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- ["Miss Marple: Murder at the Vicarage" at the Oregon Cabaret Theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/miss-marple-vicarage/) - The Oregon Cabaret Theater delivers a sharp, crisp, and welcomingly light murder mystery. This is not an earth shaking work of art. But it is a completely good show and for what it aims for it earns its 5 stars.
- ["Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/midsummernightsdream2026/) - I cannot imagine a better presented MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM! It's so joyous and full of talent. The actors, set, and performance talent earn 5 stars, but for me the play itself is 3 stars. So, four stars overall!
- ["A Raisin in the Sun" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-raisin-in-the-sun-osf/) - The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has revitalized a classy classic play and uses it to deliver a story about a real family and a message about prejudice which, unfortunately, is still valid. A five-star show.
- ["You're Cordially Invited to the End of the World"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/youre-cordially-invited/) - "You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World" is a a difficult, intense, intricate show delivered with flawless performances and tech. 5-stars.
- ["Come From Away" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/come-from-away-osf/) - "Come From Away" at Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a deep, entertaining exploration of how people can simply be people in times of extraordinary stress. This production showcases real people being intensely human. Superb. Five stars (plus) out of five.
- ["Home?" at the San Francisco Playhouse](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/home-play/) - Home? is a deep, engrossing, and sometimes even fun way to contemplate Palestine. It's much better path to understanding than simply seething about the horrors of October 7th, Gaza, or endemic apartheid.
- ["Ripcord" at the Rogue Theater Company](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ripcord/) - Ripcord is a very funny, fun play, and it grabs because it also has a message. Ripcord jumps out as a five-star production!
- ["The Importance of Being Earnest" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/importance-of-being-earnest-at-the-oregon-shakespeare-festival-2/) - This EARNEST is an old chestnut well roasted with some spice added to its normal vanilla flavoring. A 5-star performance.
- ["Jitney" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/jitney-at-the-oregon-shakespeare-festival-2/) - Powerfully written and performed, Jitney at Oregon Shakespeare Festival definitely is a -- maybe THE -- highlight of the theater season.
- ["Fat Ham" at the San Franciso Playhouse](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/fat-ham-at-sf-playhouse/) - There is enough tragic revenge in today’s world. I recommend that folks see SF Playhouse's fun, fearless FAT HAM and adopt the supportive community outlook on life.
- ["Fat Ham" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/fat-ham-at-the-oregon-shakespeare-festival/) - The staging, pacing and acting are flawless throughout Oregon Shakespeare Festival's FAT HAM. There are no drags on this performance which rates 5 stars.
- ["Doubt" at the Rogue Theater Company](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/doubt_rtc/) - Strong, flawless acting delivers an extraordinary, complicatedly written, compelling, impossble to answer question about the goodness of the play's characters. The only thing you realize for certain is that you will never know for sure who the good person/people is/are! 5 Stars out of 5!
- ["Behfarmaheen (If You Please)" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/behfarmaheen/) - Behfarmaheen is must-see, touching, detailed show featuring a man whose work I’ve long enjoyed. He must have incredible guts to put so any sides of him on stage for us.
- ["Coriolanus" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/coriolanus-2024/) - "Coriolanus" fails at presenting an intersting story, showing real characters, or offering any connection with the audience. 1 Star out of 5.
- [Coriolanus](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/coriolanus/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Coriolanus by William Shakespeare It's depressing. This centuries' old play about events a millennium earlier than that still speaks too accurately about the crowd/personality/political dynamics of the campaigns featured today on CNN and Fox. There is no one-for-one tracking between Shakespeare's characters and McCain, Romney, and the rest. But, at
- ["Much Ado About Nothing" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/much-ado/) - "Much Ado About Nothing" is another OSF production that is possibly the best version of the play you'll ever see. Damn! 5 Stars out of 5!
- ["Virgins to Villains" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/virgins-to-villians/) - "Virgins to Villians" offers a incredibly well crafted 90 minutes of meaningful and fun entertainment.. 5 Stars out of 5!
- ["Jane Eyre" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/jane-eyre/) - I would have had to stay past intermission to write a real review of "Jane Eyre" But I'll say I believe it's 2 Stars out of 5.
- ["Stones in His Pockets" at the Rogue Theater Company](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/stones-in-his-pockets/) - "Stones in His Pockets" is an character tour de force at Rogue Theater Company has a story worthy of the amazing acting. 5 Stars out of 5!
- ["Lizard Boy" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/lizard-boy/) - "Lizard Boy" is a rock muscial coming of age story that is so off-the-wall that it not threatening to teenagers, young adults, or old adults. It’s captivating. 5 Stars out of 5!
- ["Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/alchemy-of-gender/) - "Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender" blends personal details with gender truths in a remarkable event. The performance rates five stars.
- ["Smote This" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/smote-this/) - This one-person show by OSF veteran Rodney Gardiner is intense, personal, real, and not to be missed (and like all of the one-person shows the run is too short, so go now).
- ["Macbeth" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/macbeth-2024/) - This production has characters, nuance, coherence, and still the amazing language and events. It is not a good Macbeth, it is a spectacular Macbeth.
- ["Born with Teeth" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/born-with-teeth/) - I am happy to have seen this theater-goers mental masturbation show which was well done but fails the “so what” test.
- ["My Home on the Moon" at San Francisco Playhouse](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-home-on-the-moon/) - "My Home on the Moon" makes its powerful, attention-grabbing world premiere at San Francisco Playhouse. On stage through February 24, 2024, it earns 4.5 stars!
- ["A Guide for the Homesick" at Theatre Rhinoceros](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/guide-for-the-homesick/) - The overall quality of the play, the performances, and the production earns A Guide to the Homesick 5 stars. Go see it, now through March 19th.
- [Mexican Cruise Photos](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/mexican-cruise-photos/) - Our January 2023 10-day cruise to Mexico had some spectacular visual moments. Here are links to the better views.
- [Cruising on the Royal Princess](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cruising-on-the-royal-princess/) - We were extremely happy to get back on a cruise ship after three years and several false starts. Here are some notes on what we'd do to make the experience better, more up to the standards of the pre-pandemic rides.
- [Paris, March 14, 2006 – September 20, 2022](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/paris/) - Honoring Paris who lived from March 14, 2006 to September 20, 2022. Paris adopted the Ozdachs pack completely and shared her special skills with love, independence, dignity, and authority.
- [Recall Chesa Boudin -- Yes on H](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/recall-chesa-boudin/) - Based on my personal experience of his failure to stop a senseless prosecution of a PTSD victim and my observations of people released by Chesa causing death and damage, I am voting YES on H.
- ["Once on This Island" at OSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/once-on-this-island-at-osf/) - It was good to be back in the Bowmer Theater to for a fun evening that is full of energy, good singing, lively movement, and entertaining and meaningful music. Ozdachs' rating is 4 stars out of 5.
- ["unseen" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/unseen/) - unseen has too many themes, too many possibilities, and too many symbols to be either fun or worthwhile. It's a well-meaning piece with two fine actors, and you will discuss your ideas about how to improve it. But, overall, it's only 2 stars out of 5.
- [SeQueL, November 21, 2008 – November 23, 2021](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sequel-november-21-2008-november-23-2021/) - Honoring SeQueL who lived from November 21, 2008 to November 23, 2021. SeQueL’s spirit has guided the Ozdachs for twelve years and her memory will continue to empower and comfort us.
- [Taking Care of the Poor, San Francisco Style, 2021](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/taking-care-of-the-poor-san-francisco-style-2021/) - There is something humanly disturbing and wrong about how we have decided to NOT handle poor homeless people in need. Here's what I saw on Castro Street last week.
- [Mother Nature and the Side Fence](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/mother-nature-and-the-side-fence/) - Just a fun observation. Back in March, 2018 we noticed a small volunteer growing in a small crack in the concrete on our side fence. The little guy is looking pretty healthy three years later!
- [Deaths Beyond Counting](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/deaths-beyond-counting/) - A house on Waller Street posted the daily count of Americans who died from COVID. Until today. When it became too much.
- [1828 Days Later](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/1828-days-later/) - Yesterday I completed my fifth year of doing at least 30 continuous minutes of exercise a day. That means today's five-mile outdoor walk was my 1828th day of exercise in a row.
- [Signs of The END](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/signs-of-the-end/) - Sometime in March I decided to gather photos of the signs that marked the END of streets. Today I uploaded my 450th END to the gallery "Signs of the End" gallery.
- [A Meaningful "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-meaningful-ma-raineys-black-bottom/) - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” hits Netflix tomorrow, December 18. I was lucky enough to see it last Friday, and I would like to recommend it! Highly! Forgive me if I assume that you know that the original play was written by August Wilson and that you know his importance in American Theater. And, you probably
- [A Happy Oddity of Pacheco Street](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-happy-oddity-of-pacheco-street/) - Today I confirmed another city planning/street labeling impossibility: there is apparently a negative block of Pacheco.
- [Purple Air, Purple Air](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/purple-air-purple-air/) - We have joined the ranks of the Air Quality Geeks. Check out our real-time reading!
- [My Special Reason for Liking Kamela Harris](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-special-reason-for-liking-kamela-harris/) - Kamela Harris will be an excellent Vice President, and probably President. I have a small, but special reason for supporting her.
- [How to Save Black Lives](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/how-to-save-black-lives/) - We need training and programs to integrate police into the communities they serve. We need to show them how to feel less frightened and more skilled in ways of controlling situations involving black men they don't know.
- [Meditations on The Thin Blue Line](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/thin-blue-line/) - It's been 40 years since my dispatching days at Long Beach Police. Have things changed? Basically, we indoctrinate cops in the importance of the Thin Blue Line.
- ["A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-midsummer-nights-dream-2020/) - A well-acted fun romp but not a distinctive fun romp. Rating 3 out of 5.
- ["Peter and the Starcatcher"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/peter-and-the-starcatcher/) - A fun, family-friendly, intelligence-friendly romp of fast-paced action and faster-paced banter. Once you sync speeds you can enjoy a thoroughly enjoyable ride.
- ["Copper Children"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/copper-children/) - A disappointing moralistic plod that fails to create drama or feelings from a truly dramatic situation. Worth missing unless it's rewritten. 2 stars out of 5
- ["Bring Down the House, Part II"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/bring-down-the-house-part-ii/) - A well curated, clear, production of classic Shakespeare performed with a completely talented cast. Rating: 4 1/2 stars out of 5.
- [I'm Undecided](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/primary2020/) - The California primary for President is just a week away, and I haven't decided who I am voting for. I am happy about that!
- ["Cambodian Rock Band" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cambodian-rock-band/) - In Cambodian Rock Band the audience is drawn into the lives of each character: the young, the old, the well meaning, and the immorally horrible. All are honored.
- ["Between Two Knees"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/between-two-knees/) - Between Two Knees is in the bottom 2 or 3 shows we've ever seen at OSF. It is simply avoidable dreck.
- ["Significant Other"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/significant-other/) - I simply cannot recommend spending money on a gay-bashing piece of theater, no matter how wittily it is written and delivered. Play rates 1 out of 5
- ["Sister Act" at Theatre Rhinoceros](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sister-act-theatre-rhinoceros/) - Theater Rhinoceros' production of Sister Act brings quality, energy, and queer freshness to the 1990's musical made famous by Whoopi Goldberg. Go see it!
- ["Mother Road" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/mother-road-oregon-shakespeare-festival/) - The importance of the story, the crafts, and the acting are all wonderful. But, the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. Still 4 out of 5 stars.
- [Day 189: Walkies!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-189-walkies/) - Auroara hung back a little at first, but after just one house, she was surveying the street and deciding that the front door world at least smelled interesting.
- ["Hairspray" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/hairspray-at-the-oregon-shakespeare-festival/) - Prepare to smile, laugh, feel good, applaud, and appreciate an uplifting story sung and danced into your heart by a strong, beautiful, coordinated cast. 5 stars
- ["As You Like It" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/as-you-like-it-at-the-oregon-shakespeare-festival/) - In "As You Like It" the actors give us some quality moments. Unfortunately, there isn't a vision for the production that's compelling.
- [Day 182 - The Sixth Month Birthday](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-182-the-sixth-month-birthday/) - Auroara turned six months today. We celebrated her with love in the backyard and took her on her first outside walk!
- ["The Underpants Godot"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-underpants-godot/) - The Underpants Godot pop-up production is a terrifically enjoyable surprise. It's a very witty and wise play delivered with style and spot-on acting.
