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Blessings and Hope for the New Year

I think the drawing says it. All I have to add is wish for peace and prosperity for my secular, humanist, progressive friends. And for my Christian friends, Merry Christmas. May the Lord bless you and keep all of you.

By | December 23rd, 2010|0 Comments

Petaluma: City of Light

Hi All. After a mandatory "sabbatical," during which time I was cloistered in a monastery for cartoonists who've run afoul of local politics I'm back. A month-long diet of crow, punctuated by hourly flagellation with torn pieces of the First Amendment, has left me suitably chastened. Of course, since David Rabbit won, it was worth it. I have nothing to add to last week's cartoon. The city's infrastructure is indeed suffering thanks to the know-nothings on the City Council who - after all these years - are still unable to correlate the revenues from a robust business climate with running a city in the black.

By | December 20th, 2010|0 Comments

Winning – the Good News and the Bad News

Good luck to all those who won, whether I voted for you or not. Before the election you had supporters and you had opponents. Once you've won your opponents haven't changed much, but your supporters are another case entirely. If they don't get what they think you promised in about...a week...they'll start whining, back-biting, and nay-saying. Before you know it, you're former cheerleaders will be asking for your head.

By | November 6th, 2010|0 Comments

A Poetic Little Town

Tomorrow is the Petaluma Poetry Walk. Whether you skip in iambic or wander in free verse get your couplets downtown and share the day with your fellow language lovers. English is a magical and wondrous tool with which to express oneself. Revel in it.

By | September 18th, 2010|0 Comments

Sam and Ella Visit Petaluma

Salmonella is another good reason to buy local food. At least if you get sick you can go throw up on their doorstep. Seriously, I believe that the closer one is to the source of the food, the healthier the food is likely to be. Or at least, the least adulterated, mishandled or misrepresented. I only wish that farmer's markets were more frequent, and that local farmers were better compensated for their investment in sweat and cash. You can thank our nanny-state progressives for the restrictive laws and regulations that have made local small (e.g., non-agribusiness) farming increasingly a rich man's hobby.

By | September 4th, 2010|0 Comments

Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here

Well, race fans, it's a crowded field for the upteenth running of the biannual Petaluma Freakness. Got to love the free-for-all nature of participatory democracy.

By | August 27th, 2010|0 Comments

Public Double-Talk – Smart Growth

It's fascinating the way that political movements hide their agendas under a smokescreen of euphemistic or outright fraudulent terminology. This is true of all shades of the political spectrum so spare me are outraged polemic about how I'm always teeing off on the Progressives, though they make it so hard not to.

By | June 15th, 2010|0 Comments

The Party’s Over…Not.

Political campaign fatigue has set in and we're just getting started. The summer promises to be a tsunami of charged rhetoric, heated hyperbole, furious mud-slinging, and rank partisans accusing each other of rank partisanship. Perhaps we can hope for a few voices for genuine change.

By | June 10th, 2010|0 Comments

2010 Graduates: Welcome to the Future

It's that time of year when bright-eyed kids say goodbye to their old school and look ahead, often with a mixture of excitement and anxiety, at their future. Countless valedictory speeches will speculate on the myriad of challenges and opportunities that the graduating seniors will encounter. However, one thing will be true for them as was for you and me...the future probably won't work out exactly as they plan. With any luck, and with God's blessing, it will be better.

By | June 3rd, 2010|0 Comments

Endorsement Intrigue

Also noted - Janice Cader Thompson endorsed Ms. Torliatt for County Supe. A vote for Pam is an expression of hope that she will do for the whole county what she's helped to do to Petaluma. Think about it.

By | May 20th, 2010|0 Comments