha, imagine that! And here we've been taught that being mono-lingual English made one a KING!

I am not naming the asshole, but so glad he finally decided to plead guilty. May he rot in jail.

Oh... Steve Lopez riling up the seniors with talk of Proposition 13...someone's gotta be willing to talk about it.

Wish I had more time to write... got a lot of stories from California to tell and some to show...