Carroll Fife has this quote from Huey Newton on her Twitter page:

I know I have critics out there, although I shouldn’t, because I’m right and they’re wrong. They bash me for all sorts of stupid things, but their most common complaint is that all I ever do is criticize stuff without coming up with solutions.

I’m tempted to use intemperate language against Carroll Fife and Rowena Brown in today’s post, but since I’m informed that this blog is read by many small children, I will moderate my words. So let me just say I have two words for Fife and Brown, and they ain’t “Merry Christmas.”

The most notable thing about Barbara Lee’s mayoralty, after six months in office, is how un-notable she’s been. We hardly see her on television, or hear her on the radio, and even when she’s on social media, she’s barely a squeak. When Her Honor does deign to make a few public remarks, they’re so bland, so puerile in bureaucratese pablum, that she might have said nothing at all.

When you give something for free to a living creature, the creature can come to expect more of the same. This is why park rangers urge people in, say, the Tahoe area or Yosemite not to feed bears. If the animals become dependent on humans to give them food, they may lose the ability to hunt, and make human-bear interactions worse than ever.