Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick (Spoiler alert: For the humor impaired the following is offered at year’s end for your reading pleasure to poke a little fun – just a teenie-weenie bit! – at our insatiable drive toward ultimate enlightenment and wokeness.) It’s as plain as the … [Read more...] about Climate change, reparations … and taco equity?
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Properly Subversive: Do you believe the president when he says food prices are headed down?
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick With apologies to Art Linkletter (Google him, kids) President Joe Biden says the darndest things. Last week he said this with an absolute straight face: "Like we were doing before I got elected president, inflation at the grocery store is, thank … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: Do you believe the president when he says food prices are headed down?
Properly Subversive: Is Marin really saving the planet one leaf blower at a time?
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick At the risk of sounding like a lone wolf howling at shadows in Marin’s vast wilderness of virtue signalling, may I respectfully ask for a smidge of sanity to show we’re not as delusional as we sound when we claim to save the planet one gas-powered leaf … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: Is Marin really saving the planet one leaf blower at a time?
Properly Subversive: Bill Clinton remains a tired relic of a time when women in the White House were prey
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick Once again the hypocrisy of politics trotted out the former womanizer-in-chief Bill Clinton to rustle up votes to re-elect New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. And, it worked. Good for Gov. Hochul. Very bad for society. I mean, honestly, Bill Clinton? We know … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: Bill Clinton remains a tired relic of a time when women in the White House were prey
Properly Subversive: Remember this on Veteran’s Day
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick (Editor’s note: This week I’m giving over my regular column space to Joseph Reagan, Director of Military and Veterans Outreach for Wreaths Across America and Afghanistan Veteran. I found it worthy of your attention and I hope you enjoy it. I’ll be back … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: Remember this on Veteran’s Day
Properly Subversive: We’ll regret this lousy homeless ‘process’
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive People in power never quite get it – the ends just don’t justify the means. Nothing will illustrate that principle better, I fear, than the Homekey homeless program that’s getting crammed down the throats of Greenbrae residents. This location – 1251 … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: We’ll regret this lousy homeless ‘process’
Properly Subversive: Let’s be honest about Marin ‘electrification’ — we’re boiling frogs here for so little gain it can’t be measured
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive On Nov. 15 the County Board of Supervisors will consider a new law to take another step in the “electrification” of Marin. The supervisors appear enthused, news reports indicate, and after passage they will try to convince every other Marin government to … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: Let’s be honest about Marin ‘electrification’ — we’re boiling frogs here for so little gain it can’t be measured
Properly Subversive: Racism is where you find it
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick Liberal Los Angeles City Councimembers caught using racist language to describe colleagues are under fire from no less than the president of the United States. City Council President Nury Martinez, Councilman Kevin de Leon and Councilman Gil Cedillo, … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: Racism is where you find it
Properly Subversive: What would ‘equity’ disaster relief look like, exactly?
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick When California favorite daughter Kamala Harris talks about dispersing federal disaster aid based on “equity”, it sounds silly. And, to be perfectly honest, a bit icky. Do you think she hears herself when she says race-based stuff like … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: What would ‘equity’ disaster relief look like, exactly?
Properly Subversive: Exactly how many Black people in Marin need mental care?
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick With tongue firmly planted in cheek, may I ask how many Black people in Marin are mentally ill? Is it more or less than white people? Where do Hispanics fit into the mental health equity spectrum? That’s one question that sticks out as Marin County … [Read more...] about Properly Subversive: Exactly how many Black people in Marin need mental care?