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Cracker Commentary
 Saturday, January 11, 2003Gray Davis, Libertarian Governor Davis strikes a blow for localism by shifting some services that the state can't afford to cities and counties. Navy to leave Puerto Rico? When the activists on Vieques get what they want, the abandonment of the Navy's bombing and artillary range, Puerto Rico may lose its biggest employer. According to this morning's Sentinel, if the Navy leaves Vieques it may not see any need to stay at Roosevelt Roads, near San Juan. The Vieques protesters are just one more example of the hordes of activists who become fixated on their own cause and the consequences be damned. In the 1970's, I helped bombard the Vieques beach from a destroyer out of the Roads and there was one accidental casualty. We were reservists and one sailor didn't realize that when a tin can fires its four-inch rifles, the whole ship jumps and you don't want to be resting your chin on a railing. He only needed a couple of stitches, though. Back from the left I'm back on the right coast, now. Of all the places I've used my laptop, my kid's house in Silicon Valley had the worst connection, almost unusable when I was logged on. (Ok. Maybe it was me.) Anyway, not too suprising once you've deplaned at San Jose, where they roll the stairs out to meet you and you walk across the tarmac to the terminal. The sheer simplicity of the technology boggles the mind after dealing with those silly jetways everywhere else. It was a good, although unintentional, break from blogging. The kids are doing great, the wine in Sonoma is wonderful and airport security wasn't nearly as bad as just sitting in an LAX terminal for hours. The blogging will probably have a little different flavor, now, a little less current events and a little more personal, and might be even less frequent as I have a fiction project going on now. Anyway, it's good to be back. A belated happy new year to everybody.
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