Last year in the 4AM fire evacuation we lucked out, finding friends in Santa Rosa in a non-evac area who would let us use their spare room. This year, not an option, because of the virus. I heard...

Stuart Kiehl has been accused of not doing his homework re. the trail situation. I disagree. To him, his homework consists of rereading his own emails over and over, kinda like the teacher making you...

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...

I have to admit to a bias on this issue: I agree almost all of the time with Podfish's balanced rationality.

Apart from that, I have only this to add: When I hear Agenda 21 invoked, I ask myself a...

All things are possible with God or the World Wide Web. But I'm more than mildly dubious. If this is a conspiracy of the lumber companies to loosen forestry regulations, I'd think it'd cost them a...

Your URL took me to a Youtube commercial for Hulu, so I remain unenlightened. But as i recall, the Rothchilds were the ones who faked the moon landing, shot Kennedy, pulled off 9/11, and financed...

Friends—

With our second novel Galahad’s Fool coming out in June, we’ve just updated the e-book price for our first, Realists. Through the end of April, it’s FREE.

We’d love you to read it. You...

I'm sure the gun industry would love the gun-control movement to be funded from kids' weekly allowances, which would barely rent one porta-potty on the Washington Mall. Thank heaven there are some...

>>>And after we appeal the 2nd, it is so much easier to appeal the 1st. Ask any Jew that was in Germany before WWII.

The "slippery slope" argument has a long and honorable lineage. It got us into...

Hello—

DamnedFool.com is our new blog, posted weekly on Sundays. It’s a companion to the website of The Independent Eye, which spans the huge stash of our theatre work over the past 43 years....

https://www.spiritrock.org/calendarDetails?EventID=5908>>>...Give us a word that describes whatever it is that allows some men to believe that they can display to or impose on any woman with impunity...

>>> Caucasian men however may not have that because of the culture they were raised in...

Last time I checked, so-called Caucasian men have been raised in an incredible diversity of cultures. A...

>>>It's going to be an uphill climb ridding men of the notion that they are entitled to behave this way. It involves the entire culture.

My only deep concern with a great deal of feminist...

Friends—

This began as an email to my kids, but went on from there. For what it's worth—

Well, I voted. Other than writing a few posts and making a short YouTube piece, that’s all I did, so...

>>>I find SM extremely dangerous, especially for women. It’s a political issue and it’s either allowed or not. You allow it. If I were running the board I’d censor it. As a radical Lesbian Feminist I...

I say: Nuke the sun!

Yes, there's a war on cops.

It's sponsored by the NRA, putting so many guns on the streets that cops are wise to be totally freaked by anything that looks vaguely pointy.

-Conrad

This is Elizabeth -- I just got home from SWMC after my second hip replacement, went in Monday morning at 6 AM, home Tuesday afternoon by 1:30. I don't want to address the fiscal issues here,...

To all my West County friends, from Elizabeth Fuller –

I want to shout out a big public thank-you to Sonoma West Medical Center for the excellent experience I just had with my total hip...

Jill Stein is a perfectly nice person with all the right ideas. Voting her for President? Well, hey, why not vote for me? I'm a perfectly nice person with all the right ideas. Downside, of course, is...

With due respect to those who're posting on this thread, the whole issue of the CVS site has been the subject of months & months of controversy, on Wacco and elsewhere. If you want to get the full...

Not that I have any expertise in the political process, but I try. So here’s my thought about what Bernie Sanders should best do if he doesn’t win the nomination.

Pushing for progressive platform...

Not that I have any expertise in the political process, but I try. So here’s my thought about what Bernie Sanders should best do if he doesn’t win the nomination.

Pushing for progressive platform...

Best if it's horizontal and six feet under.

I don't like to sound uncharitable, but after 18 minutes of this one gets just a wee bit homicidal. Not to mention that we're registering for him as...

Shandi—

I'm confused about elements of your post. You said it was censored, but I received about four copies of it.

More to the point: I couldn't quite discern the nature of the Red Pill...

Elizabeth here --

I did the same thing with the same results. "Cannot establish a secure connection." And on the phone a very nice lady checked and assured me that my registration was Dem, also...

