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I guess that there's something that I'm not understanding on this. If the "Off Topic" section were excluded from the "Discussions +" compilation then the only way to access Off Topic would be to deliberately click on it. Is that doable?
Yes, Jon was a favorite also. He is now retired- for a while he also posted an occasional on-line commentary, but he hasn't done that in quite a while now. IMHO the remaining Chron columnists are mostly second-rate politically-correct hacks. There's…
Nick Hoppe is the son of Art Hoppe, who was a San Francisco Chronicle columnist for many years. Nick is a Bay Area businessman who previously also wrote a weekly column for the Chron, but as the paper has steadily reduced it's print content he is no…
I'll give @wxman123 (weatherman?) a lot of credit for this- he's open to a reasonable discussion of an issue, without name-calling and derisive labels. That's pretty rare these days, unfortunately.
"rigorous honesty is required"
@BenWP- Are you sure about that? I've checked with our chief executive officer and he just laughed and said it was the first that he'd heard of anything like that.
@sma3- I have a good friend, a retired pulmonary doc who was Chief of Medicine at a San Francisco hospital in the Sutter Health Care empire. He could have written your comments on the state of our current medical care system.
My own primary care do…
Those logs are redwood, which I'm guessing may tolerate storage better than other softwoods such as fir or pine. I notice a water tanker there also... spraying water on felled logs is frequently used to keep them in decent condition. Perhaps the tru…
Speaking of airplane safety, it looks as if the same degree of rigorous evaluation is being used on hydroxychloroquine as was used on the 737 Max. Should be OK.
@Derf: I'm pretty much out of the market at the present time, as we are in our 80s and have very decent pension and SS income. In our building phase we did very well with American Funds, and Washington Mutual in particular. What little we have in th…
A "Hard Leftist" being anyone who doesn't see things according to the Mines_Engineer bible.
Re "Mines Engineer" definition- a few possibilities:
• A disgruntled unemployed coal-mine engineer from West Virginia
• A disgruntled unemployed coal-mine …
Trump campaign fails to show evidence of vote-by-mail fraud, filing reveals
Below are excerpts from a current article in The Guardian:
Donald Trump’s campaign failed to produce any evidence of vote-by-mail fraud in Pennsylvania after a federal jud…
An excellent discussion of a difficult situation. I firmly believe that the United States needs to set in place alternative sources for critical manufactures and raw materials.
Considering that any format change requires the least amount of time spent by the site administrators probably the cleanest approach would be an "Off-Topic-Political" section.
"I'm not in favor of ballot harvesting. I agree that is the weakest link in the chain. And it is a very weak link indeed. "
Totally agree. Just asking for trouble, from any side.
@WABAC: More bad news... as if we needed that- Chron just now reporting that another dry lightning storm due over Northern CA Sunday thru Tuesday. We are well and truly screwed.
I love the seemingly innocent but snidely derogatory "the Dr. Fauci’s of the world".
Would you be meaning those doctors who have devoted their lives to public safety and the exploration and investigation of epidemiological disease?
Why would anyon…
