Linda Hopkins has come under fire because much of her funding comes from interests that seem to be at odds with her professed values. I watched the video of the Sebastopol forum, and in particular...

Please provide a link to the article. This is not nearly enough information upon which to base any kind of informed evaluation.

Patrick Brinton

Could you perhaps list some of those great things she has done in her career, because I am having some trouble coming up with any. Certainly the video was very negative about her, but it seems to me...

It would be very helpful if those praising videos or other linked info would repost the link so that people like me, who somehow missed it the first time through can easily find it. Barry, maybe you...

Interest, yes; support, so far not so much. I asked what I thought was a fairly simple question, capable of a fairly simple answer, and got back a wall of text and a blizzard of links, none of which...

The links all seem to concern the CAB. What I was curious about is the process that was followed by the city council before even approving the plan. Were there public meetings to present the...

I am a little confused about his controversy. I must admit I did not give it a lot of attention when the idea was first discussed, so I am unclear about the process that was followed. You seem to be...

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Into which category do you think he falls? You seem to be under the impression that he committed the new crimes while on bail. This is not the case. While he was on bail a new complainant...

An excellent article by an Italian woman comparing Trump to Berlusconi.

https://qz.com/624065/a-tip-to-americans-from-an-italian-who-saw-berlusconi-get-elected-again-and-again-and-again/

Hillary Clinton, on being challenged to release transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street institutions, says she will do so if the same standard is applied to everyone, including Republican...

I had a different reaction. When I read Ms Hopkins' response, I had to go back and reread Ernie's post to see if I had missed something. I thought it was pretty mild, and her reaction to be out of...

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You know, Barry, I think you may just have hit the nail on the head. The reason people don't pay any attention to politics is that it is just not entertaining enough. I have long wanted to pitch the...

Well, yes and no. If you are talking about sunlight or transmitted light, then white contains all the colors, and darkness (black) is the absence of color. However the colors we see are mostly...

I watched the whole debate, and while I am happy to express my opinion I encourage everyone to watch it and make up their own mind. I would normally find myself on the rational, scientific side of...

I disagree. A Supreme Court Justice's job is to rule on the law, not to decide on what is good public policy. Their decision was that the initiative process, as a matter of law, cannot be used for...

We have a tendency to bandy around scientific terms, and indeed science itself, in these forums (fora?), often with a very unclear idea of what they actually mean. Here is a pretty clear explanation...

This seems to me to be a very sexist statement. As a man I find myself somewhat offended by the implication it contains. Perhaps a better way to phrase it that would be less confrontational would be...

For the sake of any of us bystanders who might think she is in fact making a valid point, would you please answer her question? If you are relying on electing two new members to the board who are...

You have my deepest sympathy. Losing a computer can be a devastating experience. I know it is not much help at this point, but perhaps others can use this information (and maybe yourself in the...

It seems that the case in question was an application for a restraining order. These are typically heard by very low level judges, sometimes attorneys acting as temporary judges, and the standard of...

Thank you, Victoria. That was an admirable and courageous thing to do.

I had thought of this scenario myself, but hesitated to write about it. What brought me there was trying to imagine someone...

I did not find the information you provided either relevant or pertinent to the present discussion, except perhaps for providing a possible answer as to why she hired a lawyer, which was not really...

I call her the accuser because that is what she is. I do not see that this is any kind of slur, even in common parlance, and certainly does not imply any guilt on her part. If you prefer "the other...

I can sympathize with your difficulty. Were I arguing your side of the debate I would have given up some time ago.



Works for me.

Patrick Brinton

It is not a matter of belief that makes me refer to her as the accuser, it is the only description we know to be true. She may indeed establish the fact that she is a victim, but she may not. If she...

Thank you, Barry, for your research in response to my question (not complaint!). I had not realized just how many emergency calls the SPD responds to every year, so I do see that there are two sides...

This is the second time in as many days that you have presumed to direct my activities. You do realize, I trust, that WACCO has a mechanism by which you can block all posts from a particular person....

I am not sure why it is any concern of yours how I spend my time, but you may rest assured that I have many better things to do than count peoples' posts, which is why I am pleased that it is so easy...

I prefer the term "accuser" to "victim" to describe the person making the accusation. Calling her a victim presupposes that she is honest and accurately perceived what happened, and that the conduct...

Strident open-endedness? Unyielding about limitless possibilities? Do I really need to point out the absurdity here?

If I am to be counted among those you are complaining about, you are seriously...

Always happy to provide amusement. And yes, of course I realized it was a typo, but it seemed like a remarkably apposite one. Really, folks, lets keep our sense of humor.

Patrick Brinton

During the three weeks or so that I have been manning my photo show at the Risk Press Gallery (just up the hill from the Village Bakery) I would estimate that about every other day (and twice on at...

From a quick check of your posts it seems you have posted 19 times in the last month on this subject, which leads me to the conclusion that your "doing your best" to "wait until the Oct. 11 court...

This is taking on all the worst apects of an old fashioned lynch mob mentality. In an earlier post you falsely claimed that the delay in the proceedings was some kind of underhand maneuver on the...

An ad hominem attack would be to question someone's motives or character. Its less well-known variant, mentioned in another post by Sebastacat (sic), the ad homonym attack, would be to question...

While we are on the topic of Sebastacat's posts, may I offer feedback on something that has been bothering me for some time, which is his constant affectation of referring to himself in the third...

Really? This astonishes me. Insurance companies are in the business of insuring against risks of all kinds, and while they may charge a modest extra premuim for dogs, I would be amazed if they...

<br><br>The argument that having a bunch of armed people present would have ended the violence sooner because someone would have shot the assailant was effectively answered in the Arizona incident in...

Have we really sunk to this? Can we not have honest, rational public debate here? If this kind of nasty, cheap, dishonest and mean-spirited crap is what we can expect to be subjected to by clicking...

DAY THIRTY ONE: Pigs fly

DAY THIRTY TWO: Hell freezes over.

Patrick Brinton

Colleen, like it or not, he got 59% of the vote. By definition not enough people wanted someone else, or someone else would have been elected, or at least there would have been a runoff. You want to...

I can say with great pleasure that at last we have found a subject on which I can agree with you wholeheartedly!

Patrick Brinton

Now I am really puzzled. Every day I see posts from you in my Digest trumpeting Ron Paul and the Libertarian cause. Do not Libertarians believe in a much reduced government role (i.e. reduced...

I have to say that I come down on Clint's side in this. Does anyone seriously believe that newborn infants do not feel pain? I don't think that the idea that cutting off a body part (especially one...

I would offer a small improvement to your statement, which itself in its present form seems to me to fail the test of rationality. S/he does not have to explain migration through the skin, but rather...

Thanks for pointing that out, Miles; I see his name is in there, just not under the heading "Real Name" where I looked for it (and where it would show in the "hover box" that appears when you hover...

If my understanding of DNA sequencing is correct, this technique would not only establish this with near certainty, but also give a good approximation of when it diverged from terrestrial evolution....

From the number of times in your post that you tell us about the Union of Concerned Scientists and their 52 Nobel laureates, 63 National Medal of Science recipients, and 195 members of the National...

I don't understand the separation between the needs of men and the needs of women. I would say that everyone is entitled to all four of these virtues. Interest, attention, respect and trust are all...