Amid the hair-on-fire frenzy that climate change is dooming the planet are a number of Good News Clues overlooked or ignored by celebrity influencers that strongly suggest the climate will take care of itself, thank-you-very-much. Those distracted by the start of football season may have... Continue
Snark Infested Waters
Since the Events of January 6, 2021, the cri de cœur for Democrats and various other leftists/liberals/socialists/communists has been to "hold those responsible Accountable!" But free-speech America is awash in conflict, and many see no good reason to get excited about a few tourists in... Continue
Even if the Supreme Court does not nullify the 13th Amendment next year to again legalize slavery and involuntary servitude, Americans will still be able to volunteer to work for nothing. Which is essentially what candidates for a seat on Sonoma City Council agree to... Continue
Banned for two years because of The Plague, our local celebration of the Greatest Nation On Earth (if you don't count Canada) will see the return of Sonoma's traditional Olde Time 4th of July Home-Town Parade and Fireworks Show. Yes, despite another variant threatening to... Continue
As many predicted, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has become a dangerous embarrassment, reveling in a medieval Christo-fascist worldview that once burned ‘heretics’ like Joan of Arc at the stake, routinely drowned women as witches and filled the death camps at Auschwitz and... Continue
We are constantly reminded that Planetary Doom is inevitable if we don't get our greenhouse-gassing/carbon-emitting/arctic-melting/deforestating/overfishing/over-eating/under-exercising/over-dumping and plastic under control by 2050. After that, the planet as we know it (yes, even the Plaza) will become a giant Apocalyptic movie set. And Humans with our gassy/trashy/smashy/TicToc... Continue
Parents in Sonoma Valley can relax: There is NO truth to rumors that school trustees are heading to Afghanistan to learn how to run a decent school district. At least it wasn't mentioned in the superintendent's recent letter to parents, sent after yet another wave... Continue
I passed Cap'n Snark on the Plaza recently and made the mistake of nodding “hello.” Immediately he restrained me by the elbow and launched into one of his high-decibel rants. “Them rules about humane war is messin' up this Ukraine thing!" “OK .... Continue
Many are concerned that our nation is descending into civil war or – even worse – another mask mandate. Adding to anxiety is imminent war in Ukraine, that favorite invasion route to and from Europe for Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Hitler. In 1991, Ukraine declared... Continue
2022 is only weeks old and even cynics must admit that it is shaping up to be a Great Good News Year. Considering what we've been through in the last -- what? -- five, ten, 240 years, we can probably all agree that we deserve... Continue