Uneasy Rhetoric

I’ve added the Nonprofit Curmudgeon to the blogroll on the strength of a couple of posts. First, the Curmudgeon asks ” Are nonprofit agencies the customers from hell?” The answer is a resounding “yes!” The stringing along nonprofits do of vendors is just sad.
My favorite situation: nonprofit N asks vendor V [...]

It’s time for the California State Fair! I don’t know whether the fair is fun or just stressful, but I sort-of enjoyed it enough last year that I’ll probably go back, and, like last year, I’ll take the bus.
For $3 round trip, as opposed to $7 in parking plus gas and aggravation, you can [...]

Hybrids don’t belong in the carpool lane. There. I said it.
Carpool lanes are not only air quality tools, they are traffic alleviation tools. Allowing a hybrid with only one person in it into a carpool lane does nothing to improve air quality beyond what the hybrid is already doing simply by existing, [...]

According to the Washington Times (yeah, requires reg), Bob Woodward expects the 2008 presidential campaign to be a race between Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton. I won’t go in to the pros and cons of an H. Clinton campaign right now, but Cheney?
Bob, I don’t care if you are the Watergate journalist, you’re wrong. [...]

I’ve heard all of the complaints about Southwest Airlines, mostly stemming from the cattle-call way they board planes. Frankly, I’ve had my share of bad experiences on Southwest, but since about 90% of my flights are on that airline, one would expect a few.
But they’ve just made my life a little better. They [...]