Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick Would anyone care to explain what Joe Biden’s re-election committee was thinking when they appropriated the heretofore derogatory term “Bidenomics” and made it the centerpiece of the 2024 presidential re-election campaign? Anyone? Seriously, I’m asking. … [Read more...] about Bidenomics, Jimmy Buffett in Marin, and what is the White House masking protocol?
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Bay Area bad guys hate traffic stops
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick The latest cause embraced by the “cops are racist” crowd comes in the California effort to stop police from pulling over vehicles involved in minor traffic infractions. The theory – advocated in an L.A. Times editorial and then reprinted in the … [Read more...] about Bay Area bad guys hate traffic stops
‘Let Biden/Harris finish the job’ — Is that a threat?
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick The re-elect Joe Biden Committee and its PR agency, the New York Times, can’t understand why Americans aren’t buying into Bidenomics. Why can’t the Average Joe and Josephine see how wages are up, jobs are plentiful and inflation has slowed? I’ll tell … [Read more...] about ‘Let Biden/Harris finish the job’ — Is that a threat?
My Turn: One day for Labor Day is not enough
My Turn/Andrew Moss The state of labor this year is so fraught, so weighted with issues and problems, that a single day of homage and reflection doesn’t seem enough. It’s as if a year or more is needed to engage the issues, challenges, and possibilities facing American workers today. Consider the … [Read more...] about My Turn: One day for Labor Day is not enough
It was not a ‘soiree,’ it was a lunch with libertarians and the governor’s office
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick I want to tell you that I sat in on an intimate soiree with Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo’s Chief of Staff Ben Kieckhefer for a Q&A on the state of the state. But as a young writer I had an editor once who jumped down my throat for incorrectly using … [Read more...] about It was not a ‘soiree,’ it was a lunch with libertarians and the governor’s office
Requiem for the Mohave’s Joshua tree
By Pepper TrailWriters on the Range Disheveled, gangly, the Joshua tree is surely one of the West's strangest — and most recognizable — plants. Named by Mormon pioneers for the prophet Joshua,whose upraised arms pointed to the promised land, Joshua trees are more likely to remind people today of … [Read more...] about Requiem for the Mohave’s Joshua tree
Marin is about to learn once again that in federal court the homeless are always more equal than permanent residents
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick You don’t need the powers of Nostradamus to know what’s likely to happen to San Rafael over its attempt to regulate homeless encampments. Homeless advocates asked for, and received, a temporary restraining order from a federal judge last week. … [Read more...] about Marin is about to learn once again that in federal court the homeless are always more equal than permanent residents
No. 1 rule in Marin: Don’t mess with seniors in the wild, especially when startled or threatened, or ‘how I got booed while speaking at the Novato Rotary Club’
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive I don’t often get booed when speaking publicly. That's mostly because I don’t often speak publicly. But, I was at the Sunrise Rotary Club on Tuesday talking to Rotarians at Moylan’s in Novato. The meeting started at 7 a.m. I arrived half an hour … [Read more...] about No. 1 rule in Marin: Don’t mess with seniors in the wild, especially when startled or threatened, or ‘how I got booed while speaking at the Novato Rotary Club’
Binford Road progress, more Nazi flyers in Marin and John Kerry is the wrong guy for Joe Biden’s ‘starve people to save the planet’ message.
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick Life ain’t fair. We know this from a number of things. Joe Biden, who can’t find his way off stage and habitually mixes up Ukraine with Iran as he reads major speeches on a teleprompter, is the leader of the free world. How in a just world did … [Read more...] about Binford Road progress, more Nazi flyers in Marin and John Kerry is the wrong guy for Joe Biden’s ‘starve people to save the planet’ message.
100 years ago: Novato canal nears completion
Mike Read/Pages From The Past 100 Years Ago August 1923 – Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeLong, old friends of judge Herman Rudolff, and former Novato-ites have taken up their summer residence in San Rafael. – Novato Canal Nearing Completion – The canal being cut through the Wright & Owens … [Read more...] about 100 years ago: Novato canal nears completion