Posts Tagged ‘berkeley’

The Berkeley City Council embarasses me

January 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment

Here’s my early morning list of the jerks of the day: Tom Bates, Mayor Calvin Fong Linda Maio Darryl Moore Maxwell Anderson Dona Spring Laurie Capitelli Betty Olds Kriss Worthington Gordon Wozniak They all get it for abusing their position as a representative FOR Berkeley in order to embarass the rest of the country, which [...]

What type of government is this?

January 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Here’s part of the agenda of a recent governmental entity: 5. Discussion on a proposal to express Solidarity with Firestone Natural Rubber Company Workers in Liberia, and formulation of a recommendation to City Council. 6. Discussion on the Subcommittee on United Nations Reports and a recommendation to extend the Subcommittee through December 2008 7. Discussion [...]

Majority voters determine how smart everyone else is?

October 19th, 2006 | No Comments

Morgan Quitno Press released this list of the “smartest states” list. Without further ado, here it is, color coded to make it more fun to play with:   Looks kinda grim for all those people who mocked the “Al Gore voters are smarter than Bush voters” thingy from the past. However, Morgan Quitno has kept [...]

Liberal and Conservative Cities

August 14th, 2005 | 3 Comments

The Bay Area Center for Voting Research has come out with a list of the more liberal to conservative cities in the US.  Without any further comment, here it is: Rank City State 1 Detroit Michigan 2 Gary Indiana 3 Berkeley California 4 District of Columbia   5 Oakland California 6 Inglewood California 7 Newark [...]