Nathan Van Wormer; Dispelling Misconceptions in OB
Update San Diego 11/03/2010
On Jerry Brown - Father Pat Brown, married Bernice layne in October 1930, had a law practice in 1943. Spent 23 years as a elected official, 7 years as district attorney general, eight years as attorney general and eight years …
Why Do Unpopular Incumbent Supervisors Horn and Roberts have Such a Strong Solid Lead in This Race?
Wow, what a surprise our very unpopular Supervisors, Bill Horn and Ron Roberts are solidly winning their races.....again. Could it be because the registrar of voters is their "employee"? Horn and Roberts hired Seiler. She works for them and has …
As a Citizen Activist....Sharing My Research and Endorsements of Candidates and Props
Happy Election Day!!!! Every election day people get sort of excited to voice make their voices heard. They proudly wear their "I voted" stickers to let everyone know they are concerned and active citizens participating in their world. This is …
during the dappled days
the trees won't disagree they dance to their own rhyme and meter sweet fall breezes fan their fire displaying a quilt of fallen colours upon the trail let the others push on ahead of us as we whisper to eachother …
Short Thesis Summary of T. N. Dupuy's A GENIUS FOR WAR
NB: I am posting this because there seems to be an overly-romanticized local view that Nazi influence in Germany was a desirable thing, that full employment for any purpose is always justified when part of that purpose is stifling dissent. …
TRYING TO MAKE A DOVETAIL JOINT
Fixing a hole in the ocean, trying to make a dovetail joint, lookin’ through a glass onion" - John Lennon from "Glass Onion" TRYING TO MAKE A DOVETAIL JOINT My vote on the marijuana law is a resounding RIGHT ON, …
Who Runs Our Elections and How Safe Actually are They?
I have been a bit of a broken record on this subject but I feel it is WAY too important to ignore. Studying your ballot books and doing your homework does absolutely NO good if our elections are not honest. …
Rite of Spring
One morning when we were living in Louisville, Kentucky for two years, my daughter, Daisy, and I took our Malamute, Buddy, for his daily walk. It was early November and the leaves had already changed into their dying colors and …
Update San Diego, 11/01/2010
Went to a Budget Town Hall Meeting on Thursday 10/28/10. The reason for this meeting was to "fulfill the governments responsibility to educate the public about the potential impacts of these cuts so that you can make informed decisions". With …
What Power Do We The People Have? Maybe More Than Civic Leaders Want Us To Know?
I wrote the following as a part of the comment threat to Don Bauder's Scam Diego blog post "Would Spelling Lessons Affect the Library?": There are ideas in this comment thread that deserve not to die. While Urban Corps may …
SDG&E: CPUC Must Do What Law Does And Does Not Allow
In a recent decision to deny the P1007016 petition regarding fair individual metering of apartment family units, attorneys for San Diego Gas & Electric Company argued in opposition that California's Public Utilities Commission cannot do what the law does not …
Neighborhood of Quiet Desperation
Neat. Orderly. Quiet but for the intermittent high-rev blasts of black, plastic-phallused leaf blowers and caws of an exponentially increasing population of crows, Del Mar Heights sits comfortably wedged atop a mesa west of Interstate 5, one mile east of …
Halloween during hard times is still good times
It's Halloween night! And it was a cool autumn night at the harvest festival at Christian Fellowship Church, which is just around the corner from my house in Serra Mesa. This is the second year my family and I have …
Homelessness: A Modest Proposal
As a service to the community and hopefully at relatively low cost, could it be possible that the Board of Trustees of the San Diego Community College District consider the usage of the Harry West Gym as a continuing education …
UFO Sighted In Encantostan
The recent wet weather in San Diego has caused new plants to germinate. Everything is green now, and the species-specific insects in love with purple and violet flowers must be enjoying all of this. Many years ago, there would be …
Post-Application Pondering
When I was a child, I thought that I knew what love was. It was simple: pancakes on a Saturday morning, lazy days by the pool, and frantically pedaling a tiny water craft at Poway Lake during vacation. This city…in …
My Halloween trip back in time to Juarez Elementary
Patrick Henry High School had a pep rally and Halloween costume day on Friday. I went as myself. It was also the day of the homecoming game. My older brother went and left early cause our team was gettint trounced. …
A World Within Its Self
The Political Egghead
voting time reappears it's hard to avoid the confusion the candidates all seem sincere their stories they're all spinning come with happy endings so perceive the fatuous jokes and avoid the rotten yolks you can tell them by the smell …