David Fowkes is an expert on Stanford football for the Bay Area Examiner. Dave asked me if I we could exchange five questions each about the big game on Saturday. Click on his link because he could use a few page views over at his site.No 2 ways about it; Michael's job is to make the roads safer. To take the impaired drivers off the streets and hig

I have a new love -- and it's not a house or a guy or a car. It's an edgy Showtime television suburban satire,"Weeds", in which Mary Louise Parker plays a widowed soccer mom, Nancy Botwin, in a fictional subdivision of Los Angeles known as Agrestic. Nancy struggles with her husband's death and agonizes how she'll support her family. In being the lo

One of the beaches in Southern California is the north end of Ocean Beach. Someone unfamiliar with that beach scene might presume it to be just a freak fest, or a surfer's haven, clothing optional sun bathing. Nope, not even close, it is Dog Beach. Oceanic beauty, Folks, love all rolled into one, and canines. This example is a microcosm of intensit

Australian scientists have established a provisional saliva "per se level of THC" for roadside testing [12], . That thus far lacks evidential support", but seems to be (because of the illegality of marijuana) developing into a'zero-tolerance-approach' with any detectable amount of the drug tested - a seemingly much wiser route! So far, no scientifi

Is it just me, or does this seem like just about everyone is trying to find a way to alter their mind? By this I am not talking about these yoga or meditation, I am speaking about people using chemical substances to get a buzz.This program, the passion and professionalism of Michael and the DRE / troopers, and the harsh penalties for those found gu