Great speech by Sen. Sanders
I just watched Sanders lay down a number of markers that will be discussed at the next debate. If Biden can do a decent job of answering those questions, then he should able to face down trump to the...
View ArticleCensure as an option
According to Robert Costas, Senator Manchin has called for a a censure vote to censure trump. Reports indicate that there may be some appetite for this option. The virtue of this is that it a vote...
View ArticleRetired Local Minister Has Died
I didn’t know Don Schilling except by sight. I knew his wife, Dee, more by reputation as a fellow lawyer in the Sonoma County area, where she was known to be a fighter. I didn’t know of Don’s early...
View ArticleA great Public Defender has died
Fifty-nine year old Jeff Adachi, The elected Public Defender of San Francisco has died. Mr. Adachi leaves a record of public service and advocacy for reform in the Criminal Justice system that is...
View ArticleIt was raining....
In Flanders Field the poppys grow trump he can’t see them though He’s eating fries in some Hotel Because he heard some raindrops fell The gallant men who fought and died He shrugs off and orders...
View ArticleSunday at the Midwest Cafe
I’m sitting in a little Mom&Pop restaurant in trump territory Indiana. It’s Sunday morning and there are Sunday clothes and farmer duds at the various tables. An old retired guy from my little town...
View ArticleWatching the fire from afar
While I'm here in the Midwest taking care of family business my beloved Sonoma County is burning. My wife, just a week post surgery, saw the orange glow over the Calistoga hills and had just a couple...
View ArticleThree years after shooting a teenager
In 2013 a young kid was walking to a local field that kids played in. He was carrying a BB gun that bore some resemblance to an AK-47, but had attracted no attention and was not pointing the damned...
View ArticleNo Charges in Boys Death
Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Eric Gelhaus will not be tried in the shooting of Andy Lopez. Jill Ravitch the Sonoma County District Attorney fresh from re-election has ruled that her office will not...
View Article27 years to life
I spent yesterday with a man who was given a 27 years to life sentence. The crimes were serious, but not violent and it was a shock when the sentence was handed out back in the last years of the...
View ArticlePrayers for Levon
According to a post by his wife Sandy and Daughter Amy, Levon Helm is in the last stages of his battle with cancer. I am not much of the praying kind, but if you are send one his way. Levon had one...
View ArticleYour Best Job
Meteor Blades has a piece up about Jobs and Deficit reduction. In a poll he cites it says that 54% of Americans believe that Manufacturing is most important or 2nd most important as an underpinning...
View ArticleI Will Close Gitmo
Heh, and I thought that meant sometime soon. And I thought that meant sometime within the first year he took office, I can't remember exactly why I thought that, something I heard somewhere I guess....
View ArticleWho the Devil is talking on my computer???
I'm sitting here at work, waiting to get called into the arena and killing a little time, when all of a sudden my computer breaks into an audible commercial. I can't even figure out what is going on...
View ArticleWhile we fight the meta war
While I think the Meta-war is necessary and I'm not unwilling to take my part in it, the real deal is going down all around the industrial world. The price of US exceptionalism is that we seem to...
View ArticlePimping away for a sad day
This is just a very short diary, more of a pimping project, actually. I remember Kent State 40 years ago. Its disconcerting to think that it was so long ago, and that these kids would be getting...
View ArticleBankruptcy for Chrysler
It is with very mixed feelings that I read that Chrysler is going into bankruptcy. According to the NY Times, a swift, "surgical" process, was set to be filed in United States Bankruptcy Court in New...
View Article5 Million Jobs Lost
According to the NY Times, the economy shrank at the rate of 6.1% the first three months of this year instead of the predicted 4.7% decline. This steep drop is evidence of the task before the country...
View ArticleThe World Turned Upside Down
The 4th amendment received a shot of life from the Supreme Court today. In Belton (453 US 454), the rule was taken that once the police arrest someone in a car they have the right to search the...
View ArticleHouse approves the stimulus package
I just got an alert from the NY Times that the House has approved the stimulus bill to the tune of $819 billion. 244-168 is the vote tally listed by the NYT. I hope this is just a start, and I'm sure...
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