In Memory of W. B. Yeats
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He disappeared in the dead of winter:https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2016-04-28_09-40-10.png
The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,
And...

My name is Ross Mendenhall, you know my brother (mad miles on wacco). There is nothing anonymous about me or you. I thought you trashed hopkins when you wrote that she paid farmworkers 10.50/hr with...

Hey Barry, what's all this about deleting the Red Pill Roundtable? Banning Alex? I mean, come on. I thought this was supposed to be open discussion. Looks more as if you have a very censorious...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2016-04-04_11-28-16.pngAmerica now honors one of its greatest non-conformists who withstood great condemnation and was ruthlessly silenced before the...

"Shortly after the release of a report showing 14 beers testing positive for glyphosate in Germany, a concerned supporter of Moms Across America approached me at a convention with disturbing news. He...

As much as I support the concept of this Time Bank, I find this statement by our city manager (if Cittaslow quoted him accurately and in context) to be deeply disturbing:



Just today, the Press...

Ernie ~

As the inimitable Mark Twain once said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Your statement fell almost entirely into the second category.

Let me address...

I totally agree with you. I am a single man working every day as a psychotherapist. I am stuck in senior housing. Every month I see my dream of gardening and having a sweat lodge on my own place...

The frustration and disappointment is obvious. Can the world be that simple ? Could it be that our expectations are unrealistic in light of the total human global condition ?
We would like to...

34314There is still time to do something about the proposed winery, event center, and wine tasting room planned for the corner of Elphick Road and Pleasant Hill Road. While the permit process is...

I have a theory about all of this, and I'm sure that I'll get the usual resistance, because most people are ignorant about the big picture or simply choose not to look at it ...

I believe that the...

Sonoma County is losing a lot of people due to the expensive housing. It is a serious problem and I don't see any of our elected officials addressing it. When I first moved to Sonoma County, in the...

by you too, apparently! hey, by me too, I may have been here a lot longer than you, but I wasn't born here either. But to reiterate my point, closing the door at a certain point is arbitrary. Even...

I don't think it's that simple. I think it's more a consequence of inequality - what we're seeing is a lack of empathy writ large. 'Exorbitant rents' are only exorbitant compared to the past, and...

Just saw this and thought I'd share:

Wisdom from the death bed of Steve Jobs.
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I appreciate both of you for daring to shed light on the truth of what is the reality, not only in Sonoma County, but in all desirable, living environments. People who have plenty of money and...

I've posted on this subject in several local online forums, as well as here on waccobb. As a native Californian woman in my early 60s, with a 30 year+ history of living here in Sonoma County, I'm at...

I have no expectations: I'm open to whatever happens, if anything. We have to admit that things have been shifting dramatically for quite awhile already, but if we've been safe and sound in our own...

It's kinda "gross" to imagine that most of the 99% are forced to consider cost above quality.

I wonder what the average income for Whole Foods shoppers is. You can always expect to pay more...

We petition Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California, to require ALL votes cast in the November 6 election be counted immediately. We specifically demand that ALL ballots in the following...

The fund raiser this Sunday is a fund raiser for the Preservation ranch. Good bye trees. The 1% wins again.

Yesterday evening, I received the following missive in my e-mailbox, from someone who has been following this dialog for some considerable while. This person - who wishes to remain Anonymous - has...