The LA Times has a really thought provoking article on the media, Trashing the Media. The LA Times requires registration, so be aware of that if it comes up.

This paragraph really stood out for me.

"The Left is sort of responding to a world that isn't even here anymore," Schechter says. "They tend to look at power as being government power, whereas the real power shift has been from the public to the private, which operates more subtly, with much less accountability, more in the shadows. The government is not the driver. Market values are the driver."

If politics is all about the payback, as a female voter I think I've gotten my money's worth by voting for Gavin Newsome.

Mayor Newsome is endorsing a woman to head the San Francisco Fire Fighters; Newsom names female fire chief: Historic choice for big-city department.

Mayor Newsome is also appointing a non-white woman to the Board of Education; S.F school board to get new member Bernal Heights consultant replaces departing Cruz.

More women in positions of power in the city and county of San Francisco is worth the price of my vote any day!

There's chatter all over the internet that the next terrorist attack will be in Europe. If that happens, I wonder what the European will say about it all.

Some in the world press said that 9/11 was the USA's fault. I wonder whose fault will it be if there is a similar 9/11 attack on Europe?

The following is from an article in the NY Times on classic alternative rock programming: "It is only natural to introduce a classic alternative format because people are usually most excited about the music they heard as teenagers, said Don Yates, the music director at Seattle's KEXP-FM."

This is where I guess I'm not not like most people. I mean, sure I love listening to music from my youth, but not all the time. It's fun to listen to music from college and even high school, because then the memories start and you can relive your youth.

But after awhile, I start to wonder if why I'm doing that. My best glory days aren't behind me, they're ahead of me always. Sure the past was fun, but it was also sometimes very painful. I like the present and the future much, much better. It's unexplored, it's new, and that's exciting. Besides too much nostalgia makes me feel ancient and used up, and who wants to feel that way.

So I listen to the new music and create new glory day memories every year, and no matter what the radio is playing I'm totally loving it.