Bookworm on Jul 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
In Marin, 9 out of 10 bumperstickers one sees are liberal in context. Make that 9.9 out of 10.
There’s the “Endless This War” sticker; and the still popular “Somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot” sticker; and the saccharine, unrealistic and facile “Coexist,” with the symbols of various religions used in lieu of [...]
Bookworm on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Gun control, San Francisco
That the North Bay region (SF, Marin, etc.) will send a Democrat to the California Senate in November goes without saying. What’s interesting is that North Bay Democrats selected the most extremely Progressive (read: far Left) of the three people vying for that seat (Carole Migden, Joe Nation and Mark Leno). I [...]
Bookworm on May 25 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
One of Tom Lehrer’s more bizarre songs was an early ditty called “My Home Town,” in which he sang rhapsodically about all the bizarre and criminal behavior exhibited by his town’s denizens:
I really have a yen
To go back once again,
Back to the place where no one wears a frown,
To see once more those super-special just [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2008 | Filed under: Military
The other day, I had a delightful lunch with Staff Sargeant Jason Eck, the Army’s recruiter in Marin. I wrote about it here, at Pajamas Media.
Bookworm on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
Greenies are always encouraging people to abandon their cars and opt for alternative, group transportation, such as buses, trains, carpools, etc. In the San Francisco Bay Area, one of those alternative forms of transportation is the ferry.
Up in Marin, if they use the ferry, drivers can avoid endless traffic jams over the Golden Gate Bridge [...]
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