{"id":34649,"date":"2020-02-02T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=34649"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:13:52","slug":"gloomy-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=34649","title":{"rendered":"Gloomy observations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The shoulder of Highway 1 uphill from downtown Point Reyes Station is not all that wide, as one unfortunate couple discovered Saturday. I have no idea why they left the road.<\/em><\/p>\n

Creeping discrimination:<\/strong> We’ve all heard President Trump railing against refugees from south of the border because, according to him, many of them are murders and rapists. And last week he banned immigrants from still more Muslim countries as supposed threats to national security. Now, if you believe the headlines, the State of California wants to take all this a step further and get rid of all its teenagers.<\/p>\n

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San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 29, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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Teenagers, I suppose, have always been considered troublemakers, but how far should we go in protecting ourselves? Perhaps we could let most of them remain in California but keep them under house arrest.<\/p>\n

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It certainly seems as if the sun is setting on that promising new world in which I grew up.<\/i><\/p>\n

Many in the country,<\/strong> though, have been working hard on electoral matters, including informing voters who have been “deregistered” in various Republican-controlled states (i.e. letting them know how to check their registration to make they can vote). Voter suppression has been a method of disenfranchisement for almost as long as the Republic has stood, but now it is being confronted by various groups, including The Center for Common Ground’s Reclaim Our Vote project. Residents involved with Indivisible West Marin organized a talk last week by Andrew Miller, the ROV founder. There are ways to help<\/a>, from telephoning to post carding to texting voters in other states. All hope is not lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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