Born a 10th generation Oregonian, (5 generations on each side) I have an enthusiasm for learning and teaching new things. After a ten year mini career in the dental field I moved on to research and embraced the social web. Though the internet is far too large for any one person to claim to be an expert, I can hold my own with the latest trends.
I enjoy researching and writing blogs. As the "Internet Program Director" for myMotherLode.com since 2008, I update the website and have a wide variety of interests. There is always something entertaining, educational or inspirational to share.
Holman Jenkins recently opined that “California politicians spend much of their time obsessing about a climate change problem they can’t fix” as California “…accounts for less than one tenth of one percent of global emissions.”
With AB 331, California high schools are looking to the New York times “1619 Project” of revisionist American history as a new part of the curriculum, mandating ethnic studies to “build new possibilities for post-imperial life that promotes collective narratives of transformative resistance.” Whatever that means. This would include writing a paper on events “that have led to Jewish and Irish Americans gaining racial privilege.” We’re sure that’ll be news to those who recall the infamous “Irish need not apply” signs in business windows at the turn of the century and also to those whose synagogues have been defaced or destroyed.
Gov Gavin Newsome's executive order to require all passenger cars sold in the state to be zero emission vehicles by 2035 is the apex of hubris and shortsightedness given that, A, not everyone to drive an electric vehicle to begin with and B, where are all these EVs going to be plugged in at urban apartment houses and C, how are they going to recharge when PG&E shuts off the power on red flag days because of previous state green mandates that have crippled the utility's ability to maintain their infrastructure.
