My old housemate, a strutting peacock of a man from Argentina, first put the phrase “high performance underwear” into my vocabulary some years ago when he burst from his room wearing a pair of well–tailored orange man-panties and nothing else.
Articles by Kylie Mendonca
Can Pot Cure What Ails California?
Efforts to legalize pot in the Golden State are so familiar as to seem both quaint and ripe for action at the same time. Come Nov. 2, voters will cast their ballots again on a proposal to legalize marijuana for recreational use in California.
How Repair California Was Sunk
Repair California was just an idea. Then, overnight, it was the not-for-profit messiah of the Golden State and the darling of nearly every major newspaper on the West Coast. In 2008, the Bay Area Council announced an idea to fix California’s political crisis that was so simple, so glisteningly democratic, that it was sure to fail. Called Repair California, the plan was to convene a new state constitutional convention, an idea that outshone every other proposed initiative on the 2010 ballot before their star went dark. As fast as it arrived, Repair California was gone, leaving a stunned populace to wonder, “What happened to our revolution?”