- [Day 134 - The Final Puppy Shots!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-134-the-final-puppy-shots/) - Today we took Auroara to Dr. Chase for her final series of puppy shots: her final parvo booster, her last canine influenza booster, and kennel cough nose spray.
- [Day 127 - Auroara Goes Down](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-127-auroara-goes-down/) - Auroara went down all five steps to the backyard by herself for the first time today!
- [Day 121 - Playing Around](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-121-playing-around/) - AuRoara has been expert going up the stairs for a while. She still doesn't go DOWN. She'll take the first step down to the landing, but then stops.
- [Day 120 -- First Bath](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-120-first-bath/) - AuRoara gets her first bath.
- [Day 94 -- Christmas is Over. No Need to Hide Our Naughtiness!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-94-christmas-is-over-no-need-to-hide-naughtiness/) - AuRoara (note the updated spelling) says that now that Christmas is over, there is no need to feign angelic behavior.
- [Day 93 -- Merry Christmas, Auroara! "Auroara"??](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-93-merry-christmas-auroara-auroara/) - The development in the puppy world today was reading her signature on the Christmas cards. Apparently, she is spelling her name "Auroara".
- [A New Year's Resolution, 3 Years Later](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-new-years-resolution-3-years-later/) - Regular exercise was a 2016 New Year's resolution. Yesterday I completed 3 years of doing something physical for 30 minutes. That's 1096 days in a row.
- [Day 92 -- Christmas Eve](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-92-christmas-eve/) - The girls continue to be uncomfortable with the disruption of additional beings in the house. Even Aurora seems to need recharging more often...
- [Day 91 - Still in an Uproar](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-91-still-in-an-uproar/) - Well, maybe not an uproar, but the Force is definitely disturbed by the non-pack canine in the house... to say nothing of dealing with his owner!
- [Day 90 -- A Day of Play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-90-a-day-of-incessant-activity/) - Spurred on by Aurora's first non-pack canine visitor, 'twas the Saturday before Christmas and all through the house... there was activity!
- [Day 89 -- Another Day, Another Shot](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-89-another-day-another-shot/) - Today was the third puppy shot day for Aurora, the second time she received the lepto vaccine which her aunt is allergic to.
- [Day 88 - More Quality Outdoor Time!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-88-more-quality-outdoor-time/) - Some quality pictures of Aurora spending quality time outside.
- [Day 87 -- Caught Outside](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-87-caught-outside/) - There was just time today to track the girls down in the way back and to snap them at play a couple times.
- [Day 86 -- Let's Go Outside!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-86-lets-go-outside/) - Today shows Aurora's focus on the [dead] plant life in the back yard!
- [Day 85 -- Monday Visitor Tries to Get Her to Go Down!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-85-monday-visitor-tries-to-get-her-to-go-down/) - The pack had another visitor today. This visitor was confident that with a little encouragement Aurora would decide that she could go down the stairs! Naw!
- [Day 84 -- Sunday Visitors](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-84-sunday-visitors/) - Sunday is the traditional day for visitors. Aurora likes tradition and was visited by Charles and John today.
- [Day 83 - Kitchen Confidential, Take 2](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-83-kitchen-confidential-take-2/) - Aurora practices her adorableness at the back door while the entire pack proves they are den animals in another kitchen confidential photo.
- [Day 81 -- Comfort and Joy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-81-comfort-and-joy/) - The girls were inspiring comfortable when the rest of our world was spinning up in a Christmas frenzy!
- [Day 82 -- The Camera Comes Out at Night](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-82-the-camera-comes-out-at-night/) - Today was filled with more business for the humans, and the camera didn't start recording Aurora's adventures until the 7:45 play session and dinner.
- [Day 80 -- She only LOOKS Cherubic](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-80-she-only-looks-cherubic/) - Five of us are exhausted and our patience is worn thin. Apparently Aurora slept very, very well last night. During the day today she's been in non-stop motion.
- [Day 79 -- The Basics of Growing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-79-the-basics-of-growing/) - I decoded when Aurora takes the stairs quickly, and she brought back lunch.
- [Day 78 -- Back to Work Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-78-back-to-work-day/) - Geoffrey and I are back to work today. There was plenty of puppy energy to spur us on. She is up to 5 pounds, 12 ounces, which earns her respect in the play!
- [Day 77 -- A Family Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-77-a-family-day/) - Today was mostly constant in/out/up/down. For Aurora, of course, the motivation for all movement was PLAY!
- [Day 76 -- Terrible Twos and Showing Off](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-76-terrible-twos-and-showing-off/) - The terrible twos have struck Aurora. But, after dealing with the non compliance and temper tantrums, the day turned pleasant with visits and compliments.
- [Day 75 - Variable Speed](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-75-variable-speed/) - Aurora is enjoying being able to cut short the sessions outside where she is told to do her doggy things.
- [Day 74 - Morning Accomplishments](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-74-morning-accomplishments/) - This morning Aurora made it all the way up the stairs into the house on her own. An accomplishment!
- [Day 73 -- Four Steps at a Time](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-73-four-steps-at-a-time/) - Aurora made it up four steps from the backyard to the landing tonight!
- [Day 72 -- Late Play is Better than No Play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-72-late-play-is-better-than-no-play/) - Aurora must chew everything. She calls it "play"
- [Day 71 -- Turning Off the Irrigation](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-71-turning-off-the-irrigation/) - Today Aurora reminded us of another home feature we used to have but which proved incompatible with puppies: a sprinkler system.
- [Day 70 -- Continuing Traditional Gardening](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-70-continuing-traditional-gardening/) - Aurora has continued the puppy tradition of wallowing, digging, and generally enjoying the now-falling-apart planters.
- [Day 69 -- Five Pounds of Adorableness](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-69-five-pounds-of-adorableness/) - Today she weighed in at an even 5 pounds!
- [Day 68 -- Breaking Down Barriers](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-68-breaking-down-barriers/) - Our little girl acquired new skills today. The clearest photo of the day, though, doesn't show Aurora's new skills.
- [Day 67 -- Sharing is Caring!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-67-sharing-is-caring/) - The battle was fierce! Zenith and Aurora marched each other around the kitchen floor with mutual death grips on the lime-green fuzz of the "shared" tennis ball.
- [Day 66 -- Aurora on Snake Patrol](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-66-aurora-on-snake-patrol/) - We have been able to convince Aurora that Mr. Snake is deserving of her teeth at least as much as our fingers, canine ears, and the baseboard are.
- [Day 65 -- Another Day with a Babysitter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-65-another-day-with-a-babysitter/) - Aurora and the pack were taken care of midday by their friend Tony as I continued to sit in a jury pool at the Hall of Justice from 9 - 4:30.
- [Day 64 -- Expanding Her Territory](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-64-expanding-her-territory/) - This evening, Aurora took the path between the bushes and went out to the Outback!
- [Day 63 -- A Day of  Activity](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-63-a-day-of-activity/) - Aurora played with the pack and with the humans. Today's pictures are from the afternoon visit of out-of-town guests.
- [Day 62 -- Home Life](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-62-home-life/) - After yesterday's visits and excitement, this Saturday was a low-key, at-home affair.
- [Day 61 -- Maintaining Traditions and Meeting MORE People](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-61-maintaining-traditions/) - Aurora's newest discovery is how to walk up the side of the decomposing planter box and join generations of dachshunds in staring at the world from its heights.
- [Day 49 -- Developing a Personality and Fitting In](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-49-developing-a-personality-and-fitting-in/) - At MUNI finishes up her sixth week among us, she is figuring out who she is and how she belongs in the pack.
- [Day 60 -- Early Childhood Training](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-60-early-childhood-training/) - There are a few things puppies have to learn at an early age. Here's the first things we're teaching Aurora.
- [Day 59 -- Kitchen Confidential](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-59-kitchen-confidential/) - Aurora poses around the kitchen today
- [Day 58 -- Making the Visitors Happy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-58-making-the-visitors-happy/) - Aurora had two special visitors this afternoon, Kurish dog-loving men. The visuals aren't bad!
- [Day 57 -- Introducing Aurora](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-57-introducing-aurora/) - Eight-week old MUNI's permanent home is going to be with the Ozdachs pack! So, we get to give her a "call" name (Aurora) and a registered name.
- [Day 56 -- The Visitations](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-56-the-visitations/) - MUNI is visited by a five church friends on a Sunday afternoon. And they say Unitarian Universalists do not proselytize!
- [Day 55 -- Day of the Snake](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-55-day-of-the-snake/) - MUNI, in her role as deputy play machine, is fearless in competing for today's favorite toy, the snake.
- [Day 51 -- Gone in 1/60th of a Second](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-51-gone-in-1-60th-of-a-second/) - MUNI is faster that a speeding flash camera!
- [Day 54 -- Taking on the Adults](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-54-taking-on-the-adults/) - MUNI is playing hard three or four times a day. Her sessions are pretty aggressive, fearlessly playing with any adult, canine or human.
- [Day 52 -- Manifest Destiny](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-52-manifest-destiny/) - Today MUNI showed fearlessness in following the adults out of the kitchen and romping into the back hallway.
- [Day 50 -- Establishing Favorites](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-50-establishing-favorites/) - Seven-week-old MUNI has been inundated with play toys and unleashed to roam the kitchen. She likes the new options but is attached to her initial dietary likes
- [Day 48 -- We're Back](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-48-were-back/) - We returned from our quick Seattle trip late afternoon. We played and then cuddled extra close the TV room.
- [Day 45 -- Play and Seeing the Sun](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-45-play-and-seeing-the-sun/) - MUNI is establishing a play routine, and today we spent more time -- almost an uncomfortable amount of time! -- outside.
- [Day 44 -- Elect Me Your Playtoy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-44-elect-me-your-playtoy/) - Today MUNI decided that she could come out of the whelping box to play. In fact, we kicked up the play machine activity a good notch or two today!
- [Day 43 -- We've Been Shot!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-43-weve-been-shot/) - MUNI's six-week birthday celebration was punctuated by a visit from our vet!
- [Day 42 -- The Play Continues](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-42-the-play-continues/) - We are struggling to teach Apex and the other adults that toys that are in the whelping box can be played with, but NOT removed from the whelping box.
- [Day 41 -- MUNI Decides to Play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-41-muni-decides-to-play/) - MUNI woke up in the mood to play. She's been playful and finger gnawing at times, but never completely in play mode. Until today!
- [Day 40 -- It's a Blur](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-40-its-a-blur/) - MUNI pretty much focused on keeping her quiet growing going.
- [Day 38 -- Peering Outside the Box](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-38-peering-outside-the-box/) - MUNI is starting to think about what might be outside the box!
- [Day 38 -- An Outdoor Adventure](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-38-an-outdoor-adventure/) - Halloween is beautiful and sunny. I set up the tripod to come up with several shots where I looked good reflected in MUNI's beauty.
- [Day 37 -- Three Pounds of Cuteness](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-37-three-pounds-of-cuteness/) - At 8:20 am MUNI tipped the scales at 3 pounds even. Good BIG girl! She continues to play and to be besieged by socializing visitors.
- [Day 36 -- Let the Play Continue!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-36-let-the-play-continue/) - It's Monday and the start of MUNI's fifth week! She has a full day, and all of girls want to play with the puppy-sized tennis ball.
- [Day 35 -- MUNI Learns to Play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-35-muni-learns-to-play/) - MUNI's first play was growling at Zenith and trying to chew her mom's ears. Cute!
- [Day 34 -- A Saturday at Home with the Pack](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-34-a-saturday-at-home-with-the-pack/) - It was kind of a stay-at-home day for the girls... Geoffrey and I went out mid-day 4 1/2 hours --the longest that MUNI has ever gone without human supervision.
- [Day 33 -- Widening Our Social Circle](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-33-widening-our-social-circle/) - Today our first outside-the-pack visitors visited. A friend from church was MUNI's first official guest, and Geoffrey's co-worker Charles came by later.
- [Day 32 -- Expanding Horizons](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-32-expanding-horizons/) - MUNI finds herself in the middle of the pack and on the bricks... a lot for a little puppy to take in! The story in words and several photos.
- [Day 31 -- Moving Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-31-moving-day/) - We thought we might move the whelping box into the kitchen over the weekend. That would make MUNI more integrated into our lives and give her an idea of what humans do. We think that MUNI can handle the additional draft of the kitchen, especially since the heater can follow her there. But, we have
- [Day 30 -- Staying Ahead of Mom](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-30-staying-ahead-of-mom/) - MUNI first sampled solid food on Day 28, two days ahead of Zenith's first plunge into a food bowl but MUNI still isn't enthusiastic about solid food.
