Sometimes it's smarter to eat crunchy peanut butter on burned wheat toast than to open your mouth -- or pound on your keyboard. Cases to consider: From an Orange County Register editorial, critical of the Schwarzenegger-Nunez notion of health care reform: ''But health care is no more a right endowed by our Creator than is a job or a pension or ...

If the choices were only that simple. I'm talking about California health care reform. The Assembly has passed the Schwarzenegger-Nunez near-universal coverage bill. Senate President pro tem Don Perata is saying, not so fast -- no Senate review until January, after some costing out. There will be a clear winner when all this plays out. But don't ...