Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

pertaining to government, the public sector, governance, democracy, politics, issues pertaining to such, like “freedom of speech” concepts

Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Kent Lockhart, Danny McCalister, LenRay McCalister

Posted on December 11, 2020 by markweiss86

LenRay McCalister has died, age 49. His brother Stanley was my teammate for Gunn basketball, and his oldest brother Danny McCalister was a star of the Gunn Titans first championship basketball team, 22-5 in 1979-1980. There were six McCalister brothers … Continue reading →

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The Looters, 2020; or, using Terman to sort racists, proposed

Posted on December 3, 2020 by markweiss86

  I woke today (Wednesday, named for Odin a Norse God) reaching first mentally then physically for my Bevington, the Complete Works of Shakespeare, specifically honing in on “The Merchant of Venice” and that line. What is it:If you prick … Continue reading →

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Tracy Chapman, ‘Baby Can I Hold You’, 1988 and 2020 VS Pop Smoke posthumous New Yorker review, August, 2020

Posted on November 23, 2020 by markweiss86

I found a copy of The New Yorker in a free library two blocks from my house and tore out pp 78-79 to read or reread about Pop Smoke. I own a Pop Smoke t-shirt. I bought it on the … Continue reading →

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I pay estimated taxes every quarter for my small Palo Alto music business, but apparently Castilleja School because it packs Palo Alto leadership with insiders, paid $250k by check seven years and three days ago, but cheats We The People out of $5 millon each year

Posted on November 23, 2020 by markweiss86
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We’ve been ‘burted’

Posted on November 6, 2020 by markweiss86

I would not say Pat Burt “championed a business tax” in that during his sixteen years in leadership Palo Alto failed to enact a business tax and now had budget cuts, having let off the hook a trillion dollars worth … Continue reading →

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Personal to Plastic Alto voters in Palo Alto: you have 90 more minutes to get to the polls and vote REBECCA

Posted on November 3, 2020 by markweiss86

I met Rebecca Eisenberg walking our dogs at the new park at Peers Park and then have followed her campaign avidly since it started in June. I mention her here 23 times. I voted for she and three others, but … Continue reading →

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On the basis of ‘MET’

Posted on November 1, 2020 by markweiss86

I won’t know until I walk into the ballot box drop off place also known as the polls which for me might be in front of Palo alto city Hall although I’d prefer something with a human attendant but right … Continue reading →

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Vote Cari for Palo Alto

Posted on November 1, 2020 by markweiss86

Cari Templeton told me that she has heard the stories of Pat Burt being a bully but vowed that if tried such with her she would “kick his ass”. That earned my endorsement. Kick some ass, Cari Templeton. (She is … Continue reading →

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Cutting contest for candidates

Posted on October 29, 2020 by markweiss86

I am hereby inviting the 10 Palo Alto City Council candidates to respond to a prompt: on your cell phone, sing a bar, a line or a verse from the song “When You Were Mine”.I will post the results on … Continue reading →

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Greenwashing and the local election

Posted on October 29, 2020 by markweiss86

Sponsors of the forum on Green palo alto council members: 350 Silicon Valley Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet California Interfaith Power and Light Canopy Carbon-Free Palo Alto Citizens Climate Lobby (their account made this possible) Cool Block Palo Alto … Continue reading →

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