- [Day 29 -- Feeling Secure](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-29-feeling-secure/) - MUNI is getting used to being manhandled, and seems to take it in stride. The start of her fifth week was happily boring.
- [Day 28 -- A Taste of Food and Friends](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-28-a-taste-of-food-and-friends/) - MUNI had her first food and first visitor! Read the details and see some pictures.
- [The 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival Season Rankings](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-2018-oregon-shakespeare-festival-season-rankings/) - There's a three-Way Tie for Best Show of 2018, in alphabetical order: "Destiny of Desire", "Oklahoma", and "Snow in Midsummer".
- [Love's Labor's Lost at Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/loves-labors-lost-at-oregon-shakespeare-festival/) - "Love's Labor's Lost" was a fun evening. Lots of music. Accessible. Made sense. And, it's completely forgettable as a theater piece.
- [Day 26 -- There's a World Out There!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-26-theres-a-world-out-there/) - MUNI definitely started noticing the world today!
- [Day 27 -- MUNI Meets Her Grandmother and Aunt!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-27-muni-meets-her-grandmother-and-aunt/) - Today was another milestone day! MUNI met her blood relatives, Aunt Apex and Grandmother SeQueL, today. Everyone got along!
- [Day 25 -- A Day of Growing and Being Watched](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-25-a-day-of-growing-and-being-watched/) - No significant news today! MUNI had a 24-hour 1.5 oz gain in weight, to 35.3 oz., a continuation of the healthy trend.
- [Day 24 -- First Checkup and First Nail Trimming](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-24-first-checkup-and-first-nail-trimming/) - The main scheduled event of the day was well baby-checkup with our SF vet, Dr. Jill Chase. MUNI passed her exam with flying colors.
- [Day 23 -- Steady as She Goes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-23-steady-as-she-goes/) - Today was a happily unremarkable day of growth.
- [Day 22 -- Three Weeks Old and A Two-Pound Whopper!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-22-three-weeks-old-and-a-two-pound-whopper/) - MUNI celebrated her 3-week birthday by tipping the scales at a full two pounds. Go Girl!
- [Day 21 -- Inflating the Puppy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-21-inflating-the-puppy/) - No real news on the growth front: steady as she goes.
- [Day 20 -- Personality Happens](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-20-personality-happens/) - MUNI is showing her eyes more... . She doesn't have much reaction to any human she sees. The biggest reaction are still cuddling motions and sucking sounds.
- [Day 19 - The Aperture Got Us](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-19-the-aperture-got-us/) - Today's update is more about the limits of photography than it's about raising a puppy. MUNI, fortunately, doesn't care.
- [Day 18 -- I am the Walrus!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-18-i-am-the-walrus/) - MUNI continues to grow at a happy pace. This morning at 8:05 she was up to 27.4 oz.
- [Day 17 -- Playing Hide and Seek](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-17-playing-hide-and-seek/) - We've seen MUNI's eyes, but she's not being rigorous about keep them open. Today she jumped up 1.6 oz to 24.2 oz.
- [Day 16 -- The Eyes Have It!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-16-the-eyes-have-it/) - We can look MUNI in the eyes! Mother and daughter continue to nurse, nurture, and grow!
- [Day 15 -- Can I See Yet?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-15-can-i-see-yet/) - Another day of quiet growth... up to 21.2 oz at 8:15 am. Then, at 9:30 pm, Geoffrey looked into MUNI's eyes for the first time.
- [Day 14 -- MUNI Feels Safe in a Dad's Arms](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-14-muni-in-dads-arms/) - MUNI continues to eat, grow, and move more often and further away from her mother in the whelping box . All good!
- [Day 13 -- When "Sleep" is an Active Verb](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-13-when-sleep-is-an-active-verb/) - MUNI is preoccupied with growing, and Zenith looks comfortable providing the nourishment!
- [Let Us Model Honorable Disagreement](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/susan-collins/) - I listened to Senator Susan Collins’ speech today. She is measured, honest, and worthy of respectful treatment.
- [Day 12 -- MUNI Naps and Zenith Has Her Stitches Removed](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-12-muni-naps-and-zenith-has-her-stitches-removed/) - MUNI models chunky good health in the whelping box and Dr. Chase Removes Zenith's Stitches.
- [Day 11 -- Picture Perfect](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-11-picture-perfect/) - Today has been one of the days I expected. Not much going on on the puppy front except growing! Here are a couple photos from today.
- [Day 10 -- Peaceful Growth](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-10-peaceful-growth/) - We are all happy with a few days of quiet normality! MUNI skipped the 14 oz level and showed up in the scale at 15.38 oz this morning!
- [Day 9 -- Weighing In](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-9-weighing-in/) - MUNI is continuing to grow at a healthy rate. Yay! This morning at 8:10 MUNI was 13.89 oz, up from 12.52 yesterday at 7:25.
- [Day 3 -- Eat! Please!!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-3-eat-please/) - The Midday Report today has to focus on getting nourishment to the boy. MUNI, the girl, is gaining weight. The boy is losing weight and not staying latched on.
- [Trying to Get Comfortable - Day 2 at 1:45 pm](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/trying-to-get-comfortable-day-2-at-145-pm/) - A day for vigilance,... or how to act like nervous grandparents. The midday update on puppies.
- [Day 3 -- Intervention](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-3-intervention/) - We started bottle feeding Metro this afternoon a little after 3 pm. The good news is he started sucking the bottle and he ate/drank about an ounce of formula
- [Day 4 -- Struggling to Thrive](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-4-struggling-to-thrive/) - Metro is in the incubator at the emergency room where we brought him at 3:30 am. At about 8 am the ER doctor called and said that Metro is holding his own.
- [Day 6 -- Metro Died](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-6-metro-died/) - We received a call from the hospital about 11 last night, telling us that Metro had died. We feel the loss. Goodbye, Metro. We remember you with love.
- [Day 7 -- [Over] Protective Parents Focusing on MUNI](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-7-over-protective-parents-focusing-on-muni/) - MUNI weighed in at 11.4 oz this morning, almost a full ounce more than yesterday. She is sleeping, eating, and generally seems okay.
- [Day 8 -- MUNI is Measuring Up](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-8-muni-is-measuring-up/) - I'm knocking on wood... We don't have a life-threatening crisis in the pack at the moment. Today featured happy puppy growth... a welcome change.
- [Day 6 -- An Emergency Metro Update](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-6-an-emergency-metro-update/) - Metro Has Aspirated Milk at the Hospital. Whey checked at 4 after feeding him, they saw milk coming from his nose and mouth. There is fluid in his lungs.
- ["Manahatta" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/manahatta-at-the-oregon-shakespeare-festival/) - MANAHATTA tells the stories of 400 years of interactions between peoples of different powers and cultures. The play doesn't blink, it also doesn't preach.
- [Day 6 -- Metro Keeps Hanging In and MUNI Gets Cute](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-6-metro-keeps-hanging-in-and-muni-gets-cute/) - The morning hospital report on Metro was okay, but not great. Meanwhile, MUNI had her first moments of behavioral cuteness today.
- [Day 4 -- There's Something to Be Said for Stability](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-4-theres-something-to-be-said-for-stability/) - The ER vets just called. Metro has drunk his last two meals from a bottle! But, he is have trouble staying warm. So, he's staying there tonight.
- [Day 5 - The Tale of Two Puppies Continues](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-5-the-tale-of-two-puppies-continues/) - Our puppies continue their divergent paths. Metro did only okay overnight. MUNI, on the other hand, is loving life.
- ["The Way the Mountain Moved" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-way-the-mountain-moved-at-the-oregon-shakespeare-festival/) - "The Way the Mountain Moved" earns a star for attempting a complex subject and another for the quality of the acting; there's no stars for the actual play.
- [Zenith's Puppies -- Day One](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/zeniths-puppies-day-one/) - At 2:02 this afternoon Zenith gave birth to a girl who was followed by a boy. It's now 10:15 at night and here's a report of the day with links to pictures.
- ["The Book of Will" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-book-of-will-at-the-oregon-shakespeare-festival/) - The Book of Will is a thin story that allows memorable speech to follow memorable speech. You will feel well entertained and happy to have seen the production.
- [Snow in Midsummer](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/snow-in-midsummer/) - Snow in Midsummer may be the best play of the season. It certainly is the best production most likely to be overlooked by old-chestnut-seeking theater goers.
- [Oklahoma!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/oklahoma/) - Oklahoma is masterpiece. OSF envisioned a very ambitious concept and delivered a show that honored the traditional while living in the 2018 social landscape.
- [Repeating Today's Big Lie, <br>or Defending Sessions' and Trump's Policy Separating Families](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/separating_families/) - This week's uproar on separating children from their asylum-seeking parents unpleasantly confirms how far apart on basic morality we are in this country.
- [Vietgone](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/vietgone/) - "Vietgone" at ACT San Francisco is a 4 1/2 star production. The play itself is 5 stars with suburb writing which hits the mark in storytelling, characterization, pace, and perspective.
- [Henry V](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/henry-v/) - Daniel José Molina (Henry V) and other cast members deliver many truly spectacular moments which make this Henry a must see. Unfortunately, Director Rosa Joshi's choices diminish the impact of the play itself.
- [Sense and Sensibility](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sense-and-sensibility/) - This "updated adaption" turns out to be a completely uninspired snoozefest of outdated manners humor unworthy of the acting talent and craft workers it wastes. Although I wouldn't walk out on it, I'd recommend that you turn back your tickets.
- [Destiny of Desire](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/destiny-of-desire/) - "Destiny of Desire" is an evening of a schlocky, cheesy, unbelievable, perfectly-executed, spectacularly entertaining, brilliantly-written live telenovela.
- [Othello](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/othello-2/) - Bill Rauch's Othello is a masterful performance that exemplifies the uniqueness of the talent and vision of the artists at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. They restore the many detailed narratives and human depths so that Othello is a modern horror.
- [Imaginary Comforts <br />or the Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/imaginary-comforts/) - Imaginary Comforts or the Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit is simultaneously clear and chaotic. The purpose of each scene is obvious, but only when it is.
- [Henry IV, Part 2](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/henry-iv-part-2/) - The production of Henry IV, Part 2 is completely destroyed by an actor who does not know his lines and cannot read them. Play rating: 0 out of 5
- [Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/priscilla/) - 5 Stars for Priscilla. I wouldn't have wanted them to change anything. There was a perfection in this performance that embraced its slight imperfections.
- [Why I Had to March in Pride this Year: #SFPrideResist](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/pride2017_resist/) - I marched in Pride this year for the first time in many years. Because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, I had to.
- [Phishing in Googleland](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/phishing-in-googleland/) - UPDATE May 30, 2017 I received email from Joel Stephens in response to this post providing a link with lots of information on phishing: what to look for and how to avoid getting caught. For more good phishing information, see "Common phishing scams and how to recognise and avoid them" . I haven't seen this
- [UniSon](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/unison/) - UniSon is a brief, brilliant, shotgun wedding between poetry and drama, lubricated into position with just the right amount, and right style, of original music.
- [Henry IV, Part One](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/henry-iv-part-one/) - OSF's "Henry IV, Part I" is a very, very good, solid, and credible experience. But, I didn't feel I'd experienced a revelation. Rating: 4 out of 5 Syntaxes
- [Hannah and the Dread Gazebo](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/hannah-and-the-dread-gazebo/) - The audience has a wonderful time seeing a fun show with amusing characters. But, what's amusing them is Asian stereotypes. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
- [The Trump Revolution I Worry About Most , Part II](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/revolution-ii/) - Revolutions are caused by frustrated expectations. So, I worry about the United States in the Trump era and how the people his policies hurt will react.
- [The Trump Revolution I Worry About Most , Part I](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/revolution-1/) - Revolutions are caused by frustrated expectations. So, I worry about the United States in the Trump era.
- [The Inauguration Playlist](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/inauguration-day-playlist/) - When President Trump is inaugurated we will need appropriate music. We've ID'ed 20 songs, starting with "Eve of Destruction". Send us your ideas, too!
- [Twelfth Night](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/twelfth-night/) - The Oregon Shakespeare Festival offered a brilliant, fun concept for this workhorse comedy. Unfortunately it was more riot and artistic romp.
- [366 Consecutive Days of Exercise](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/366-consecutive-days-of-exercise/) - Every day in 2016 I did at least 30 minutes of exercise. The compulsive streak is the fault of Doug Wilcoxen, even though I haven't seen him since 1975>
- [It's Not Locker Room Talk, It's Jail House Bragging](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/its-not-locker-room-talk/) - Trump was bragging about his deeds like a bad guy in the jail house caught on a wire. He wasn't just sleaze talking in the locker room.
