Bloggermania 2 is around the corner... Are you coming?  

In the past few years, crime rates have been gone way up. I wonder why? I think the fact that it is now very rare that a person gets the punishment they deserve plays a very major role. Same with some people that seem to get away with tons of very serious stuff before being put in jail for a longer time than you go on vacation.

As an editor for many years, perhaps too many years, I have come to think in headlines.

Now that all five big investment banks — Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — have disappeared or morphed into regular banks, a question arises.

Bloggermania II was Sturday at Veteran's Park in Yountville.

WASHINGTON - Even if congressional leaders can close a deal on the bank rescue, the real debate is just beginning. The key questions about the plan are not the ones that Congress debated: how much it would cost and whether it would impose symbolic pay caps for bosses whose wealth has already been hammered. Rather, the key question lies in the execution of the bailout.

Dear editor, The Napa County Democratic Central Committee, after interviewing those candidates seeking endorsement, has voted to endorse the following for the elections in the city of American Canyon: Leon Garcia for reelection as mayor; Joan Bennett for reelection to the city council; and Matt Pope for election to the city council.

Dear editor, As Congress debates the wisdom of burdening my grandchildren with a $700 billion debt by borrowing from China and Saudi Arabia to bail out Wall Street mortgage investment firms, let me suggest some other sources for the bailout funds:

This whole situation with Keith Caldwell and the improper educational bonuses stinks to high heaven, and now the American Canyon City Council has added to the mess by failing to do their Democratic duty to the public and tell us the truth about what went on. It shows real gutlessness on the part of the American Canyon City Council, and couldn’t be a more undemocratic decision.

Barack Obama chose Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate ... what do you think of the choice?

(Editor's note: The comments on this crashed about 9:30 a.m Friday, right after McCain's announcement. We were able to rebuild most but not all of the comments)