Author: janinsanfran

Cross posted at Happening-Here So few of us now belong to a labor organization that most of us probably don’t even ask ourselves that question. If we do, we may think a union is just something that takes a bite out of our...

It isn’t the descriptions of the torture techniques that haunt me. It is this: When properly used, the techniques appear to be closely monitored and are signed off on in writing on a case-by-case, technique-by-technique...

This morning California’s newspapers put photos of Governor Schwarzenegger on the front pages, even in abject defeat. They should have pictured the voters, or if they could have found the image for it, the process of a...

I’ve been out of California for 10 days, but the Governator has been right with me. Nearly every time I opened an LA Times article on the web, I saw the ad. Today the same paper tells me the steady diet of “all Arnold, all the time” is over.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked TV stations Friday to remove ads that feature him making a personal appeal to California voters — an acknowledgment, analysts said, that one of the world’s most recognized figures has become a weak salesman for his own agenda.

An avid pitchman his entire adult life — selling everything from gym bags to action movies — Schwarzenegger nevertheless now will rely on “ordinary” supporters to promote his four Nov. 8 ballot initiatives in ads, his campaign said.

For a little while today, this ad really did appear on eBay — all too briefly. I guess eBay didn’t want to make a political point for the California Nurses Association who put up the item. You can see CNA’s...