Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

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

Bjong Wolf Yeigh and the Wheelock Succession

Posted on April 3, 2012 by markweiss86

I ran into Dr. Andrew Gutow my Dartmouth classmate, the hand surgeon, at my Dad’s club Saturday and he planted an idea in me that has been growing like a wand of cotton candy, in my head. He said that … Continue reading →

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Thrilling Kansas victory bodes well for teen music and art initiative

Posted on March 18, 2012 by markweiss86

With Kansas trailing Purdue early in the second half, and the dog curiously obsessed with the taste of her own front paws, our neighbor Marjorie Ford, wearing a furry cap she bought recently in Budapest came by to ask us … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Warren: A Flinty Kind of Woman

Posted on March 13, 2012 by markweiss86

Or: E Minor Threat: Massachusetts, Iowa, Missouri, Cali — let’s take the whole country back, ladies! Hi. My name is Elizabeth Warren. You don’t know about me without you have read Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mr. Mark Twain. No … Continue reading →

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I got high on music the gateway drug

Posted on March 13, 2012 by markweiss86

I keep bouncing back and forth between my day job covering music and my waking nightmare trying to prevent Palo Alto from being overrun by this group of middle aged multimillionaires competing with each other to out do each other … Continue reading →

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Hold the date for Reading Rainbow May 12

Posted on March 8, 2012 by markweiss86

Hold the date, for Reading Rainbow in the Park. I just came back from a meeting for the second Reading Rainbow in the Park, a book fair for kids and K-12, scheduled Saturday, May 12, 2012, 10 to 3 p.m. … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto Weekly censorship of Arrillaga proposal debate

Posted on March 7, 2012 by markweiss86

Posted by been there, a resident of Menlo Park, 2 hours ago (on Palo Alto Weekly comments to G. Sheyner’s coverage of the Arrillaga Proposal, ie March 5, 2012, approximately 9 a.m.) How shocking that PA online would remove a … Continue reading →

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Democracy the machine that goes ping

Posted on February 26, 2012 by markweiss86

I read acount in a local paper that there is an impasse declared by we the taxpayers in our negotiation with our public safety union. The union lawyer calls this bad faith. I agree. I am disappointed with city manager Jim … Continue reading →

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Congrats to Wrestling Champion Cadence Lee, 15, daughter of my Gunn classmate Emmie Fa

Posted on February 20, 2012 by markweiss86

(Written in 2012, updated January, 2014) I caught a story about a Gunn wrestler tonight on a local highlight show then realized the student athlete is the daughter of my classmate Emmie Fa. The student is Cadence Lee who helped … Continue reading →

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William B. Gould IV to throw out first pitch Friday at Stanford-Vandy baseball game

Posted on February 16, 2012 by markweiss86

take me out to the ballgame in a red camero z-24 with BOSOX98 plates and get there in time for the ceremonial first pitch, bring a cap not a wig Continue reading →

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Absurd tension for IM

Posted on February 9, 2012 by markweiss86

  edit to add, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012: I went in to Safeway to try to buy the Jeremy Lin Sports Illustrated but instead walked out with The New Yorker because it had a blurb about Doomtree in New York … Continue reading →

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