>>>]And here is something telling:
>>>>>>She [Evans] said Wednesday she now supports a ban on GMO plants and crops in Sonoma County, saying there’s no proof that altered crops are completely safe...

Dear Heavenly Father,

I wonder if by Your Grace You might clarify a confusion in my mind. Last night, watching the news, I heard a candidate giving You thanks and full, heartfelt...

I sent this letter to Mr. Nutt & Ms. Froschl, the signatories of the quoted response. My own concern is not so much with the trees themselves as with the whole bland design. Like the ubiquitous...

Is there someone familiar with the project who could explain the reasoning behind the proposed tree removal? It's liable to be rather ineffective to be against something unless one understands the...

I've refrained from comments on the debates, but my friend the Fool offered some perspective (from DamnedFool.com)—

— From the Fool —
I don't watch TV very much. There's supposed to be funny...

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My personal opinion on the Paris agreement.

The critiques from those who damn it are basically accurate. It sets lower goals than needed. It has few mandatory requirements. And...

I follow the logic of this only halfway. There is indeed a need for institutions or occasions something to instill the purpose and value of following the law, insofar as that means a responsibility...

It's a humbling notion to realize that we've lived in Sonoma County 15 years, done many theatrical productions here, earned a living as theatre professionals, produced a radio show for four years,...

Well, he may have a point: was poor Donnie Trump, as an infant, vaccinated? If not autism, that might be the only explanation for egomaniacal, solipsistic bloat.

My friend Barnett lost his parents to the flu. They were mean bastards, so he knew they were in Hell.

But he loved them, so he vowed to dig them out. He found a soft spot in the back yard and...

We have been in the care of Barry Green for years, and in our long lives he's the best we've ever had. Total recommendation. -- Elizabeth Fuller

(For the past 20 months, we've posted a regular weekly blog, of which the Fool is one voice. We'll post the Fool's thoughts here weekly. If you want to read the whole thing, subscribe at...

It's not a symbol of Southern pride. It's not a symbol of racism. It's not a symbol of slavery or hate or the stars in the sky.

Or it is. It's what you read into it. That's what a symbol is. It's...

I have mixed feelings about the law, about the safety of some vaccination procedures & oversights, and about the consequences of non-vaccination. What's impressed me in the whole Wacco discussion of...

Elizabeth again:

I am on a limited income and use most of my "free" time to grow as much of my own goods as possible, and believe me, that takes a lot. I tried Community Market and REALLY wanted...

(Elizabeth here) --

I go to Andy's for most of my veggies, amplifying this with the superb greens at the Sunday Market, and I subscribe to Laguna Farm's CSA. My most frequent purchases are at...

Hi, y'all, Elizabeth here --

As a long-ago and long-time attender of Friends Meeting (Quakers), I have really appreciated the most recent drift toward balance. You know, this might actually work...

>>>my gut says it will fail again.<<<

I'd have that checked. You're probably okay, but you never know.
-Conrad

You should rest assured about Agenda 21. It’s been on the books for 20+ years, it’s an open text, it’s a non-binding agreement, and it’s been signed by representatives of 180 countries -- not all...

My impression is that a "charlatan" is someone who pretends he's something he's not, or hypes a tonic he knows is horse piss. Simply being wrong about a dietary supplement, a deity, or a carpet...

from Elizabeth Fuller --

Crunch time — hey, everybody with a phone: the vote on fast-tracking TPP is coming right up. Letters are apparently better than phone calls, but there isn't time (and...

Going to sit down this morning to my writing session at the Sebastopol library — it having been closed on Sunday and Monday — I see it's closed. So we celebrate the legacies of M.L. King and Cesar...

For the signage to be truly appropriate and organic with the architecture of the Barlow, I would suggest that it consist of huge block letters, the full length of the tin walls, saying SARDINES.
...

(Elizabeth here) --

Ted, thanks for this thoughtful and articulate post. When I think of delightful visual art in conjunction with Sebastopol, I think of the Coyote mural on the blank side of...