- [Great Expectations](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/great-expectations/) - This world premiere adaptation of Dickens' Victorian novel fails to adapt the story to the theater. The evening earns a rating of only two out of five Syntaxes.
- [The River Bride](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-river-bride/) - New play by Marisela Treviño Orta that ran during the spring at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival earns 3 out of 5 Syntaxes as it fails to engage.
- [Talking to LGBT Refugees About the Orlando Shootings](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/talking-to-lgbt-refugees-about-orlando/) - Today I contacted all four of the gay men for whom I have helped resettle in San Francisco. I wanted to check in. How were they after the murders in Orlando?
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 25](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-25/) - Pink's Turn. Not a bad look from my least favorite color...
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 32 -- For Earth Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-32-for-earth-day/) - Honoring Earth Day
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 31](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-31/) - Golden Flowers in San Francisco's Maritime National Historical Park
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 30](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-30/) - Squirrel! Not especially WILDlife, but part of nature in the city.
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 29](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-29/) - Nature in Pioneer Park off Telegraph Hill Road by Coit Tower
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 28](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-28/) - Hidden Flower: Another gem in the church courtyard
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 27](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-27/) - Courtyard Orchids: Flowers in the church courtyard planter.
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 26](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-26/) - Mission Rock tide pool and its inhabitants
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 24](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-24/) - Succulent Neighbor: Nature in our next door neighbor's driveway planter.
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 23](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-23/) - Pigeon on 23rd Street: Rats with Wings... they're part of nature, right?
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 22](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-22/) - Reds are My Favorites in roses and dachshunds and ...
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 21](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-21/) - Lilly Says it's Time to Open. Now we have more back yard decoration.
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 20](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-20/) - Church Orchids: More courtyard ornaments
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 19](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-19/) - San Francisco Desert Bloom: You Call THAT a Flower?
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 18](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-18/) - The Front Yard Gets Its Turn: Roses in the front planter.
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 17](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-17/) - Sunrise in Noe Valley: Looking east from the back steps
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 16](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-16/) - Bottlebrush on Castro Street: Street tree on the way from home to the Castro
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 15](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-15/) - Street Bougainvillea seen on the way from home to the Castro
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 14](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-14/) - Roses: there are no other names for them
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 13](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-13/) - Dark Flower: Aeonium Schwarzkopf
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 12](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-12/) - Nature in the Office: accountants stock up
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 11](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-11/) - Smelly fence: Spring in the back yard.
- [Climate Justice Month,  D-2](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-d-2/) - A slick lily in our backyard kicks off photos of nature taken in honor of Climate Justice Month
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 10](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-10/) - Eating Nature: Office fruit bowl
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 8](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-8/) - Urban nature: spring in the Crocker Galleria
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 9](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-9/) - Tulips in Bloom: More from the Crocker Galleria
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 7](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-7/) - Nature in a Pot: Geranium flowering in the back yard
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 6](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-6/) - Church Courtyard Ornament
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 5](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-5/) - May Lemonade
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 4](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-4/) - Gorgeous Weeds flower in the sun
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 3](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-3/) - Determination
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 2](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-2/) - Obscene Fertility
- [Climate Justice Month, Day 1](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-day-1/) - Honoring World Water Day
- [Climate Justice Month, D-1](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/climate-justice-month-d-1/) - Roses in the backyard.
- [Rock Hudson Died of Alzheimer's](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/rock-hudson-died-of-alzheimers/) - Hillary Clinton explains that she conflated the fight against AIDS with the fight against Alzheimer's disease. Hers is a truly horrific statement.
- [Throw Back Thursday](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/throw-back-thursday/) - Kayseri, Turkey on my Weather Underground dashboard is a TBT reminder of the powerless I felt helping a 21-year-old Iranian refugee who I knew only from Skype.
- [Super Mediocre City](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/super-bowl-city/) - Super Bowl City sizzles with mundane mediocrity. We share our tour of the overwhelmingly corporate, logo-leaden, viciously bland space downtown San Francisco.
- ["A Song at Twilight"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-song-at-twilight/) - Theatre Rhinoceros’ A Song at Twilight is an excellent production in every way. Its short, two-week run is almost half over, and I say grab a ticket....
- [What Is the Motive of the Roseburg Shooter?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/what-is-the-motive-of-the-roseburg-shooter/) - We crave the ability to understand the psychotic's mental process.But, trying to translate crazy thought into a rational motive is nonsensical.
- [My Life as a Birthright Unitarian](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/born_unitarian/) - How I was born a Unitarian and how that has helped shaped my life. Delivered at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco.
- [Sweat](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sweat/) - Review of of Lynn Nottage's "Sweat". This world premier feels like a shaken-out classic. 5 out of 5 stars.
- [The Happiest Song Plays Last](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-happiest-song-plays-last/) - This play is a gripping, draining, intense, tender, and difficult. The production succeeds magnificently because of director Shishir Kurup and the cast.
- [Head Over Heels -- World Premiere](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/head-over-heels-world-premiere/) - Head Over Heels is the latest saucy work from the razor-sharp, careful, sensitive, and insanely clever mind of Jeff Whitty. Exquisitely fun. 5 stars out of 5.
- [Anthony and Cleopatra](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/anthony-and-cleopatra/) - In this two-star production, Anthony and Cleopatra rule their empire with the subtlety and regalness of Donald Trump and Charo. The set design is the best part
- [The Count of Monte Cristo](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/count-monte-cristo/) - Oregon's Shakespeare Festival delivered an energetic, accurate, and enjoyable The Count of Monte Cristo. 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.
- [If You Like Donald Trump, You'll Love Bernie Sanders](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/if-you-like-donald-trump-youll-love-bernie-sanders/) - If you want a President who speaks straight-forwardly and without a focus-group filter you can vote for Donald Trump. But, you may like Bernie's soul better.
- [How  to Increase the Power of Special Interests](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/how-to-increase-the-power-of-special-interests/) - Term limits destroy the ability of legislators to get to know each other and to govern. Today's simplistic calls for Congressional term limits are wrong.
- [The Best Season Opening](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/osf-opening/) - Oregon Shakespeare Festival's season opening this past weekend showcased four excellent productions. It was the strongest festival start I've experienced.
- [Don't Make Me Go to the Mall](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dont-make-me-go-to-the-mall/) - There's nothing that makes me feel more like shopping than some pseudo jihadist telling me I shouldn't.
- [Climate Change Denial, Vaccine Scares, and Support of Israel](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/netanyahu/) - If Netanyahu speaks to Congress bipartisan support for Israel will end. We'll lump together Climate Change Denial, Vaccine Scares, and Support of Israel.
- [Do You Want to Be Self-Righteous or Effective?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/protests/) - Most protesters and most cops are intellectually on the same side of the issue of race and fairness. The best way to change our police departments is to work together and not blame and hate and point fingers.
- [Stop Robbing MUNI - Vote No on Prop A](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/stop-robbing-muni-vote-no-on-prop-a/) - The politicians are selling Prop A as way to save MUNI, but they're giving away money to special interests instead. Vote NO on A.
- [Prop A Proponents Send Out Untrue Mailer ](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/no-on-prop-a/) - Beyond the truth-bending assertion Prop A will make MUNI more reliable is the untrue statement that the MUNI magic will be done "without raising taxes".
- [$500 Million for Bike Lanes.  $0 for MUNI](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/500-million-for-bike-lanes-0-for-muni/) - Vote NO on Prop A. Proponents say that they want money for MUNI, but the legal wording lets the money all go to bike lanes.
- [How to Pay a Lot for a Special Neighborhood and Then Make Sure You Don't Get It](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/how-to-pay-a-lot-for-a-special-neighborhood-and-then-make-sure-you-dont-get-it/) - I’ve been watching with morbid fascination the pace of construction and renovation going on in our Noe Valley neighborhood. Building crews claim street lanes and parking spots. Debris boxes and temporary no parking signs are featured on every block. I know that a lot of the activity in our Noe Valley neighborhood is caused by
- [The Great Society](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-great-society/) - Every component of The Great Society works. The writing, the production vision, the stagecraft, the acting make memorable theater
- [Family Album](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/family-album/) - The only debate we have about Family Album is whether it is the worst thing we've ever seen at OSF. It's a one-star disaster
- [Richard III](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/richard-iii-2/) - The overall feel of the production was late high school, early college. A lot of wishy-washy characters saying important words, but few real emotional connections to the story behind the well-known classic language. What a disappointment.
- [Brendan Eich Had to Go](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/brendan-eich-had-to-go/) - Brendan Eich tried to talk equality while supporting inequality. Mozilla was right in catching his hypocrisy and obtaining his resignation.
- [The Tempest](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-tempest-2/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Tempest by William Shakespeare Director Tony Taccone should be ashamed. This Tempest not only lacked insight and sharpness, my group of friends was struggling at intermission to recall a more juvenile, poorly executed production. Most of us went back to junior high school to match the feel of
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-75/) - Mon, 14:55: Folks who ask me for computer help: this is NOT a Drill! If you're still running XP, upgrade or unplug by April 8. http://t.co/uSx7Cjy70T Mon, 18:22: Mondays are for date night and the best Manhattans in The City. (@ Eureka Restaurant & Lounge) on #Yelp http://t.co/xJ26beeAYc Mon, 18:24: Come before. 7 Sun- Thu
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-74/) - Thu, 10:37: Happy Spring! A warm start to the summer: 69 degrees and sunny at 10:30 in the morning here in SF! http://t.co/8rgBVJkwif
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-73/) - Wed, 10:30: Personal stories of newly arrived LGBT refugees in the Bay Area on KQED today and tomorrow at 2pm http://t.co/QsURpGHm32
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-72/) - Wed, 17:05: Vote to make this nominee the BEST Romantic Restaurant. Eureka: http://t.co/Iy5JBQhRFh Wed, 17:06: Vote to make this nominee the BEST Waterfront Dining. Forbes Island: http://t.co/jX1J8qjt1f
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-71/) - Mon, 15:40: From the Dachshund Liberation Front http://t.co/0k5EAM0IYB
- [Giving Protest a Bad Name](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/giving-protest-a-bad-name/) - photo: Gawker.comYesterday's protest against the Google bus is a very odd thing. Providing transportation to your employees without even asking for public funding strikes me as a very Good Citizen thing to do. You're taking cars off the road and providing a benefit to your employees. What's not to like? What's not to applaud? Sure,
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-70/) - Mon, 10:35: A Solution to Your Customer Communications Dilemma: a cost-effective newsletter service starts http://t.co/d6JgmyGcHA
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-69/) - Sat, 16:10: Just in Time for the holidays: 4 Things You Need to Create an E-Newsletter http://t.co/JITMnjwWbu
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-68/) - Tue, 21:30: Yea!! @RedOzdachs for giving the best small business tip and winning a Nexus 7 at the #xeroroadshow today
- [A Completely Wonderful Vacation Completed](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-completely-wonderful-vacation-completed/) - Geoff and Galen on Mauna Kea Ten days at sea with Geoffrey and four days visiting Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii are complete. I won't attempt wordy superlative descriptions, but I will organize and share the best of the 889 photographs over the next weeks. We expected good sites and great moments together. We got
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-67/) - Wed, 17:35: It truly seems that Tea Party leaders are like old-style politicians, scaring people for their own agenda. Sad. http://t.co/sAhBNJ0TYz
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-66/) - Tue, 15:40: The Dangers of Fighting the Last War http://t.co/R4EPytKxPx
- [The Dangers of Fighting the Last War](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-dangers-of-fighting-the-last-war/) - I remember when I was an idealistic teenager studying world history in high school. I recall how all of us kept demanding that the teacher tell us how could other countries, including the United States, did nothing to stop Adolph Hitler in the early days of his reign. He clearly stepped over internationally agreed-upon boundaries:
- [Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/extremism-in-the-defense-of-liberty-is-no-vice/) - This morning's posts bemoaning the sentencing of a self-anointed savior of freedom are not very persuasive to me. Moreover, I find their tone disturbing. Folks! Really! Assumptions of absolute evil in the hearts of those on the other side of an issue is ugly. It's not liberal, either. Deciding that you and your friends alone
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-65/) - Tue, 14:34: When Amber Alerts Hurt http://t.co/SW7mVlcdYV
- [When Amber Alerts Hurt](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/when-amber-alerts-hurt/) - "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!" Crying "Wolf" is the problem I have with last night's Amber Alert that broadcast on cellphones throughout California a BOLO about a missing child from Boulevard, California. Which CHP genius decided to make the alert statewide when the incident occurred near the Mexican border AND, according to reports I read, the authorities
- [Welcome to Apex and Zenith](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/welcome-to-apex-and-zenith/) - Ozdachs Kennels is proud to announce that the puppies have approved of their adult call names. Jill has taken the name Apex. Janice has taken the name Zenith. Thank you to all of our friends who helped select these adult names. They were the top selections in our survey, and Geoffrey and Galen both like
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-64/) - Tue, 19:21: Sit outside, even if it's windy. The heaters will keep you plenty warm. (@ The Dead Fish) on #Yelp http://t.co/Hxv6wJhzZA
- [A Streetcar Named Desire](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-streetcar-named-desire/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams When a complicated, difficult story plays out flawlessly and naturally, the review of the performance can only lift up a part at a time. Any look back on OSF's A Streetcar Named Desire will fail to capture the depth and flow of
- [King Lear](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/king-lear/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalKing Lear by William Shakespeare I guess it's a relief to discover that Artist Director Bill Rauch can stumble as a director. After seeing one amazing Rauch production after another, year in and year out, it is cathartic to experience a badly-focused, inconsistent performance in which many actors and
- [Puppy Names](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/puppy-names/) - Show dogs have at least three names during their lives: names they are called when they are puppies, names they are called around the house when they go to their permanent homes, and the official AKC names. SeQueL (her permanent home name), for example, had a fine puppy name of Katrina. And, her formal AKC
- [A Litter is Born](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-litter-is-born/) - SeQueL gave birth by Caesarian Section to two healthy girls between 1:10 and 1:20 pm May 1, 2013. Geoffrey and I have posted/will continue to post many pictures on Facebook and, in higher quality, on SmugMug. Here are some of the basics about our girls. SeQueL was inseminated on February 28th and again on March
- [Ozdachs Terrific Cyclone ML](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ozdachs-terrific-cyclone-ml/) - Vector died on his kitchen floor about a foot from where he was born. He was a home boy... he never spent a night outside of the house. We think he had a good long life. Not long enough, mind you, but a good one all of the days.
