It has been a long busy week, 12-14 hour work days. Admittedly, I am running out of brain power, so forgive the link post, rather than full analysis.

• California leads the way on environmental legislation. While, I am not totally thrilled with this particular bill as a whole, it is pretty great to see Congress using AB32 to create federal legislation.
• Our HMOs suck, so says a state report. I have a post up on the subject at Working Californians.
• The battle between Speaker Fabian Nunez and the California Nurses Association has gotten personal and nasty. Basic background is that CNA only supports single payer health care and the CA legislature (with the rest of labor and the consumer groups) are perusing reform that keeps in place private health insurance companies. CNA has been actively campaigning against it and seems willing to put resources in to dooming the entire effort. They do not have the resources to pass single payer, nor does it appear to be viable in terms of the public support. The current path we are on is the status quo, which is extraordinarily disappointing.Hopefully soon I will have time to write a full post on the subject for Calitics.
• Courage Campaign sent an email on behalf of Working Assets today pressuring DiFi to oppose immunity for the telecom companies in the FISA bill. Take action here: contact DiFi.
• Speaking of FISA and immunity. The uproar today is over a report that Reid was going to try and push past Dodd’s hold of the bill. However, and this is pretty wonky…The bill is not in a place in the process where there is anything to actually put a hold on. We don’t know if the language is going to have immunity in it. They said it would a few days ago, but it is unclear if the latest dust-up will change the wording. That is why it is so important to push DiFi to do the right thing and oppose a bill with immunity, not to mention the basket warrants.
• And now for something completely different… Top Out Colleges. I found this via AfterEllen.com. It really needs some more votes to be more accurate. For some reason Smith is in second place even though they have a perfect score and more votes than the #1 score. Vassar unfortunately is stuck at 29th, boo. Ithaca is at #8. I have some good memories hanging out with my cousin there with her crew of lezzies. They called themselves the She-Man Woman Lovers Club. Best. Name. Ever.

That’s all I got for now.