Good questions.

Reading the book should not be enough to turn a true skeptic into someone convinced, but assuming honesty by the authors, it should turn a true skeptic into someone who...

For those readers who think we critics are piling on cops and ignoring the good cops. here is an article you should spend some time contemplating.

A few good cops are finally suing the NYPD. which...

A quick answer to one of your comments because I am sick and tired of reading such attempts to attack those who are reporting and discussing abuses.

We do not see many reports of sales clerks...

If the story holds up seems to me it's time for some serious house cleaning of the corruption in Rohnert Park. Maybe it's time for some citizen initiatives that would punish police budgets every time...

Sounds to me like he needs to make a serious explanation to the citizens of this area as to why after so much time he has not adopted this policy - or seek a new job. The press has exposed case after...

The police are paid to preserve the peace and enforce the law. They are granted privileges the rest of us do not have. To be sure they often see the worst side of people, but that is all the more...

Wise words, I agree that any design seriously considered by presented so we can see it the same way we see the current mock-ups. I also have my doubts any of this discussion will matter. But nothing...

That's a valid point Shandi, but some is much more legible than others. That is why I linked to those many examples and also why, if I were exploring this possibility, I'd ask anyone making a...

While I was getting a coffee at Hardcore today I was talking with the folks behind the bar, and one is a major fan of the genuinely artistic kinds of young people's "graffiti art" done on...

I think that is a very interesting idea. It would probably put the Barlow more on the map than their idea, drawing people to see the mural and possibly similar projects in the district. That will be...

Way way way too big. It's as out of scale as the winery that was just turned down. Please tell them NO.

Atkinson's views would be more worth taking seriously if he had previously demonstrated the respect for his readers and personal integrity required to publish a correction for the inaccurate...

QuestForHarmony-
The footpaths are not considered private land in this legal sense, even though they exist across private land.

What constitutes private land is a social decision that is based...

Pretty wild swinging there regarding the Rodota Trail. Some homeless folks do spend the night in some thickets. I sometimes see one, at most two, when walking from Sebastopol to the outskirts of...

The council; does not always speak with one voice, but the criticisms of Greenberg's supposed inability to play well with others suggests that is its preferred position. This criticism impress me as...

I must disagree, and the issue is very important. And the more I read the debates here the more important it becomes to me than Greenberg be on the city council. I apologize for the length, but its...

If Sarah Gurney compared an elected city council to a law partnership, this is truly appalling. A law partnership looks out for the good of the partnership. Members become members because of what...

I also am a fervent supporter of the emergency room, and the one time I used an emergency room, it was the one at Palm Drive when I had a stroke. That was in 2008.

Another reason, probably...

Ravitch has been exposed as an apologist for police criminality or a coward. Either way, she is unsuited for the position she holds. Her manipulation of voters into supporting her by holding off on...

Seems to me Ravitch has lost all right to be respected or trusted as a DA. And if the police keep Gelhaus on the force there is also need for new leadership in the department.

Over time...

Helen- No flame or dumping, but in several decades of knowing people who smoked pot, and using it myself quite regularly at one time, I have never noticed people became more aggressive on it. usually...

I listened to the entire thing.

The timing is itself suspicious- right after the election. For Ravitch apparently shooting down a 13 year old with minimal warning and minimal care is business as...

Thank you Jonathan and Dan. When I first read the editorial something about it smelled- lots of charges and personal attacks and absolutely no details. The attacks on Dan, who probably more than...

The recent comments about under utilization and Sonoma West are not addressing the issue they claim to criticize. No one denies that under utilization is a problem. No one.

The issues are first,...

Did you read my earlier post on how honorable people could get swept into something like this? Please do so.

IF they can honestly work with people seeking to reopen Palm Drive I would be 100% in...

I almost shared this a month ago, but it's still good. I have somewhat distant relatives living in Carmel. They sent me an email that said among other things:

"Thought you would like to know that...

Well, if they did I missed it as well.

Sebastopol is the kind of place where this could take off in a big way.
Please check out the video and where it leads.
This could be a game changer for the better.
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Thursday’s gathering at the Veterans Center was remarkable in its unanimity. For the hour and a half I was there the large crowd, alerted on such short notice, opposed the Palm Drive Board’s actions,...

I meant both statements you give, and I meant them quite literally. Part of a rational explanation is that it is feasible. But only part.

Kate- I sadly think Rustie is correct. But I will make one last try.

I doubt you are aware of how smugly arrogant what you wrote was, but it was offensively so. You say you and those like you...

Given the article by peacetown jonathan that has appeared describing how the board handled mediation requests and the dishonest arguments of their very non local lawyer, I think the only reasonable...

If this article is accurate it underlines in boldface the claims of those arguing the Board of Directors never negotiated in good faith and are deserving of immediate termination. They have failed in...

Dixon's article is excellent in my opinion. I want to add one important point. As I continually told my students, when your intuition tells you some argument or finding must be false, without your...

Congratulations! You have written one of the most articulate and penetrating analyses from a right wing mentality I have read in a long time. This is particularly clear in your use of reason,...

TyrannyNews, I am most likely as aware of the shortcomings of Big Pharma as you are, and have probably written about them more than you have. But what they do that is wrong, such as bribing...

A few years ago there was an interesting report of an experiment exploring how people reacted to feelings of powerlessness. The core discovery was

"a set of experiments that used a variety of...

I admit I was shocked by your post. It takes a special kind of selective attention to say that science has hucksters and religion does not. For example, the many radio and TV preachers living very...

Well said Richard.

One of the things that perplexes me is that we have very real threats against us and our world, threats that people are attempting to counter in concrete ways with specific...

There is a principle in science that is very appropriate here: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claims about "chemtrails" are truly extraordinary. The evidence we have read...

You say they are rare and I saw them so often that in high school I wondered how we could have Westerns anymore because the contrail;s would give away that they were not in the past. I'll, go with my...

I grew up in Wichita, Kansas, then home of Boeing's largest factory outside Seattle, many other aircraft manufacturers, and a very large air base. Large jets overhead were a part of daily life...

I am not in any sense an expert or deeply informed on Palm Drive's specifics. I attended the night time vigil because I had heard about the doctors' having come up with a plan for keeping it open...

The issue is not managers, the issue is whether they are so special that the rest of us mortals should be subservient to them while paying them princely incomes. Managing is an important skill but...

Not just a rhetorical flourish. The directors have closed it. So far as I know the only people who have offered a plan to keep it open are the doctors who work there. I imagine doctors are aware of...

Petaluma has the Alvarado Street Bakery. Been around 30 years. Bakers run it. They make about $80K a year and their CEO gets no more than 3X the lowest paid worker. They manage just fine in good...

I don't pretend to be an expert on Palm Drive, but I am bothered by the fact that the Board made its final decision in secret and think it likely the doctors have more knowledge than anyone else how...

Last night I drove over to Palm Drive Hospital to join the candle light vigil protesting its closure by its elected Board of Directors. Even though it was 11:30 on a Sunday night it looked to me...

Yes indeed. We have a very successful worker operated enterprise only a few miles away- the Alvarado Street Bakery- 30 years old, over 100 worker managers, and last year the average person there made...

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