The best suggestion I can make for the success of Townsy Cafe is to not permit screen names, but to require actual human names of posters, and their photos.

Over the course of the pandemic, as a...

From her website:

"A Buddhist monk I know has on his screen saver the names and photographs of people to whom he is grateful: Gandhi, Malala, Greta Thunberg, Vaclav Havel, Martin Luther King,...

I remember polio vividly. My mother kept me out of elementary school for 2 years so I would not be exposed to polio. She was a straight-A genius in high school and at UCLA, and she taught me to love...

There is a strong statistical correlation between the number of teachers in a county and the quantity of alcoholic beverages consumed in that county. Obviously, teachers are drunkards.

It is also...

Jude, you seem to frequently rebroadcast unsubstantiated, even already debunked, claims from social media sources that fit your pre-existing opinions.

Take your opening paragraph" "Beginning with...

Most covid related deaths have NOT been patients who were on ventilators. And recently the covid related deaths have surpassed those from other causes such as heart disease. Again, how do you...

Miracles


Here I sit at my computer on 11-11-11, reading hours of emails and petitions and forwards about Delaware River fracking, and Mississippi’s rejection of personhood for women’s eggs, and...

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Dear spiritual friends,

A few important talking points by Jason Hine:

Fictional conspiracy theories such as Qanon, and conspiracy theories about the imaginary "deep state" are cooked up by...

Hello Everyone,


49743I have lately been feeling the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic - the deep grief of it, if you will – and I retreated for some time from engaging in any COVID-19...

Only A Pawn In Their Game

A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers’ blood
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A finger fired the trigger to his name
A handle hid out in the...

Speaking for myself, a life-long member of the scientific community, I don't owe you fools jack shit and will not waste my time watching your knuckle-headed "research." You guys pollute the public...

Here's some good common sense written by James Stein, MD, a "Jewish vegetarian cardiologist". After much research, I tracked down the original post to his facebook page here. :waccosun:


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Thanks Carolyn,

What follows is a little off-topic and trivial, but it was a big deal for me personally.

Thirty two years ago, I was responsible for hiring a keynote speaker for a law school...

Okay, I'll go first...

"I don't always expose myself to global pandemics, but when i do, I prefer Coronavirus. Stay healthy, my friends."

From Supervisor Lynda Hopkins

Hi Stuart —


We’ve never met (at least to my knowledge). Rather than immediately launching a recall campaign against me, maybe you’d consider first sitting down...

I am tired of hearing that, of course, government can never run anything right. In an attempt to rebut this notion I have been compiling a list of examples of well done government. I don't want to...

Main lesson learned: If you're going to run about frantically at 4:30 a.m. packing stuff out to the car, catch and cage your two cats FIRST before they freak out.

But kinda nice to realize that...

Here's another, not unrelated view, Star Man:

"How Do We Take America Back From the Suckers & The Uber-Wealthy?

Christopher Wiley, the guy who worked at Cambridge Analytica under Steve...

Thanks for your comments, everybody, but you are getting into the weeds and morality of health care policy.

My point is that we need to win this election, to save the planet, besides improving...

that's your big misunderstanding, shared by a lot of trumpies. The quotes were instead intended as a critique of the president's inability to tolerate criticism, which indeed does include threatening...

I get you believe this, and the article relates to RF radiation in general, and a big advance in 5G is reducing the level of RF radiation through the use of directional antennas. Your phone will...

I read the link above and I can attest that much of what they say is true, but taken so far out of context that the meaning is completely distorted. For example, it says:

Prior to its use as a...

right, because until it's confirmed as legitimate by the MSM, the sheeple won't go for it? is that your implication? does 'respectful' mean slightly more veiled innuendo?

As for who profits, it's...

The Barlow had a flood protection plan that was supposed to be automatically engaged when flooding was likely. The planned crew of 25+ turned out to be 5 or 6 poorly trained men who started working...

" were you here for the fight to stop the Barlow? It was not welcomed by many and many fought it. "

This is an interesting re-write of history. As I remember it, the huge fight was over what was...

The 'never cannabis' cabal has made many factually incorrect and hysterical claims though their website and wherever they can bend an ear but I feel it is time for me to address this nonsense put...

In 2003 the Sebastopol City Council recognized that the old apple processing district in the northeast area of the city would eventually come under pressure to develop. The General Plan at the time...

Indeed, I have presented many examples of such, and I will again. Start with WHO (alright, lots of right-wingers believe WHO is a communist front, but still ...)...

I have to take issue with the underlying narrative of this piece (never mind it's reliance on the trope of WHITE working class).

It ignores the reality, that Trump also ignored while exploiting,...

The interesting thing I have found after having moved to Sebastopol from a very conservative part of California (Kern County) that they are more extreme. For example, the city I lived in, Ridgecrest...

Really? I do not understood this silly ban on Smart Meters. It ended up with people threatening blue collar guys who were contracted by PG&E to do this. I think this is silly and stupid. I hope the...

I am really disappointed to see this. I would have liked to think that cannabis growers would have been a little more enlightened than your typical business interest, but alas, they aren't.

If you...

Normally I would not bother to read, let alone recommend, David Brooks, but this column caught my attention.

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I can see how Sanders and supporters would be disturbed for this news to come out, especially on the eve of the the California (and others) primary, but wasn't it Sanders saying that Superdelegates...

I'm outside with the sun on my face without getting sunburns all the time. I often get sunburns when I'm at the beach, though. By your implied rules of correlation, I'd think you should blame...

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Hey vaccine deniers–it’s just simple math
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When dealing...

KPFA of course uses EMF fields to transmit its message!

The experiment is progressing apace. There are certainly several billion test subjects all over the world. Oddly, there seems to be some...

Though I'm no longer a West County resident, I still must cast an in absentia vote for Larry Robinson.

Lynn Deedler asked me to post this for him:


Concerning comments on proposed multi use trails:

Several writers dismiss the value of having multi use trails in Sebastopol. In the recent Mayor’s...

Who is Lou Reed???

I have an album of Siouxie and the Banshees and my favorite song is, "Oh Peekaboo!" My daughter knows about them through me. My daughter was surprised that I didn't know about...

Yeah, but at least no one can accuse him of drinking shitty beer.

Actually, I believe we have this lawsuit because we approved their project and based upon that approval CVS invested millions in a piece of prime real estate, after which we changed the rules of the...

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A "fact" is a premise presumed to be true generally supported by wide-ranging evidence, or from our WikiFriends:

I do not think that there has been -any- reasonable (reasonable meaning derived...

Never said that, just said the energy density of a smart meter is far less than a cell phone. Cell phones ping towers something like every 6 seconds, whether you are talking on them or not. Cell...

google is all you ever need. By the way, it turns out that the water supply is over 60% hydrogen, even after the antipsychotics have been added. Google "Hindenberg" and you'll see what we have to...

Shopping
for my mother

Now that you are gone
I know what you have made me

shrewd hands feeling tomatoes
looking for flaws
pinching them till they hurt
(you never know...