The public’s deep discontent with the Democratic and Republican parties continues to bubble up to the surface of the national political dialogue.  Indeed, the two-party system is itself up for debate.

The Kabuki Theater that is the California budget crisis continues. Republicans ask for the moon, then perhaps unknowingly use a classic Saul Alinsky tactic, while Gov. Brown freezes state hiring except for his staff and whomever else he might want to exempt.

As those immersed in the immigration debate configure their tactical strategy to reform a currently unsatisfactory system, both major political ideologies face the prospect of losing credibility in winning over critically-thinking voters.

They say no publicity is bad publicity, but doubtless Vallejo doesn't feel that way after being ranked by two national magazines as a deeply undesirable place to live.

As Egypt fades from the news cycle and the “peoples' revolution” progresses along its story arc, a quiet casualty of the political turmoil there has been reported by the Global Crop Diversity Trust.