Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Both kids started texting me a few minutes ago, which came as a surprise, since they’re not supposed to text while class is in session. In fact, class is not in session. Instead, the school is in lock-down. The rumor amongst the kids, all of whom are madly texting each
Continue readingOver the past several years, our town and the next town over have worked hard to bring disaster preparedness from the government level down to the community level. Neighborhood emergency disaster preparedness operates on the assumption that, in the event of a major emergency, government will not be there to
Continue readingOne of the things we’ve always noticed when we’ve traveled to America’s magnificent state and national parks is that we see almost no black or Hispanic faces and, when we see Asian faces, they’re almost invariably Japanese tourists. The vast bulk of the visitors at these parks are white middle
Continue readingOne of the things Democrats generally and Obama specifically are trying to do is to concentrate more Americans into cities. Suburbs are seen as dangerous bastions of privilege, conservativism, individualism, and racism where people do un-green things such as driving cars to their single-family homes. This video, for example, shows
Continue readingOne of the nice things about my hometown is the fact that, wherever people walk their dogs, local taxpayers fund stations where you can get a plastic bag to gather dog poop and then throw those poop-filled bags away in a conveniently located garbage can. To the extent that making
Continue readingI’ve had a very nice Christmas, both Eve and Day. I also had a very Marin Christmas. I was at a party this afternoon and met some very nice people. In a discussion about rising college prices, one man told me that this problem resulted from income inequality. He was
Continue readingI went to a Safeway in Mill Valley because it was convenient. When I got to the check-out, I was reminded why I never shop at that Safeway: their town council banned plastic bags and you get charged five cents per bag for a paper bag. Next year, all of
Continue readingI may not agree with Marin politically (it’s roughly 70% to the Left of Left, despite the rampant capitalism that supports its infrastructure), but it is a fabulous place to raise children. Sure, there are problems with drugs and drinking (lots of them), but the fact remains that if you
Continue readingThis one just made me laugh. What I couldn’t get as I was scrambling at a red light to take the photograph was that, in the upper left hand corner of this truck’s rear window was a macho bumper sticker that said something along the lines of “You never see
Continue readingPeople in Marin have been extremely upset about the decision Ken Salazar (Secy of the Interior) made to shut down Drakes Bay Oyster Co. The oyster company is a fixture in Point Reyes, and has been sustainably harvesting oysters for decades. It is insufficiently pure for ObamaWorld, though, so it’s
Continue readingYesterday, I posted about the result of California’s open primary in Marin: two Democrats running against each other for the California Assembly. My post was about the problem that this creates for those people whose party has been shut out of the election. The net effect of open primaries is
Continue readingMarin County — blessed by nature and haven to the rich. It’s where I live. My house is blessed by nature and my neighborhood is a haven to the Marin middle class (a middle class that works ridiculously hard and pays obscene sums of money for the pleasure of living
Continue readingI am very, very proud of an old friend of mine. Like me, he’s a conservative in Marin. Unlike me, he’s burst out of the political closet. Tim Amyx will now be blogging on a weekly basis at the Mill Valley Patch, a local Marin online publication that comes out
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