Monthly Archives: September 2009

Travel Tip: get best hotel deals

September 28, 2009
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If you’re anything like me (I hope not!) when you start to plan a trip you focus heavily on the air fares. If I’m off to Vegas, I work the www.kayak.com and www.southwest.com until my fingers are sore — looking to save $10 or $20. And, only later do I remember that I’m very...

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Basic Tools for great travel

September 28, 2009
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At the Git-Go, plumbers have their favorite wrenches; carpenters their special hammers; scientists their calculators. The traveler needs to have some basic tools, too, with which to launch any project. We’ll talk in the future about the different values of using a travel agent but for now let’s look at what we can do...

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Should Cal elect a gov who doesn't vote?

September 27, 2009
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Should Cal elect a gov who doesn't vote?

eMEG, courtesy calbuzz That’s a big question facing California voters a year from now, as former e-Bay CEO Meg Whitman seeks to replace  the Republican movie star nicknamed the Governator. My favorite political Web site, CalBuzz, calls her eMeg in this great analysis. I like that.  I bring all this up because Whitman is...

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The dark side of Dick Clark

September 27, 2009
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The dark side of Dick Clark

It’s no surprise that the music business is dirty. No surprise that many of the people behind it are the same ones that run sanitation companies, the not so fictional world of Tony Soprano. In fact porn star Candye Kane, who became a blues singer, told me, nothing in the porn industry prepared her...

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