The great earthquake

Jerry Brown should be President, but he won't be.

Failing that, we're left with Hillary, Bernie, and someone undoubtedly sitting in the dugout, a pinch hitter who hasn't been announced.

The Clintons are result based, which may be a good thing, but do they have enough liberal humanism in them to do the right thing? And if we vote for Hillary, are we not really
getting Bill?

The Republicans really should win, it's there for the taking. Were I hired as Republican strategist I'd advise the GOP to draft Michael Bloomberg, especially given the entree provided by fellow New Yorker Donald Trump, a man of roughly the same social and cultural milieu.

Jeremy Rifkin prophesies the end of capitalism in his new book, "The Zero Marginal Cost Society" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) with the kind of fuzzy thinking usually reserved for TED talks. Rifkin's theory is so obtuse that it can hold the demise of capitalism with the nascent rise of free enterprise, spurred by an 'energy revolution' created by the "Internet of Things."

I asked a man yesterday, a political activist in the 1970's who still keeps his eye on things, why people like Rick Perry or Rick Santorum or Carly Fiorina run for President, spend all that time and money and energy, their own and others', in such a quixotic pursuit?

He guessed that the real goal was to be offered a chair on Fox News.