navigating the second Gilded Age through humor, invective and insight

“Separate but equal isn’t”

My Bio

Cribbed from The Boiling Frog (which I recommend you check out):

Former biotech CFO. Elected official in San Carlos, CA for nearly 20 years. MBA from Amos Tuck/Dartmouth, BA/Molecular Biology from SUNY Buffalo. Discovered passion for history and politics through science fiction. Avid programmer and motorcyclist.

His Imperial Majesty Speaks!

mostly incoherently, but still…

“We’re gonna start a big investigation on [California’s high-speed rail project] because it’s — I’ve never seen anything like it. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country. And it wasn’t even necessary. I would have said, ‘You don’t buy it.’ You take an airplane — it costs you $2. It costs you nothing.”