Tars: "I Just dropped in, to see what condition my condition is in".

Strident back,up singers: "Yeah, yeah, oh-oh yeah, what condition my condition is in".

Thank, you Miles, and others for...

There's a time for all things. The time for me to be a participant of this particular online community has come to an end. Arguably, in this country our most valuable right is that of free speech. ...

This from the Demand Progress website:



Stop the Internet Blacklist!


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From The Week:

5 scams job seekers are falling for


As con men target the unemployed, Americans should watch out for work-from-home schemes,...

You have been pulled over by the WaccoBB spelling police:
(Officer I. Manal):


According to Merriam-Webster:
LIAR:


Definition of LIAR

Sadly, unlike the denizens of this place, the majority of voting age people believe what the most-recent soundbite tells them to believe. Hence the obscene amounts of advertising money poured into...

I'm a mail-in voter, and I've already cast my vote in favor of 19. I see the concerns people have, and they sound like very reasonable concerns. Having read them I still voted in favor of the the...

I don't know it all, I do know that. I don't know anyone in my age range who thinks that. However, life teaches patience and some wisdom if we allow ourselves to learn.

The part of your post...

and then, vote on the candidates or measures that you think have a chance of moving us forward.

A textbook reason for getting involved discussing the issues and candidates, and then voting.
...

That would be a wrong assumption. It's more probable that every email, website visit, forum post, blog reply, Facebook entry, is being "scraped" or "datamined" by someone. Doesn't mean anyone's out...

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Of course it is. It's not a black or white situation. Democrats inhabit the moral gray areas, as does the GOP. In this situation, as voters we hope to nudge things away from the blackness of total...

Looks like it's working fine now (Fri. eve). Thanks Barry & Alexia for the rapid response!

Krugman, one of my two favorite economists in the universe, along with Robert Reich, makes the most germaine point in the last paragraph:



Unfortunately, I think that Dr. Krugman may be...

Analogy of the Mantra



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Dang, I wish I could go to this event!

Both Stewart & Colbert mentioned that there would be "musical guests" appearing. Wild guess - 200,000 people attending.......300,000? The Woodstock of the...

The current favorite theories about UFOs' origins seem to be - they're extra-terrestrial, and/or extra-dimensional, and/or extra-temporal.

One for-instance might be that the ones seen near nuclear...

Perhaps I'm one of the few people who regularly used the "Mark All Read" button on the old menu. When I clicked it, the next time I logged on only new posts showed. I hope that mod or whatever it...

From the New Scientist website:

"A psychedelic approach to artificial life, cosmic collisions making colossal black holes, magnetic whirlpools, translucent filter-feeders and half a million...

Because they're different - different looking, different sounding, different culture. Different is scary. It might cause...{SHUDDER!}.<shudder>...change.</shudder>

Can't help you with direct info about west county traffic. But I have a suggestion or two.

Perhaps if you set up a twitter account, call it @sonomaroads maybe. People who participate in it could...

If you have bandwidth constraints, I suggest you don't don't bother watching this video. I guess that comment makes me part of the big U.S. gov't conspiracy to cover up the "truth".

Video...

Seems to me that pay-for-sex is very similar to drug use - prohibition isn't the answer. If people want to have sex right now, and are willing to pay the money and associated risks for it, making it...

Reading this Robert Reich OpEd this A.M., I was reminded of an article quoted in the WaccoTalk forum, which seemingly blames the jobs crisis on the existence of taxes (the boilerplate GOP talking...

Paraphrase: Greedy stupid Washington pols want to take taxes from workers to pay for unemployment insurance, medicare, Social Security, infrastructure building & repair, & other socialist programs. ...

This one might be filed under "People will do any damned thing!". Kids, definitely DO NOT try these at home!

From, of all places, the Medical Billing and Coding website. (via a pointer from The...

Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well, there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However every Evil Overlord in books or movies invariably gets...

Try this link:

Recent Posts across All Categories

New posts are at the bottom of the page.

I miss the "Mark Posts As Read" Feature. But I'm confident that it will be included as part of...

Found by the webhounds working on The Daily Dish:


Dish's quote from The original Daily What article:

"The James Dyson Award-winning Copenhagen Wheel from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab instantly...

You definitely have a Stream-of-consciousness style of posting. https://www.rriddle.com/Pix/reading.gif

Well, OK, I'm not shy about giving my opinion...

Personally, I liked the old style or skin better...maybe I was just used to it. For some reason when I log on here now, I get the "recent posts"...

I mean that in the nicest way, of course.

The U.S.has been on an imperialist treadmill for what....two centuries? Lots of trudging and action, but no moving forward. After 200 years of this...

Just noting that your nephew sounds like most of the 22-year-olds I've ever known, stoned, or unstoned. Probably more prevalent these days, 'cause their aren't many jobs to keep twennysomethings...

Part Two of two

Install your two tubing elbows into your gromits. Careful not to push your gromits out of the holes you drilled. I spit on the barbs before installing them. Measure the distance...

For those who might be interested in growing tomatoes, or other produce indoors, here's a nice single-plant hydro system. This process was originated and presented by Rumpleforeskin, on the...

Last Sunday I went to the Santa Rosa Flea Market for the first time this season. I usually go, when I do, to the Sebastopol market, as I have done for the last 25 years.

Even on a slow Sunday,...

Glad you asked.

First, who in the world doesn't strive to be conscious, with the exception of heroin addicts, suicidals, and that sort? Being conscious is one of the main reasons we get out of...

I was told by a property owner adjacent to the Sebastopol town square, that the Farmers' Market will not be held at that location anymore, starting with the 2009 season. They said they believe that...

Lots of concern lately that Palm Drive Hospital is in dire financial condition, and may go bankrupt. How will this problem be solved? Does it really need to be solved?

The discussion will...