Independence Day "A republic, if you can keep it." The SF Chronicle wasn't too optimistic that we could. "Our elections and our legislative decisions are becoming more and more dominated by big-money interests, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court all but eviscerated post-Watergate compaign-finance laws...Too many students are graduating from high school with an insufficient appreciation of U.S. history and civics. Our civil liberties have been under serious strain since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks...domestic surveillance, phone-record data-collection--and the continued presence of a legal netherworld at Guantanamo Bay...Keeping a republic is hard work, and patriotism is not measured by how much red, white and blue is exhibited on the Fourth..."
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I don't think this is the kind of community-provided bench the SF Chronicle was talking about today in its article https://www.sfchronic...
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I'm just back from The Legion of Honor, where some friends and I saw the Louvre collection amassed by Louis XIV-Louis XVI--proof... -
I had the vague recollection that Charlie Sava, whose eponymous pool is across the street from me, was a coach, and I finally got around to ...
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