This is the madcap time when California legislators jockey to get their bills out of the ''suspense'' file and moving through the Senate and Assembly. Anything that costs revenue, well, LOL. ''Suspense'' is supposed to have an Indiana Jones feel, not paper-pushing politicking.  But the LOL used to mean ''lots of luck,'' but has morphed in ...

It starts at 5 a.m., waiting for the thunk, thunk, thunk outside the door -- the Fresno Bee, Wall Street Journal and New York Times. It ends about 17 hours later with a final check of emails on my Treo. In between, a lot of what happens falls under the label of ''public affairs.'' It's what I do. Here is snapshot of what any given day might ...