- [I Oppose Recology's Rate Increase Proposal](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-oppose-recologys-rate-increase-proposal/) - San Francisco's local trash hauler -- which I bet we now are supposed to call a "waste management system" -- is asking to increase rates by 21.5%. I believe it is so high that it should not be taken seriously. The 21.5% hike is absurd, even as an opening negotiation position. If I were running
- [Why Does This Red Cross Appeal Feel Sleazy to Me?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/why-does-this-red-cross-appeal-feel-sleazy-to-me/) - This emailed request for donations thumped into my inbox about 2 pm today. It bothers me. I know the Red Cross does lots of great work. I know they are doing that work now. I have given them money in the past to help support their work. But, still. This email is just too damn
- [What We're Doing for SeQueL](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/what-were-doing-for-sequel/) - Last Monday we went to the reproductive vet for a routine, post-no-puppy check-up to make sure that SeQueL's body was returning to normal. Unfortunately, it was not. Instead, her uterus is irritated and producing mucus. This happens, and the doctors don't yet understand the underlying cause. SeQueL doesn't feel bad, but the condition will not
- [A Comfortable Non-Pregnant Girl](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-comfortable-non-pregnant-girl/) - SeQueL is not pregnant, but she is healthy and very comfortable. When we went to the reproductive specialist vet a couple weeks ago, the ultrasound showed no living puppies. The vet, Dr. Janice Cain of Bishop Ranch Veterinary Center is the area's best, according to our breeder friends who insisted that we go to her, even
- [Why I am Voting for Barack Obama and Democrats this Year](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/why-i-am-voting-for-barack-obama-and-democrats-this-year/) - Today the forces of liberalism face a crisis. The people of the United States must make a choice between two ways of living--a decision, which will affect us the rest of our lives and our children and our grandchildren after us.On the other side, there is the Wall Street way of life and politics. Trust
- [Promise Kept](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/promise-kept/) - I went to the San Francisco SOMA Gold’s Gym this morning for my normal workout, but it wasn’t there. The family that owns the local Gold’s franchise kept their 2010 promise to move their 4 gyms away from Gold’s when their contractual obligations ended. Instead of the yellow and black Gold’s logo, I was greeted
- [Troilus and Cressida](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/troilus-and-cressida/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalTroilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Most of the flash and bang of this infrequently produced Shakespeare play comes from the modern ordinance that accompanies Troilus and Cressida's teleportation into the 21st Century Middle East. T&C is not bad entertainment, but I experienced no bite, no zing in this
- [Party People](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/party-people/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalParty People by UNIVERSES (Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Steven Sapp, and William Ruiz/Ninja) developed and directed by Liesl Tommy The authors of this world-premiere, commissioned American Revolutions production told us in the post-performance audience talk-back that the Young Lords and the Black Panthers had effected their lives even though they had
- [All The Way](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/all-the-way/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalAll the Way by Robert Schenkkan Robert Schenkkan has written a masterful script that projects a sharp look at the leaders of America during the year which was more or less between my 10th and 11th birthdays. I had expected a pleasant play that would remind me of my
- [The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-very-merry-wives-of-windsor-iowa/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa Written by Alison Carey Adapted from the play by William Shakespeare I cannot recall walking out at intermission at Oregon Shakespeare Festival before, but unless I was going to start hissing from the front row, I had to leave last night. This
- [On Dirty, Thieving Politicians](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/on-dirty-thieving-politicians/) - In our negative narrative world, the dirty, thieving politicians are all deserving only of scorn, criticism, and abuse. Members of Congress are out-of-touch, corrupt, pandering, and stupid buffoons. The ones we vote for are only the of lesser of two evils on the ballot. The office holders of national statue are truly kings of the
- [Why We Cannot Ticket Cars Enough to Stop Pedestrian Deaths](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/why-we-cannot-ticket-cars-enough-to-stop-pedestrian-deaths/) - I make no excuses for fast-driving, red-light-running, I-yield-to-no-one-drivers. I do not minimize the pain caused by aggressive and distracted operators of cars, trucks, SUVs, or MUNI buses. But folks! We have to move beyond the eco-politics paradigm where pedestrians are always good, bicyclists okay, and motor vehicles are evil, if we are going to decrease
- [Maureen McGovern at the Rrazz Room](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/maureen-mcgovern-at-the-rrazz-room/) - The curse of the Rrazz Room Cabaret is that its runs are so short that you cannot tell people of great performances there before they are over. We enjoyed Maureen McGovern there last night immensely, but she's gone after tonight's show. But, if you act quickly there's still time to Come On Down! The live Maureen has
- [Seagull](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/seagull/) - Ashland, Oregon Opening Performance, February 26, 2012 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Seagull Written by Anton Chekhov Adapted and Directed by Libby Appel A three-word summary review of Seagull: unfortunate play selection. Everything about this production was well done. The actors hit the right note in everything they did. Chris Acebo’s set took inventive advantage
- [The White Snake](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-white-snake/) - Ashland, Oregon World Premiere Opening Performance, February 25, 2012 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The White Snake Written and Directed by Mary ZimmermanPlaywright Mary Zimmerman has distilled an ancient, often modified, Chinese legend of The White Snake into a coherent, relevant, engrossing, artistic, and accessible 138-minute story. The text is stylized and full of Eastern
- [Romeo and Juliet](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/romeo-and-juliet-2/) - Ashland, Oregon Opening Night at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare In Director Laird Williamson vision, Romeo and Juliet is a farcical melodramatic moral play filled with bawdy clowns. It’s a slapstick tragedy, a category underrepresented on modern stage. The script’s only fault is the pesky obvious rhymes and flowery language
- [Sequel's People](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sequels-people/) - As exhibitors, our favorite dog show is the Golden Gate Kennel Club’s event at the Cow Palace. The show runs the last Saturday and Sunday of January every year, and it’s unusual because it is “benched.” That means the dogs in competition must come be on available for public viewing the whole day. Just like
- [Want to Make Sure Your Dog isn't From a Puppy Mill?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/want-to-make-sure-your-dog-isnt-from-a-puppy-mill/) - Saturday and Sunday the Golden Gate Kennel Club holds its annual dog show at the San Francisco Cow Palace. Come on down to find a responsible breeder for a healthy dog, or simply gawk at the variety of canines... there will be over 1,000 to stare at! This show is special. At most dog shows
- [Мои твиты](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/мои-твиты-6/) - Сб, 16:29: Why Cruise Lines May Not Be Safe After All - what the Costa Concordia disaster makes me consider. http://t.co/WxfIn2U6
- [Why Cruise Lines May Not Be Safe After All](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/why-cruise-lines-may-not-be-safe-after-all/) - Our family cruises. We're almost to the perk level of getting free laundry on Princess Cruises, and we've persuaded nervous friends that they won't get seasick or stranded at sea when they book on one of today's cruise lines. But, the chronic lying, chaos, and blame passing by the brass associated with Carnival Corporation's wrecked
- [Thank You for Ending the Iraq War](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/thank-you-for-ending-the-iraq-war/) - In Iowa President Obama’s campaign headquarters is the target of anti-war Occupiers demanding the dismantling of the “ U.S. military empire.” . A photograph of the protesters taken Sunday shows fresh-faced people mugging for the camera in friendly sincerity. The Occupiers were apparently either oblivious or unmoved by the news that the final American troops
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-63/) - Tue, 06:02: Looking for News? Skip This Week’s Focus on the Debt-Reduction Super Committee http://t.co/vi3W4ZMD
- [Looking for News? Skip This Week’s Focus on the Debt-Reduction Super Committee](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/looking-for-news-skip-this-weeks-focus-on-the-debt-reduction-super-committee/) - This week’s media frenzy is a super-sized, minute-by-minute coverage of the failure of the Congressional Super Committee to reach an agreement on cutting $1.2 Trillion from the budget deficit. We’re going to see lead stories detailing the up-to-the-second state of failed negotiations. And, every news outlet will have a juicy feature story with someone’s opinion
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-62/) - Tue, 12:14: I just cast my ballot proudly for Bevan Dufty for Mayor. #sfmayor http://t.co/odMfBdpP
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-61/) - Mon, 11:28: RT @BevanDufty: A great morning read about my campaign. http://t.co/XlNP4qaM #sfmayor #teambevan
- [Мои твиты](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/мои-твиты-5/) - Вс, 07:52: How Bevan Dufty Became My First Choice for Mayor http://t.co/ZjdrwAmb Вс, 09:26: How Bevan Dufty Became My First Choice for San Francisco Mayor http://t.co/ayjOgH2X
- [How Bevan Dufty Became My First Choice for Mayor](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/how-bevan-dufty-became-my-first-choice-for-mayor/) - Bevan Dufty is my first choice for Mayor, probably because I think he is most like the person I would be if I were willing to put up with a life in politics. Bevan has lots of ideas, but isn’t ideological. Instead of grandstanding, he’s practical. He watches details and focuses on real-world ways to
- [Мои твиты](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/мои-твиты-4/) - Чт, 06:21: Occupy Stupid Land http://t.co/iP8HvM6M Чт, 07:43: Occupy Stupid Land, My first Technorati post. http://t.co/FnVCMEAy
- [Occupy Stupid Land](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/occupy-stupid-land/) - Congratulations to the fringe of the Occupy movements for completely switching the focus of the protest from the powerful economic justice issues to the thinly-supported demand for the Right to Camp Anywhere. The news reports and Tweets are no longer talking about executive salaries and Wall Street. Instead they are counting the number of plates
- [9-9-9](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/9-9-9/) - When I was a 911 police dispatcher, some nights the psychos would all call in, and sometimes they'd all call about the same odd thing... like the witches on their porch. Even though these damaged folks didn't know each other and were calling in separately to the police, their complaints would be similar. It was spooky.
- [Мои твиты](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/мои-твиты-3/) - Ср, 18:50: RT @BorowitzReport: Right now, Goldman Sachs is investing in pepper-spray futures. #OccupyWallStreet Ср, 18:50: RT @routesy: Steve Jobs made us believe that technology can make lives better. Let's honor his legacy by creating a world he could never ...
- [Мои твиты](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/мои-твиты-2/) - Пн, 17:53: A Positive Ad from Bevan Dufty, a Class Candidate for SF Mayor http://j.mp/o0HfEH
- [A Positive Ad from Bevan Dufty, a Class Candidate for SF Mayor](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-positive-ad-from-bevan-dufty-a-class-candidate-for-sf-mayor/) - If I wasn't already supporting Devan Dufty, this ad would get me to consider him. It's not nasty, vicious, or strident. I just hope it's effective!
