The thing to understand about Alameda County’s reparations plan, released on Tuesday, is that the entire leftwing activist political structure of the East Bay is united in favor of it. Which means the only way to defeat it, which we should, is to put these freaky leftists back in their box.

Been a bit under the weather lately, which is why you haven’t heard from me. Had another cancer surgery on Monday and that does throw a monkey wrench into the works. I’ll spare you the details. At any rate I follow the news, so, as June has now slid into July, let me belatedly wish everyone Happy Pride Month! I remember my first Pride Parade, must have been 1980. Such a happy memory. Little did we, the LGBTQ community in San Francisco, suspect what a fearful nightmare lay just ahead.

That’s the headline on a recent Atlantic magazine article that argues police unions “condition officers to see themselves as above the law” and are therefore “dangerous” rogue organizations that let their members “get away with murder.”

It would be very easy to solve the encampment problem in Oakland: simply arrest anyone who attempts to illegally squat, and keep re-arresting them until they realize Oakland is no longer going to permit them to break the law.

I want to make it clear from the start that I have not yet seen the new documentary film, “Wood Street,” premiering July 14 at the New Parkway Theater. All I know of it is what Oaklandside reported yesterday. But here’s what I do know: it’s a sympathetic look at the Wood Street housing slum, the city’s worst, which Oakland began cleaning up—against the wishes of its 300 inhabitants—last year.