Getting ready to check out of the hotel in Berkeley - great game, we were "that close" - and every time I come to California, it's an education, lots of ways. I'm glad my pioneer ancestors hopped off the California Trail - there's just too damn many people down here - but Cali's the fourth biggest economy in the world, Silicon Valley is stunning in it's sheer economic muscle, and that traffic is truly horrific.
Today's lesson - in Berkeley they've implemented a soda tax to address childhood-to-adult obesity, and it (apparently) is starting to have the intended effect.
In Texas, in Utah and a lot of the red states, this is the communism our parents warned us about.
Is it?