Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

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

Tana, Franks and McCain confirmed for Palo Alto jazz panel

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling and they kissed each other for a long, long timeK.V. Three jazz musicians with local ties headline a panel discussion for the … Continue reading →

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Jack Del Rio and Lisa M. Snyder

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

Vic Tafur page 1 the Chron has a puff piece on former Hayward High great Jack Del Rio, 51, the new Raiders head coach. I distinctly recall asking my former The Dartmouth colleague Lisa M. Sndyer, a Hayward ’83 about … Continue reading →

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‘Close Gitmo’

Posted on January 21, 2015 by markweiss86
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Palo Alto Forward

Posted on January 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I said, promptly deleted by Censor In Charged at Palo Alto Weekly: Palo Alto Forward members are the policy equivalent to Ring Girls at a boxing match: they look good, their message is oversimplified, they take their orders from somebody … Continue reading →

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Je suis Jim Yardley

Posted on January 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I doubt we ran Jim Yardley’s first byline above the fold page one of the Oracle, at Henry M. Gunn High of Palo Alto — something about middle class students using public transportation to school, spring 1981 — but his … Continue reading →

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Daphne Hannig, October 28, 2014, 5:13 p.m.

Posted on January 16, 2015 by markweiss86

(Daphne Hannig worked on my campaign, for Palo Alto City Council. I met she and Karen Guttieri her mother while walking a precinct in their south Palo Alto, Eichlerized neighborhood. Daphne and I met a second time a few days … Continue reading →

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Tribute to Herb

Posted on January 14, 2015 by markweiss86

On Tuesday, November 12, 2012 — 11/12/13 if you are counting — I snuck out of the house and motored over to Paly High to check out Herb Wong’s Adult School class on Woody Herman. Although I contemplated flashing my … Continue reading →

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Jason Garrett high road

Posted on January 13, 2015 by markweiss86

When Jason Garrett head coach of the Dallas Cowboys football team, was interviewed post-game about the loss to the Packers he said something like “we had our opportunities to prevail but did not, and the officiating was not the reason … Continue reading →

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It’s a girl, or triplets

Posted on January 13, 2015 by markweiss86

1. Echo Brown: Not sure why I was being so PC (politically correct) or dorky to write my previous piece as if I was leaving room for this woman to be transgender, but upon further review, unlike Dez Bryant — … Continue reading →

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E.B. White’s pig’s long tail tale (meta Plastic Alto)

Posted on January 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Eighty-eight posts received exactly one hit, the long tail. Nineteen posts got two hits, for instance “In another mental universe, LAMI lives” about the Beat poet Alden Van Buskirk, I feted back in 2011. Nine had three readers. Six had … Continue reading →

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