Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick
We have rules in Marin. Here’s the latest: If you want to coach a kid’s team on a Mill Valley city sports field, you must first pass a government approved “diversity, equity and inclusion” training class.
Sounds reasonable, right?. But, you might think I’m making this up when I also tell you that you must repeat the training every 365 days. I kid you not.
In Mill Valley if you want to do your part for youth sports you must understand that in the wokery of modern culture new ideas hatch weekly as to what is diverse enough, equitable enough and inclusive enough. So, getting re-trained on the ever-moving standards is critical.
Afterall, it was only 15 minutes ago when knuckle-draggers actually believed the fastest woman swimmer in the world had to be a biological woman. Can you imagine having people coaching our kids who do not have their minds right on that new change?
Now that I think about it, it’s possible that in Marin re-education every 12 months may not be quite enough.
THE IRS THINKS OF YOU
When it rains it pours for taxpayers. In the middle of our big storms, California and Marin declared a state of emergency, which means among other things that the tax man in the form of the IRS is giving all California storm victims – including those in Marin – an extension until May 15 to file various federal individual and business tax returns and to make tax payments. The extension covers 2022 individual income tax returns that are due April 18 and 2022 business returns due March 15 or April 18.
Even in a state of emergency, the IRS is thinking of you. You gotta love it.
PIZZA DEFICIT
While there are many fine pizza joints in Marin, we are sorry to report that Mary’s Pizza Shack closed its shop in Novato. The sign unceremoniously posted on the door read: “Unfortunately, this was a necessary step as we continue restructuring our Noni’s family business amidst the challenges of rising food and labor costs.”
Two thoughts on this:
– The Novato City Council’s decision to raise the minimum wage above the state level was no doubt a factor for Mary’s. Perhaps not the deciding factor, but still a factor for which the Council turned a deaf ear.
– This may sound self-serving (because it is), but may I humbly suggest that in tough times the worst thing you can do is stop advertising. Marinscope’s weekly newspapers are here to help. Give us a try.
BIG COYOTE
We grow big, fat and happy coyotes in Marin. This note comes from the website Nextdoor, which I generally find populated by too many whiners and complainers for my taste. But this post was instructive, so I pass it along:
“Massive coyote near Kaiser Los Gamos. I was walking my dog today at 2 p.m. right by the Kaiser at Los Gamos when thankfully a passerby in a van shouted to warn me about a coyote up ahead. The thing was HUGE—nearly the size of my german shepherd. The coyote was at the corner across from the Kaiser parking lot, by the woods at the crosswalk with Lucas Valley Road. It was VERY active and out in broad daylight.”
ONE MORE THING
– Someone asked me what I did last weekend like I was some kind of mountain climber. I’m old. I was on a heating pad eating nachos and watching golf.
– Remember when you were little and you’d fall on the trampoline and everyone would keep jumping so you couldn’t get back up? Adult life feels like that sometimes.
– I’d tell you how we sold stuff before the internet, but it’s classified.
Thanks for reading us this week. As always,avoid soreheads, laugh a little, and question authority.
(“Properly Subversive” is a commentary written by Sherman R. Frederick for Marinscope Community Newspapers, the “mother ship” of the Novato Advance, San Rafael News-Pointer, Mill Valley Herald, Ross Valley Reporter, Twin City Times and the Sausalito Marin Scope. Mr. Frederick is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of Battle Born Media, a news organization dedicated to the preservation of community newspapers. You can reach him by email at shermfrederick@gmail.com.)
I thought this was satire. Sad that it’s not.
This is pathetic.
How DARE you insult this great writing like that?
Sherman Frederick is one of the last bastions of true red-blooded conservatism, and deserves praise for his willingness to subvert the “woke mob.”
Go back to Oregon, you effeminate, blue-haired libtard.
This article reads like some old coot complaining on his front porch