- [Мои твиты](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/мои-твиты/) - Пт, 06:45: RT @BorowitzReport: Cable news loves to cover popular uprisings around the world, unless they're happening in lower Manhattan.
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-60/) - Thu, 10:01: RT @sallykohn "In America... the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - Steinbeck
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-59/) - Mon, 14:19: RT @BorowitzReport: Obama: "This isn't class warfare, it's math." Bachmann: "Those are fighting words - I mean the math part."
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-58/) - Sun, 17:51: The League of Woman Voters' video sums up why I support Bevan Dufty http://t.co/F35SfRTP
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-57/) - Fri, 14:47: Hey SF Friends... KGO is broadcasting live from the SF Food Bank right now. Listen and Donate to feed your neighbors! http://t.co/v48IN94x
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-56/) - Fri, 06:44: KGO Radio Fights Hunger Radio-thon http://j.mp/pkbmCc Fri, 08:30: I support KGO radio's "hunger-thon" which is raising money for Bay Area Food Banks. I gave before breakfast. Join me! http://t.co/v48IN94x
- [KGO Radio Fights Hunger Radio-thon](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/kgo-radio-fights-hunger-radio-thon/) - Local radio station KGO 810 am is broadcasting all day today from local food banks. Their news features and call-in programs are focused on providing food to our neighbors who are in tough times. (More information and to donate.) Good for KGO. I appreciate their publicity of an issue we would like to pretend doesn't
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-55/) - Mon, 06:39: RT @BorowitzReport: 2001: President & Congress vow to defeat extremists. 2011: Congress & extremists vow to defeat President.
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-54/) - Sat, 12:39: Commercializing 9-11 http://j.mp/pkhvKI Sat, 13:03: Commercializing 9-11: Businesses large and small: Leave 9-11 out of your sales and client communications, okay? http://t.co/1l8yc1y
- [Commercializing 9-11](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/commercializing-9-11/) - Wells Fargo's ATMs are telling customers to reflect on 9-11. I don't think businesses should use 9-11 at all in their commercial messages. Read more.
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-53/) - Mon, 10:15: The African Company Presents Richard III http://j.mp/rp4uh5
- [The African Company Presents Richard III](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-african-company-presents-richard-iii/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe African Company Presents Richard III by Carlyle Brown The African Company Presents Richard III is a very satisfying vehicle to exhibit extraordinary acting in service of a a not terrible, not overwrought script. The play-within-a-play scenes give us some riveting moments as the actors play their characters and
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-52/) - Sat, 18:09: Ghost Light http://j.mp/ncsXOh
- [Ghost Light](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ghost-light/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalGhost Light conceived and developed by Jonathan Moscone and Tony Taccone written by Tony Taccone directed by Jonathan Moscone When Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced it was commissioning a play on the shooting of Harvey Milk and George Moscone I was half pleased that gay civil rights would be a
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-51/) - Fri, 15:53: RT @BorowitzReport: Does it concern anyone else that the Weather Channel now says "Sponsored by the Ancient Mayans"?
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-50/) - Wed, 11:44: August: Osage County http://j.mp/pGdYmr
- [August: Osage County](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/august-osage-county/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalAugust: Osage County by Tracy Letts We saw the evening performance of August: Osage County the same day as the matinée of Ghost Light. With apologizes to the Pulitzer jury and to our many friends who felt that August had the best of all possible characterizations and story, in
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-49/) - Fri, 14:20: The Pirates of Penzance http://j.mp/psUDxD
- [The Pirates of Penzance](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-pirates-of-penzance/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan What a silly, talented romp! I cannot imagine a better production of this classic piece of fluff. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival delivers 200% of the music and action of the show. The production is physically dazzling, inventive, and big. The voices,
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-48/) - Thu, 11:43: Willful http://j.mp/rdseNj
- [Willful](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/willful/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalWillful Two days later Willful is still coming up in meal conversations and rides in the car. We're still sharing insights of what we experienced and delighting over twists and conceits that worked for us. Or, maybe that one didn't even exist except in our own mind. When you
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-47/) - Tue, 12:27: Henry IV, Part II http://j.mp/qXqmrg
- [Henry IV, Part II](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/henry-iv-part-ii/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalHenry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare The consistently inept directing of Shakespeare at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is inexcusable. Artistic Director Bill Rauch is brilliant in his own handling of Shakespeare and is visionary about many, many aspects of the festival. But, his chronic hiring of weak, inexperienced
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-46/) - Sun, 07:46: @MeredithMcHenry Thanks to @Tivo, we just saw your amazing performances. Can't wait to see your next round of competition. @ABCKarokeUSA
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-45/) - Fri, 10:26: RT @BorowitzReport: READ Moody's Downgrades US Credit Rating to "It's Complicated" http://t.co/lrQjU9c
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-44/) - Sat, 10:37: If you're coming into the City Sunday beware of the mess the San Francisco Marathon will cause. Here's a list: http://bit.ly/qOknej
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-43/) - Tue, 17:28: Debt Ceiling and Demagoguery http://j.mp/qZ5rc4
- [Debt Ceiling and Demagoguery](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/debt-ceiling-and-demagoguery/) - A friend on Facebook posted links to today's Fox News rabble-rousing, hate-America message. The flavor of bile this month is, of course, raising the debt ceiling. Can we talk? It is simply nutty to refuse to raise the debt ceiling to pay for programs Congress has already passed. It's like using your credit card and then
- [Tales of the City](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tales-of-the-city/) - San Francisco, CA at the American Conservatory TheaterTales of the City World Premiere of a New Musical (Closes July 31, 2011 -- Limited Discount Tickets -- $45 orchestra -- available) Libretto by Jeff Whitty Music and Lyrics by Jake Shears and John Garden San Franciscans of a certain age all know exactly what the characters,
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-42/) - Sat, 11:42: Sales on Tales -- Link to Discounts on Tales of the City Tickets http://j.mp/nOp9EH
- [Sales on Tales -- Link to Discounts on Tales of the City Tickets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sales-on-tales-link-to-discounts-on-tales-of-the-city-tickets/) - ACT's Tales of the City is closing on the 31st. Geoff and I have seen it twice and loved it... especially the second time when some sound mushines had been fixed. ACT is offering some discounted tickets ($45 orchestra seats). I say go for it! Discount Link: http://www.act-sf.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=14024.0&dlv_id=17224
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-41/) - Fri, 08:44: RT @Essie31: RT @ravisomaiya: RT @cfklebergtt: Police stop reporter of #Norway's Aftenposten: "because ther… (cont) http://deck.ly/~ftBxa
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-40/) - Fri, 14:42: A Guide to Torchwood. Best line: "It's the show you wanted V to be." http://bit.ly/nIAE1k #fb Sat, 10:27: They don't make them like they used to: Lightbulb on since 1901, confirmed by snopes.com #fb http://bit.ly/nQNkuo
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-39/) - Thu, 15:29: LinkedIn Lets Me Opt Out -- their legal department finds a link that works #fb http://bit.ly/oNUrcM
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-38/) - Tue, 16:48: Fatty foods trigger your body’s marijuana-like chemicals. Consumers' Reports says that fries give you the munchies. http://bit.ly/nucfMh #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-37/) - Sun, 09:01: Country Willows Bed & Breakfast on #Yelp: Perfection+ has returned to Country Willows in Ashland, OR. http://bit.ly/kfaghU
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-36/) - Mon, 13:49: RT @BorowitzReport: Sarah Palin must be looking at Michele Bachmann and feeling the way the Jonas Bros felt about Justin Bieber. #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-35/) - Thu, 23:34: Senators to IRS: Fix the Gay Tax Mess - http://bit.ly/kLDsZ8 #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-34/) - Tue, 14:34: PIMCO Founder To Deficit-Obsessed Congress: Get Back To Reality #fb http://bit.ly/jcup9s
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-33/) - Tue, 10:16: Happy Summer! #fb Tue, 14:34: PIMCO Founder To Deficit-Obsessed Congress: Get Back To Reality #fb http://bit.ly/jcup9s
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-32/) - Mon, 07:24: Sarah Palin and Paul Revere http://j.mp/mezyG3 9SP3ARV9XMMW
- [Sarah Palin and Paul Revere](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sarah-palin-and-paul-revere/) - Dear Sarah, Just say you messed up in the confused media frenzy of the moment and move on. Or not. Please do not try to re-write history which you seem to know little about. It's mildly annoying and very disappointing.
- [The Language Archive](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-language-archive/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Language Archive by Julia Cho I saw the opening performance of The Language Archive in February and suffered much embarrassment on our drive up to Ashland for our annual Memorial Day visit as I was asked about the play. Even when I was prompted with a listing of
- [Imaginary Invalid](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/imaginary-invalid/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalImaginary Invalid written by Moliere adapted by Oded Gross and Tracy Young Nothing is more pointless than dragging a 450-year-old social satire on to the stage with the original words, digs, and references in tact. I was not looking forward to a dusty homage to Moliere, but my expectations
- [Julius Caesar](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/julius-caesar/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare All the best moments of this production of Julius Caesar come before Shakespeare's words are heard on stage: The banners in front of the New Theater venue and in its lobbies memorialize assassinated leaders from Xerxes in ancient Persia through Indira Gandhi in modern
- [Measure for Measure](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/measure-for-measure/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalMeasure for Measure by William Shakespeare Shakespeare never tired having his lead characters dress up in disguises and hinging plot lines on the fallout of mistaken identity or secret observations. I, on the other hand, am weary of boys dressed as girls dressed as boys and kings posing as commoners acting
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-31/) - Sat, 14:34: Why You Should Not Use Debit Cards and Instead Keep Using Credit Cards http://j.mp/k5K0Sz
- [Why You Should Not Use Debit Cards and Instead Keep Using Credit Cards](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/why-you-should-not-use-debit-cards-and-instead-keep-using-credit-cards/) - May 21, 2011 Wells Fargo PO Box 6995 Portland, OR 97228-9995 REGARDING: FAILURE TO CREDIT FRAUDULENT DEBIT CARD CHARGES IN A TIMELY MANNER Dear Wells Fargo, Someone recently charged $100 at an Exxon station in Connecticut to my debit card while I was at sea on a cruise ship. My first clue that something was
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-30/) - Fri, 14:40: Spring is top recruiting month http://awe.sm/5Jyd4
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-29/) - Fri, 05:07: About to be on vacation and completely off the Internet. Back online May 19. Fri, 05:08: About to embark in Fort Lauderdale headed to Vancouver. Back on the Internet May 19. #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-28/) - Fri, 17:58: 7 cop cars zipping @Castro/Liberty. 1 suspect cuffed on Liberty. More cops arriving. #sf #SFPD Fri, 18:10: RT @Ozdachs: 7 cop cars zipped by @Castro/Liberty. 1 suspect cuffed on Liberty. #sf #SFPD #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-27/) - Fri, 07:26: Bank of America is sending out notices to its credit card holders about the new penalty rate of 29.99%. Wow! http://yfrog.com/h4gfptjj Fri, 09:06: Apple, Google Send Cellphone Location - WSJ They don't need to know where I am until I say it's okay for my purposes! http://awe.sm/5ISY2
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-26/) - Fri, 09:27: Your 2010 Federal Taxpayer Receipt -- Type in the dollars you've paid and see where they're going. http://awe.sm/5IBdy
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-25/) - Fri, 16:23: RT @BorowitzReport: The anarchy and nihilism of the punk rockers never died. It's just that now they're called Republicans.
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-24/) - Sat, 11:28: After Go Daddy's CEO's posted graphic video of his killing an elephant I'm recommending that clients switch away. http://bit.ly/f4BUOW
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-23/) - Fri, 11:37: MARK! It's rained 21.27" at our house since 7/1/10. That's what we normally get thru June 30th. We're 3.06 " > a normal season to date.
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-22/) - Thu, 09:03: RT @Ozdachs_Biz: Here's a bribe that we can accept. Donate $100 + to Red Cross Japanese relief and get 500 United miles http://bit.ly/gv006X
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-21/) - Wed, 07:03: RT @BorowitzReport: I thought Gaddafi came off as a slightly more controlled Glenn Beck.
