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Stateside: Eeeeeen Viiiiiiiiivo!
Monday, 21 June 2010, 9:35 pm | Rosalea Barker
Luckily for me, one of the free-to-air Spanish-language channels in my area is carrying the FIFA World Cup live. There’s a double advantage to that: not being able to understand what the announcers are saying, I don’t get distracted by daft commentary; ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: The Devil’s Diarrhea
Friday, 18 June 2010, 12:36 pm | Rosalea Barker
Back in the 70s, the Venezuelan delegate to OPEC famously referred to oil as “the Devil’s excrement”. Watching the live video that BP is supplying, it’s easy to conclude that the Devil has a bad case of Montezuma’s Revenge. But don’t go ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Nebraska
Friday, 11 June 2010, 7:05 pm | Rosalea Barker
This being the Cornhusker State, it’s time to husk some corn—of the sentimental kind. Nebraska entered the US as the 37th state on March 1, 1867, just under two years after the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on May 10, 1865, ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: I, technofool
Monday, 31 May 2010, 10:41 am | Rosalea Barker
About three weeks ago, the smartphone I use as a modem stopped being recognized by my laptop. It’s the only connection I have to the Internet, so I called Verizon’s helpdesk to try and solve the problem. Amazingly, the person I spoke to said I should ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea Barker: Nevada
Monday, 10 May 2010, 8:49 pm | Rosalea Barker
Who is Nevada Bill, and why did he get screwed? Trick question! “Screw Nevada Bill” is the nickname the Silver State’s residents gave to a 1987 Congressional bill that singled out Yucca Mountain, NV, as the sole site the federal government would ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: The weekend that wuz
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 8:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
On the last weekend of April, a bandit leaned out of a stage coach and dragged me inside: Wells Fargo Bank finally took over all of Wachovia Bank’s branches in California. My hole in the wall is now just a hole in the wall. Wachovia, which was big back ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: West Virginia
Monday, 26 April 2010, 9:55 am | Rosalea Barker
RIP Van Winkle! I’m sorry that your argument did not prevail; I would rather have liked to visit the Great State of Kanawha some day. (If only to see if that’s where Our Kiri came from.) But I jest, and West Virginia is no jesting matter. The 35th ... More >>
Stateside: California Democratic Party Convention
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 3:22 pm | Rosalea Barker
The California Democratic Party’s state convention was held in Los Angeles over the weekend. I was only able to be there for Saturday. The convention hotel was the FW Marriott at LA Live—LA Live being the part of downtown that is home to various ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: That 70s stuff
Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:25 am | Rosalea Barker
Golly! I haven’t felt this wanted since I was robbing stage coaches on their way out of Dodge City. The small union to which I pay a Fair Share Fee has suffered an internal revolt on the part of its full-dues-paying members, who are seeking to have ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Kansas
Monday, 29 March 2010, 6:31 pm | Rosalea Barker
On February 26, 1867, in Kansas, “the gopher bill was changed by the Senate into a grasshopper bill, giving a bounty for all scalps of grasshoppers furnished with the ears”. So says the Kansas State Historical Society’s website, so who am I ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Class in the USA
Monday, 29 March 2010, 11:28 am | Rosalea Barker
Aha! Something that has long puzzled me since I moved to the United States has at last been explained to me on an MSN web page entitled Are you middle class? I grew up with a (perhaps fuzzy) understanding of the British definition of the classes, ... More >>
Stateside: Healthcare legislation debate, Part 3
Monday, 22 March 2010, 10:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
The final vote on the Reconciliation Bill is 220-211, and Speaker Pelosi is asking if any member wishes to change their vote. Nobody does. More >>
Stateside: Healthcare legislation debate, Part 2
Monday, 22 March 2010, 4:44 pm | Rosalea Barker
Okay, so the Democrats won the vote to send the Senate Bill to President Obama for his signature 219 to 212, with 34 of them voting with the 178 Republicans who voted against it. More >>
Stateside: Healthcare legislation debate, Part 1
Monday, 22 March 2010, 4:06 pm | Rosalea Barker
Well, I’ve made my bet on the outcome of this legislation. Somehow I managed to sleep all day and woke after 5:30pm thinking it would be all over. Reaching for the Blackberry to read my email, I was surprised to see that they weren’t even going ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: US Health Care Reform Hoop-La!
Monday, 22 March 2010, 10:24 am | Rosalea Barker
For me here on the West Coast, the great national drama unfolding this weekend in DC is nothing short of riveting now that I’ve begun to take an interest in it. More >>
Rosalea Barker: Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 4:06 pm | Rosalea Barker
Nova Albion is the name that Francis (later Sir) Drake gave to the area where he spent five weeks in the early summer of 1579. He left a brass plaque claiming the region for Queen Elizabeth I, but a later claim by Spanish seafarers is the one that ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Get yer apps on!
Monday, 8 March 2010, 4:45 pm | Rosalea Barker
Okay. So here’s the thing. In the first couple of weeks of April, apparently, the US will be flooded with iPads and the publishing world as we know it will change. You need only watch this video of the Wired/Adobe Systems magazine reader app, which ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Nothing left to win
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 3:32 pm | Rosalea Barker
Good Lord, this country is litigious! I’ve only been here ten years and have been contacted at least three times saying I may be eligible for money from a class action lawsuit. There are even websites and Facebook pages dedicated to telling you about ... More >>
Stateside: America’s Cup at San Francisco
Monday, 22 February 2010, 10:27 am | Rosalea Barker
The America’s Cup, reflecting the red carpet on the staircase down which the BMW Oracle team descended, in the Rotunda of San Francisco City Hall, Saturday, February 20, 2010. More >>
Larry Ellison on the future of the America’s Cup
Monday, 22 February 2010, 10:16 am | Rosalea Barker
It’s a “back to the future” scenario four millennia in the making. Larry Ellison, whose BMW Oracle racing team brought the America’s Cup to San Francisco this past Saturday, is aiming to turn the competition for the Auld Mug into a high-tech, extreme ... More >>
