ah, the ironic sarcasm.

sad, the a******* won. We just get used to it. I woulda loved to see those old building fixed up and used for useful purposes, not torn down so a mega corp could rip off more people. I'm boycotting....

Like your idea, here is my silly take on stuff. Evidently Carlin had lots of stuff. I think you can find his stuff piece on you tube ~ rn

enough stuff

what if we didn't buy stuff
what if folks...

Speaking of unsustainable business, Mcdonalds is closed. Does anyone know what will happen to that site?
30 years ago we fought to keep mcd out of town, and although we kept it from being built at...

closure cancelled.

Mexico, the saving could pay for the trip, depending on what you need done, of course

Sonoma County Conservation Action scorecard for Efren 2013/14

Environmental C-
listens to contituents D-

I had some concerns about Noreen running, but that was when I thought we might have another qualified candidate named Sarah Gurney, but she is not interested and Noreen is definitely qualified,...

I again state what to me is obvious. Regardless whether the pricing is a mistake or not, it still amazes me that so many people support an overpriced store whose CEO is against things like affordable...

This is from Wkipedia

Criticism and controversy[edit]Whole Foods has frequently been the subject of resistance or boycotts in response to proposed store locations.[99][100][101][102] The...

Yes on all counts. Spiritual people and communities come in all colors and shades of enlightened or not, good bad or indifferent or not, just like everyone else. I'm not even sure what it means but...

Aside from the issue of cheating customers and the big fines for "mistakes", I still fail to understand how our enlightened community can support a company with big markups and a right wing owner.

Perhaps some are and some are not concerned about price. They should be concerned that the 300% or 400% markup on some phoney drink is going into the pocket of a very wealthy and very right wing...

I continue to be surprised at the number of people in our hip town that shop at Whole Paycheck.
Community Market is a better place, not being owned by a wealthy right winger, but they should trying...

Thanks for this wonderful reply. I wanna go, where is this Island?
My wife and I have hiked in Ireland a fair amount, she is from Dublin with bunches of family there.
They have a wonderful trails...

If nothing else, you have pointed out how complicated the simple act of walking has become. Over population may be the problem and in the US, who knows? Can someone with some social anthropology (is...

Probably the right tack to take. It is a shame that we cannot be more like parts of Europe, where hiking on private land is a given. Check out Sweden's Open Land Policy (or another Scandinavian...

You may have a way to keep this easement. It's called prescriptive rights, and it has to do with a long established right to pass that has not been historically posted "no trespass". Do a little...

Good. One wonders why. Have we reached saturation? Water issues? Hopefully Dairyman is next.

Wendell Berry brings it down to the simplest, understandable and most elegant.
"Reduced to the scale of our competence",
In other words: Think globally, act locally.

I've lost faith in our Supes and don't trust them to use the money wisely. I've voted NO on prop A

I've stood on that point many times, and the spot that collapsed is/was a sheer cliff of about 25 feet. Arch Rock, actually a small point, is very popular, being the terminus of the Bear Valley...

Not only no paddle, but no boat to float. If the dems controlling state government don't get with it, we are in for major upheavals. Frankly, it should stop growth in its tracks everywhere in the...

Since I'm sort of thin skinned, I've been offended personally many times, but I realize that induldging in feeling offended has little value, for me at least, and since it has no value, it seems...

Funny thing, I more or less started this conversation out of some comment in the Dairyman thread, but I wasn't talking about tiny houses (like the concept) but about a small house project house of...

I have long thought that Sebtown should consider a small house development with houses in the 400 to 800 sq foot range with community open space and gardens with not a lot of private space around the...

There seem to be varying numbers on water use, but they are all huge. Bill used 29 gals, I used 31. Based on the number, 31 per glass, used in piece below, this is what it is for the winery

31...

Check this out. How much water are we using?


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/22/world-water-day-2011-cost-footprint_n_839189.html

No Barry, this is not NIMBY. This is about keeping the integrity of open space and community separators. This is so new that people will have to take some time to analyze it further. The first...

Barry, you will be hearing many objections to this monster.

Bad bad bad for many reasons, but for me two stand out: 1. impact on the trail. 2. We don't want community separators filling up with this kind of thing. Open space means open space and many people...

I'm not at all offended. You Rustie, are full of assumptions about who people are, and your atitude is very condescending. But that must be becuasre of your superior intellect. Anyway, i'm...

I've never been called or considered myself "privileged" before. If working in and with the community for over 30 years, going to meetings, co-founding an activist committee, and working to get good...

I'm not a fan of late mailers, but I don't see this as particularly mean and not out of the Rove playbook. The piece is simply stating the opinion of the signers, who genuinely believe that Jonathan...

I've got one also

I need a new poem

not like the last one
something fresh
unpublished
something with a tinge of god
or trees
or mint crushed by a footstep

Alright Jonathan, I'll bite. I will answer your questions if you will answer questions I have raised in this forum. I am speaking for myself and not SebTom.

Here they are:
Do you have a list of...

You got me rossman. I should have said I don't know anyone in Sebastopol who is opposed to the hospital being opened. Jim Horn is the only Hospital District candidate who seems to understand that...

For a full discussion on the various benefits of trails - economic, social and health - look here:

https://www.americantrails.org/resources/benefits/

Jonathan, thanks. I've never been called "attack dog" before. Is that an attack on my character?
In the case of Helen, who is 80, has a broken hip, and still has a fire in her belly, I say yeah, go,...

No one doubts Jonathans efforts regarding the library, including raising 10K from a prominent West County couple.
What is being taken exceeption to is his claim that he "…led the challenging...

It only makes me wonder if Progressive Sebastopol is running on all cylinders

Opps, Progressive Sebastopol has changed its' mind. It is now in favor of Prop 45. Oh dear, what is a poor uninformed...

Dr. Powers is not the problem. I would asked him to distance himself from the false claim that Jim Horn is an opponent of opening the ER. He should be worried that he is tainted by false claims by...

It is a complete fabrication to say that Jim Horn is a "leading opponent of reopening an emergency room", and I for one do not appreciate the overblown claims made by Mr. Greenberg. Horn is fully in...

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Read the minutes of the CC meeting of May 6, 2014 and you will see that the CC gave lengthy time to public comments, supported the move to open the hospital, and they are in no way neutral. Attacking...

So did I.

Your post cracked me up. You must know that WACCO folk take things very seriously, so seriously that sometimes they can't see an obvious send-up. But then Colleen, bless her heart, is a self...

I object to the notion that the district board wants the hospital closed and that their actions were self serving. Continued attacks only make things worse and perpetuates the rift. The foundation...

Ya got me, I'm way in over my head. I'm going at right angles??? Arrrggg, I'm morphing. Yes, aesthetics are difinitely arbitrary, and communities can have horrible tastes, or not.

I'm not implying any of that, but a community has an obligation and a right to require some responsible actions of a property owner, otherwise zoning we mean nothing and we could have junk yards,...