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-20/) - Tue, 06:42: RT @BorowitzReport: When Gov. Walker accuses Obama of instigating protests, he sounds almost exactly like Ahmadinejad. #Wisconsin
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-19/) - Thu, 06:44: Weird hearing helicopter overhead apparently searching for Castro fire arsonist. 3 fires in area along Market St. corridor. Thu, 11:42: Clybourne Park http://j.mp/hapOc9
- [Clybourne Park](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/clybourne-park/) - San Francisco, CA at the American Conservatory TheaterClybourne Park by Bruce Norris My take-away from this flawed production of a mediocre play is that the raving 5-star applause at SF Gate reveals that reviewer Robert Hurwitt should get out of town more often, especially to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ashland, to relearn how quality performances are
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-18/) - Wed, 08:02: An Open Letter to the Goddess of the Non-Existent Global Warming http://j.mp/giTwRg
- [An Open Letter to the Goddess of the Non-Existent Global Warming](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/an-open-letter-to-the-goddess-of-the-non-existent-global-warming/) - Dear Goddess: Thank you for this 70-degree January weather. The extended streak of bright, sunny days has been wonderful, especially since we received so much rain earlier in the year that we're still above normal in our reservoirs.But, could please tell me if I should now start watering the roses and flower beds as if
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-17/) - Sun, 19:25: Happy Holidays! http://j.mp/hY1K7P
- [Happy Holidays!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/happy-holidays/) - This morning we finished our Christmas celebration by opening the holiday cards that we've received since the beginning of December. It's our tradition. Rather than ripping open and hurriedly reading the messages each evening in the hectic pre-Christmas days, we save up the cards and holiday letters. At 12th Night (or, this year, 14th Brunch) we
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-16/) - Sat, 21:06: RT@ Matthew Whalen: Sarah Palin removed this graphic from her web site today. http://yfrog.com/gz1ziptj Sat, 21:42: RT @BarackObama: Speaking about today's tragedy in Arizona. Watch live at http://wh.gov/live.
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-15/) - Sun, 16:21: The King's Speech http://j.mp/eBglHD
- [The King's Speech](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-kings-speech/) - San Francisco, CA Theatrical Movie We didn't see this one coming. From reading reviews I expected the story to be uplifting, a triumph-over-adversity saga suitable for New Year's Day viewing with friends. I had also heard that the acting was excellent. Although I am hopeless about knowing which screen star is which, friends nodded approvingly
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-14/) - Mon, 16:08: RT @BorowitzReport: Massive Goldman Bonuses 'Totally Deserved,' Says Satan
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-13/) - Sun, 15:06: RT @snopes: Cleaning for a Reason offers free cleaning services to women undergoing treatment for cancer. SF is covered http://bit.ly/fSBRrC
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-12/) - Fri, 19:49: Senator Sanders is filibustering the tax cut sell out. Call your Senators to have them support him! Contact info at http://www.senate.gov/ Fri, 20:05: Support Bernie Sanders filibuster. Boxer: (202) 224-3553. Feinstein: (202) 224-3841 #filibuster Fri, 23:52: RT @BorowitzReport: Uh-oh: Bernie Sanders just started reading the script from Avatar.
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-11/) - Tue, 21:10: To the President on the Occasion of His Caving on Tax Cuts for the Rich http://j.mp/h7SNGE
- [To the President on the Occasion of His Caving on Tax Cuts for the Rich](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/to-the-president-on-the-occasion-of-his-caving-on-tax-cuts-for-the-rich/) - Dear Mr. President: I am so disappointed at the lack of passion and commitment to what you campaigned for. Who would have thought that a black Chicago politician had the political skills of a doormat? Mr. President, you are being a wuss. Unfortunately your poor negotiating skills will hurt the country, grow our debt, and
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-10/) - Fri, 17:54: RT @BorowitzReport: Karzai to Afghan Government: "Obama's Coming, Look Busy"
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-9/) - Sat, 16:43: Ringside in Stockton for 9:30 show. Sat, 18:00: Winners Bitch! 1 point. #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-8/) - Fri, 20:59: Another day, another dog show: Napa. #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-7/) - Mon, 18:45: RT @ShakespeareIs: Amazing production premiered @OSFAshland RT @nytimestheater Kurosawa’s Feudal Japan, Now Onstage http://nyti.ms/9qzrhY
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-6/) - Tue, 17:18: Downtown ready to find spot to watch Giants' parade. Streets lined. Traffic stopped. Fun! #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-5/) - Mon, 15:29: Enter your address and ZIP code, and find out where to vote. Vote for what you know about - skip what you don't! http://bit.ly/9uqoKt
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-4/) - Sun, 23:51: I'm hoping this trek to watch the Giants is the last for 2010. #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-3/) - Sat, 17:29: Best of Winners. 4-point Major for Sequel!! #fb
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets-2/) - Thu, 17:26: At the Skyline Dog Fanciers show in Pleasanton. Our turn is about 30 minutes away. http://plixi.com/p/52200852
- [My tweets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-tweets/) - Thu, 20:35: If You Want Prop 8 Overturned, Register to Vote by Monday (October 18) and then Vote! http://j.mp/aZvtKH
- [If You Want Prop 8 Overturned, Register to Vote by Monday (October 18) and then Vote!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/if-you-want-prop-8-overturned-register-to-vote-by-monday-october-18-and-then-vote/) - I was blindsided by the obvious in a news report this morning. The result of the November election will likely determine the fate of marriage equality in California. The Federal suit to overturn Proposition 8 involved the Governor and Attorney General as the public officials who have to defend constitutionality of Prop 8. The Federal
- [Flowers for Array](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/flowers-for-array/) - Thank you for the messages of support and love. We will miss Array forever, and the memories we have of her are fantastic. She was born on our kitchen floor, and died in the sun in her backyard. We were so glad to be able to hold her one last time, sit with her, and
- [Ozdachs Elphaba of Oz ML](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ozdachs-elphaba-of-oz-ml/) - "Array" August 11, 1995 - August 21, 2010 Died in the sun in the backyard with Geoff and Galen stroking her. Thanks to Tony for caring for her these last days and to Dr. Chase for helping her into and out of the world.
- [Vonda Shepard](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/vonda-shepard/) - San Francisco, CA at the Rrazz RoomVonda Shepard It's the voice. Powerful, melodic, energetic, expressive, varied, beautiful. Did I mention powerful? Vonda and two perfect accompanists wowed a packed Rrazz Room last night in the final of her two appearances in the 175-seat house. There is just something about how she sounds that works whether
- [Showing Up at the Top of Google Results](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/showing-up-at-the-top-of-google-results/) - Just posted on my business blog tips to show up high in Google results. If you have a web site and you want more traffic, these steps will help.
- [Sam Harris](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sam-harris/) - San Francisco, CA at the Rrazz RoomSam Harris There was nothing about hearing Sam Harris sing at the Rrazz Room that called out to me. He's the big winner of Star Search from 1984 -- a fact I neither knew or cared about. He's known for having a big Broadway voice which doesn't do much for
- [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalCat on a Hot Tin Roof written by Tennessee Williams Oregon Shakespeare Festival at its best strips Classic Plays of their Greatness, and allows the actors on stage to tell a simple story unburdened by the responsibility to live up to the Reputation of the Work of Art. Their
- [Ruined](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ruined/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalRuined written by Lynn Nottage This horror story opens with the audience being dropped into the middle of the ongoing uncivil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mama Nadi (Kimberly Scott) is the wheeling, dealing savior madame and bar owner who, in the opening scene, is convinced
- [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/pride-and-prejudice/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austin adapted by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan I saw Pride and Prejudice at its opening several months ago, and I have been struggling to write about it ever since. It's not that the production was so good or so bad that words fail
- [Signs of Spring](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/signs-of-spring/)
- [Sequel Loves Spring](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sequel-loves-spring/)
- [What's Wrong with this Picture?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/) - ... let me count the ways. Sign in the Market Street Safeway, March 19, 2010.
- [Well](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/well/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalWell written by Lisa Kron It's 105 minutes of "Did You Get It?"-sledgehammer-over-the-audience's-head time as Well crawls its way to an unsatisfying conclusion. Stand-up comedian Lisa Kron wrote this sketch play that is repeatedly not about her relationship with her mother. Not about her mother who is lounging prominently
- [Hamlet](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/hamlet/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalHamlet written by William Shakespeare directed by Bill Rauch Dan Donohue's Hamlet is so strong, so conversational, so underplayed, so accessible that every moment of the play belongs to him. In some productions, Hamlet shows up on stage as a wandering soul with a mouth full of pretty words.
- [Check out uuworld.org : uu dads adopt five at-risk children](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/check-out-uuworld-org-uu-dads-adopt-five-at-risk-children/) - Title: uuworld.org : uu dads adopt five at-risk children Link: http://gotaf.socialtwist.com/redirect?l=-2610893280463739711
- [Sleazy Business Practice #1,523,047 -- XM Radio](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sleazy-business-practice-1523047-xm-radio/) - As I was about to renew an satellite radio subscription, I went through the list of fees and found the prices unchanged. But, as I click through to checkout there's a new line: U.S. Music Royalty Fee $21.79. Huh? I cannot buy the satellite radio subscription without this "fee". So, how do they get
- [A Co-Religionist in the News](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-co-religionist-in-the-news/) - I just found out that the 10-year-old boy in Arkansas who won't recite the Pledge of Allegiance until gay people are treated equally is a Unitarian Universalist. More Information.
- [Day 250 - Comfy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-250-comfy/)
- [Day 249 - Family Photo at 1 Year of Age](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-249-family-photo-at-1-year-of-age/) - Taken at the Stockton Match where Sequel was #1 in the adult Hound Group.
- [Day 248 - Cold Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-248-cold-dog/)
- [Dodged the MUNI Bullet](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dodged-the-muni-bullet/) - The MUNI service reductions set for next month have spared the lines I use, according to the MUNI change details posted online. Whew! I hope y'all are as fortunate in these times of budget cuts.
- [Day 247 - Chicken Hound](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-247-chicken-hound/)
- [Day 246 - Brick Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-246-brick-dog/)
- [Day 245 - Fall Sun Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-245-fall-sun-dog/)
- [Day 244 - Backyard Buddies](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-244-backyard-buddies/)
- [Day 243 - Park Playmate](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-243-park-playmate/)
- [Day 242 - Chewy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-242-chewy/)
- [Day 240 Reds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-240-reds/)
- [Day 237 - A Red Among Blacks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-237-a-red-among-blacks/)
- [Day 236 - Reserve Bitch](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-236-reserve-bitch/)
- [Day 235 -- Sequel's First Show](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-235-sequels-first-show/)
- [Day 230 - Squeezing the Dachshund](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-230-squeezing-the-dachshund/)
- [Day 229 -- Braving the Grass](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-229-braving-the-grass/)
- [Day 237 - Molding a Show Girl](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-237-molding-a-show-girl/) - Sequel was molded into a show girl by her breeder one week before her first show. More photos of Day - 7.
- [Day 236 - They Do not Feed Me](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-236-they-do-not-feed-me/)
- [Day 235 - Practicing the  Reproachful Look](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-235-practicing-the-reproachful-look/)
- [Day 234 - Why am I Down on the Floor?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-234-why-am-i-down-on-the-floor/)
- [Dad 233 - Growing Coat in the Sun](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dad-233-growing-coat-in-the-sun/)
- [Day 232 - Backyard Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-232-backyard-dog/)
- [Day 231 - Interloper! You're Between Me and My Daddy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-231-interloper-youre-between-me-and-my-daddy/)
- [Day 230 - Gardening](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-230-gardening/)
- [Day 229 - New Work Station](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-229-new-work-station/)
- [Day 228 - Den Animal](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-228-den-animal/)
- [Day 227 - A Dachshund Suns](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-227-a-dachshund-suns/)
- [Day 226 - Trotting](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-226-trotting/)
- [The Flu and You + 7 Days](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-flu-and-you-7-days/) - Here's the responses so far to to the flu survey posted last week. http://bit.ly/3LdoEK . Or, take the survey yourself at http://bit.ly/3NO9j.
- [Non-Scary Estate Planning for all Families](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/non-scary-estate-planning-for-all-families/) - I've finished up some tuning work for an attorney friend whose firm handles elder law issues including estate planning, probates, and conservatorships. I've known Julia for over a decade, and I know how careful and intelligent she is. She's worked with "traditional" families and those of us in untraditional families. If you've put off talking to an attorney
- [Day 225](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-225/)
- [Day 224 - She Still Has a BIG Tongue!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-224-she-still-has-a-big-tongue/)
- [Day 223- Make Me a Lap](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-223-make-me-a-lap/)
- [Day 221 - Sun Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-221-sun-dog/)
- [The Flu and You](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-flu-and-you/) - redozdachs's office is doing an informal survey to see if people's real-life plans are in sync with the experts are telling us were supposed to do for the flu. Got a second? Give them your answers on their one-page, quick, anonymous flu survey!
