While I've tried allowing thoughtful Trumpsters to post here, as well as allowing space for various conspiracy theories, however lately I and other members have felt these topics are getting out of...

I'm the Sebastopol newbie, so I don't know what your history with CVS is. It sounds bad, but may I offer a little different perspective? please without getting pummeled.

My daughter and I moved...

Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene

Thank you, instant mashed potatoes, your bland taste
makes me feel like an average American. Thank you,

incarcerated Americans, for filling the labor...

I think it is an over-statement to say that they ALWAYS have been. Lincoln was a Republican. I consider Dwight D. Eisenhower to have been a good president. In his retirement speech he came out...

Thank you to Julie Johnson of the Press-Democrat for her article about the State Bar's investigation of DA Ravitch. Of course, Julie could not cover details in a brief report, so I have attached to...

Fair enough, Chef. Although I still believe that some of the seeming "lie' can be laid at the feet of English being their second language. I also believe that the initial question posed by the SWTN...

What I Teach 3rd Graders

I teach how to shake hands
and raise hands
and clap hands
to appreciate.
How to listen
how to wait
how to hold a pencil
(not a gun).

I imagine many people have already seen this, but just in case some have missed it, I'm posting the link. It's hard to take at the beginning, but consider the source. Watch it through to the end--a...

I loved your response. Many individual's sole incomes are from Airbnb. For people to demand that Airbnb hosts, who are generally not wealthy and wouldn't be renting a room or granny unit unless they...

...and perhaps you're missing the point that the other members are entitled to have opinions of their own regarding the issue of "censorship" by the corporate media. Perhaps there are people like me...

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I second the sentiment about NOT hiding suicide away. As politically incorrect as it is to say this... it takes an immense amount of courage to end one's life, preceded in equal measure by the vast...

Matt’s Guitar

Sometimes when I hear
The sad single strings of a Spanish guitar
Played by a man alone
In an old rhythm that wandered from Madrid
My heart fills to...

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Khalil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist...

A Green at California Governor’s Debates:



Confused, Dismayed, but Enthused



By Sandy Stiassni