It looks like California’s so-called assault weapon ban is numbered. A federal judge overturned the state’s law banning such weapons as a violation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. From the Associated Press: A federal judge Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear...
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California passes AB5 to reclassify Uber and Lyft drivers as employees
California lawmakers passed AB5. It's a law that will severely impact gig workers in the state working as independent contractors....
Read MoreUber drivers in Los Angeles are planning a 25-hour strike
Uber drivers in Los Angeles are losing their collective minds. At least some of them. As a way of protesting new rate fees Uber is rolling out in Los Angeles and Orange County, drivers there are going on a 25-hour strike beginning midnight tonight. Why a 25-hour strike? Because Uber is lowering the per mile...
Read MoreCharles Manson 1934 – 2017
Charles Manson is finally dead. He was 83. I’m old enough to remember the fear he and his “family” caused the public. Charles Manson was clearly insane, yet he was condemned to rot in prison, not a mental institution for the rest of his natural life. He also wasn’t sent to the gas chamber, something...
Read MoreThis is the worst obituary ever written
I can’t imagine what would motive someone to write such a hateful, mean spirited obituary. The following was written by the dead woman’s daughter and appeared in the Vallejo, California Times-Herald: Dolores Aguilar 1929 – Aug. 7, 2008 Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico, left us on August 7, 2008. She will be...
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