Living here on the upper lip of the Bay Area, like a beauty mark, it’s easy to take one-day excursions around the rim without a lot of planning. Susan and I wake up sometimes with the urge to go do, but we can’t do new stuff all the darn time. “I gotta get my steps,” […]
The 1-percenters
THIS IS NOT ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY. Doesn’t involve Warren Buffett or the Koch brothers (er, not directly anyway). This is about oil train safety. Another crude oil train just derailed this past week, exploding cars dumped into the James River in Lynchburg, Va. Could have been much worse. A 100-car oil train right in town. […]