BURGER SCOOT

  • My Short Love Affair with Music

    My Short Love Affair with Music

    1975, Rio Americano High School’s AV Room: Born to Run It was late in the fall of my junior year in high school. I must have been roaming the halls during a period where I had dropped out of a course. The dropped class was most likely Ceramics where I spend nearly the whole semester… Read more

  • Williamson on The Rubin Report

    For all the Marianne Williamson naysayers, who claim she’s a political lightweight, a spiritual leader who has no business in politics, check out Williamson schooling conservative pundit Dave Rubin in this hour-long interview on his show, The Rubin Report. There are some truly golden moments here where the “hot grandma,” as someone reduced her during… Read more

  • The Centrists cannot hold

    Assuming Trump isn’t ran out of office on a rail before November 3, 2020, some serious decisions have to be made on who is going to run against him. Chances are we won’t be hearing of any fed up group of Republicans running through the West Wing with a long piece of timbre while the… Read more

  • Saigon, Nha Trang, Hanoi, and Beijing in a few pix

    My wife and I spent two weeks in Vietnam and China recently. Below are some images from the trip. The main part of the vacation was in Vietnam. The time in Beijing was a stop off on the way home to visit with our son, his beautiful wife and their adorable two daughters. Ho Chi… Read more

  • The Two-Block BurgerWalk–Mexican Style

    When I was regularly reviewing burgers in the Sacramento area on this site I found at least three restaurants that served some of the best burgers in town that were easily within walking distance from my office. Esquire Grill and Grange made excellent burgers, but the best burger in the neighborhood was from Ella’s; an… Read more

  • America & taxes

    America & taxes

    “I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word ‘fair’ in connection with income tax policies.” — William F. Buckley, Jr. ’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes – The Cobbler of Preston by Christopher Bullock Maybe it is because America fought a war over taxes that taxation has… Read more