- [Thre's a Rep for That](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/thres-a-rep-for-that/)
- [Day 220 - A Bitch in Heat](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-220-a-bitch-in-heat/)
- [Day 218](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-218/)
- [Day 217 - What Do You Mean by "Under Foot"?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-217-what-do-you-mean-by-under-foot/)
- [Day 216 - Last Warmish Day of Fall?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-216-last-warmish-day-of-fall/)
- [Day 215 - The Eyes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-215-the-eyes/)
- [Day 213 - Anniversary Play Session](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-213-anniversary-play-session/)
- [Happy 19th Anniversary, Geoff](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/happy-19th-anniversary-geoff/) - Here's to every year... and to those in our future!
- [Day 212 - Everything is a Play Toy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-212-everything-is-a-play-toy/)
- [Day 210 -- Welcome!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-210-welcome/)
- [Day 209 -- Happy Visitor](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-209-happy-visitor/) - While visiting Sequel's birth family we posed the girls for a photo shoot in tribute of Sequel's grandfather Tommy, more formally known as BISS Ch. Wagsmore's Captivating ML ROMX. See the photos of the bitches.
- [Day 208- The Bearded Dachshund](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-208-the-bearded-dachshund/)
- [Day 207 - Recreational Paw Chewing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-207-recreational-paw-chewing/)
- [Day 203 - The Flying Dachshund](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-203-the-flying-dachshund/)
- [Day 202 - Pick Me Up!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-202-pick-me-up/)
- [Day 200 - Weeding on the Bricks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-200-weeding-on-the-bricks/)
- [Day 199 - Captured Dachshunds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-199-captured-dachshunds/)
- [Day 198 - The Trademark Look](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-198-the-trademark-look/)
- [Ashland Fire](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ashland-fire/) - Mary Pat and Hollis own an apartment building in/on the edge of the mandatory evacuation zone. Homes are burning within blocks of their place.Fast-moving blaze erupts in south Ashland | DailyTidings.comPosted using ShareThis
- [Day 197 - I am Warm. I am Comfortable!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-197-i-am-warm-i-am-comfortable/)
- [Stop It! Health Care Reform is Not About Immigration Reform](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/stop-it-health-care-reform-is-not-about-immigration-reform/) - Democrats from the President on down are lining up to reassure the country that any health care reform will not include help for illegal aliens Congratulations, illegal aliens. You’ve replaced homosexuals as the powerless group that it’s okay to trash. Even among self-described liberals. Even among racial minorities and socially powerless groups. Personally I am intensely
- [Day 196 - Father-Daughter Garden Party](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-196-father-daughter-garden-party/)
- [Day 195 - This is Sequel Sharing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-195-this-is-sequel-sharing/)
- [Loonie Valley Goes National](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/loonie-valley-goes-national/) - Since we moved into our house 18 years ago there's been a decrepit real estate office two blocks away on 24th Street. Its window has hosted handmade signs and mid-Century artifacts that made it clear that the real estate agent owner thought right-wing Conservatism was the only true way to be a patriot. His written
- [Day 192](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-192/)
- [Day 191](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-191/)
- [Day 190 - Lined Up](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-190-lined-up/)
- [Day 189 - Dachshund 0 Ring](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-189-dachshund-0-ring/)
- [Day 188 - Whose Toy?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-188-whose-toy/)
- [Day 187 - Top Chef](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-187-top-chef/)
- [The Party of No](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-party-of-no/) - Illustration by Matt Wuerker from a Politico.com article that appeals to my biases.
- [Day 184 - Toys!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-184-toys/)
- [Day 183 - Puppy Sock Heaven](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-183-puppy-sock-heaven/)
- [Day 181 - Snarl](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-181-snarl/)
- [Day 179 - Sun Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-179-sun-dog/)
- [Day 176](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-176/)
- [Day 175 - Bed Dog in Training](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-175-bed-dog-in-training/)
- [Day 174 - Hot Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-174-hot-dog/) - Sequel at the back door baking in the 11 am heat yesterday.
- [Day 173 - Thinking Long](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-173-thinking-long/)
- [Day 171 - Sun Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-171-sun-day/)
- [Can't Be All Four](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cant-be-all-four/) - Thanks to abqdan for posting this originally. The image is available on t-shirts, btw.
- [Edward Moore Kennedy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/edward-moore-kennedy/) - I slid the flag half-way down its pole before I put it on display this morning. A small gesture, but I needed to do it. Ted's clarion calls for compassionate public policy have stirred me most of my life. His clear rhetoric slashed through the technical/political mumbling on vitally important issues from the Vietnam War
- [Day 170 - Imprisoned](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-170-imprisoned/)
- [Day 169 - Reds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-169-reds/)
- [Barney Frank Insults Your Home's Furniture](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/barney-frank-insults-your-homes-furniture/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8A new low in the debate on health care. [Go, Barney!]
- [The Music Man](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-music-man/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalMusic Man Book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Wilson Story by Meredith Wilson and Frank Lacey I keep saying that I don't like musicals. When I walked out of The Music Man grinning, humming, and full of "do you remember when Harold Hill..." comments, I thought I was on an
- [Paradise Lost](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/paradise-lost/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalParadise Lost by Clifford Odets Oh, damn! Another performance ranking Production: Good, Play: Awful. I was happily anticipating this Depression Era play directed by the same Libby Appel who resurrected A View from the Bridge and provided an important and satisfying show last year. That Arthur Miller "period piece" was heartbreakingly current. Unhappily,
- [Don Quixote](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/don-quixote/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalDon Quixote by Miguel Cervantes Saavedra Word Premiere adaption by Octavio Solis The quest of our aging, would-be knight hero failed to pass a friend's "So what?" test, but even she enjoyed reasonably much the journey to nowhere. Her reaction sums up the night. This bright, broad evening was
- [Henry VIII](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/henry-viii/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalHenry VIII by William Shakespeare A better title of this production of the seldom-produced Henry VIII would be The Vilma and Tony Show. The performances of Vilma Silva (Queen Katherine) and Anthony Heald (Cardinal Wolsey) alone are enough to make this an extremely satisfying evening of theater. This play
- [Religious Principles and Health Care](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/religious-principles-and-health-care/) - The national voice of my church is weighing in on on the heated health care hatred being spewed against any attempt to reform the current failed delivery system. I agree: "The first religious principle at stake is compassion. We must be a strong, persistent voice that reminds our nation and our leaders that compassion is
- [Day 154-165 -- Sequel Goes to Camp](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-154-165-sequel-goes-to-camp/) - Sequel was picked up by the Dachshund Taxi and taken to summer grooming camp where she'll stay while we're in Ashland. She will get to play with her sisters and learn how to be a show girl. We'll miss her, and so will Vector!
- [Day 153 - Packing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-153-packing/) - Vector and Sequel help their fathers pack for the human's trip to Ashland.
- [Potlucks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/potlucks/) - Potlucks combine the worst of cooking for yourself and the anxiety of Christmas. You shop, cook, and clean just like every day. All the work is there. Then you bring your offering to the table and watch to see if it's the last chosen (just like you were in pick-up baseball games) or if you're
- [Day 152 - That is Close Enough!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-152-that-is-close-enough/)
- [Plugging a Gay Business](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/plugging-a-gay-business/) - I met the owner of San Francisco's Regency Limousine Service at a GGBA networking event. This economy is giving him the roughest time of his 25 years in business. He does corporate limo service, airport pick-ups, and tours through San Francisco, the wine country, and other Bay Area tourist places. All of these activities are
- [Day 151 - Mine! Mine! Mine!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-151-mine-mine-mine/)
- [Day 150](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-150/)
- [San Francisco Traffic Alert](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/san-francisco-traffic-alert/) - redozdachs's office management put out this traffic alert this morning: Today, Wednesday, August 5: Television Commercial Filming T-Mobile is shooting a television commercial today above and around the city. Approximately 100 skydivers will jump from a plane and land in four separate spots in San Francisco. This will occur between noon and 1:30 pm depending
- [Day 148 - The Stockholm Syndrome in Dachshunds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-148-the-stockholm-syndrome-in-dachshunds/)
- [Day 147 - Keeping an Ear Open](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-147-keeping-an-ear-open/)
- [Day 146 - Father and Daughter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-146-father-and-daughter/)
- [Day 145 - Sisters](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-145-sisters/) - Sequel and her breeder, Ellen Shearer, at the Dachshund Specialty in Dixon, CA
- [Day 143 - Why Getting Dressed Takes So Much Time](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-143-why-getting-dressed-takes-so-much-time/)
- [Day 142 - Chewy Treats are Best](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-142-chewy-treats-are-best/)
- [Day 141 - Chased by the Vector](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-141-chased-by-the-vector/)
- [Day 140 - Give a Dog Two Bones](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-140-give-a-dog-two-bones/)
- [Day 139](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-139/)
- [Day 138](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-138/)
- [Day 135 - Choices](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-135-choices/)
- [Galen 40 Years Ago Tonight](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/galen-40-years-ago-tonight/) - Mother took this photograph 40 years ago as the first man announced he was walking on the moon. Kris Beagle had come over, and we'd put the table lamp on the floor to reduce the glare on the TV set as we listened to the live broadcast. Mother could never center photographs, but at least
- [Day 133 - What Awkward Position?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-133-what-awkward-position/)
- [Day 132 - Hold Me Tight](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-132-hold-me-tight/)
- [Business Blogging](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/business-blogging/) - Another client talked to me this week about adding a blog to their site. Most clients struggle to come up with enough information for a five-page website. It can take weeks for them to write a few paragraphs about their business -- in fact, most often I interview them and then write-up the pages for
- [Day 131 - On the Bricks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-131-on-the-bricks/)
- [Day 130 - Greeting the Back Door Company](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-130-greeting-the-back-door-company/)
- [The Right Wing is Framing the Discussion Again](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-right-wing-is-framing-the-discussion-again/) - So long as the country talks in the terms of self reliance and independence, we're not going to see substantive change in health care, education, or the scope of the community compact. The allure of free men (sic) creating a personal paradise from their own intelligence and sweat is too powerful to overcome with mere
- [Day 128 - Slow-Paced Keep Away](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-128-slow-paced-keep-away/)
- [215 Books for Theatre Rhino](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/215-books-for-theatre-rhino/) - Who knew that we had 215 books piled up in the garage ready to go to Community Thrift? Our house and its bookcases and shelves are all filled, so we have had to cull books we're not likely to enjoy again. Today I brought the collection that has been languishing on the floor of our
- [Day 127 - Splendor on the Bricks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-127-splendor-on-the-bricks/)
- [Day 126 - Walking the Daddy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-126-walking-the-daddy/)
- [Day 125 - Sharing Violation](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-125-sharing-violation/)
- [Day 124 - Daddy's Girl](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-124-daddys-girl/)
- [Day 123 - New Toy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-123-new-toy/)
- [Day 122 - Fan of Green](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-122-fan-of-green/)
- [Day 120 - Sticks, No Stones](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-120-sticks-no-stones/)
- [Who Moved My Cheese.... errr...  Trash?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/who-moved-my-cheese-errr-trash/) - This morning I went out to deposit last-minute bags into the trash bin before the weekly pick up. When I opened the black trash bin cover, I discovered the can was almost empty. Just a few bags of dog stuff were inside. The one white plastic bag full of un-recyclable crud that was in the bin last night when I
- [Day 119 - Reds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-119-reds/)
- [Day 118 - Latchkey Child](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-118-latchkey-child/)
- [Day 117 - Uphill Both Ways](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-117-uphill-both-ways/)
- [Day 115 - Everything is a Chew Toy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-115-everything-is-a-chew-toy/)
- [Day 114 - Nobody's Doormat](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-114-nobodys-doormat/)
- [Day 113 - Call of the Wild](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-113-call-of-the-wild/)
- [Day 111 - Fresh Salad](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-111-fresh-salad/)
- [Not a Genuine Black Man](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/not-a-genuine-black-man/) - San Francisco at Studio 250 at the Off-Market Theaters 965 Mission Street 800-838-3006 Tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets More information and performance dates at www.briancopeland.com
- [Day 110 - Yawn!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-110-yawn/)
- [Day 109 - Comfortable in the Yard](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-109-comfortable-in-the-yard/)
- [Day 108](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-108/)
- [Contrarian News Judgment](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/contrarian-news-judgment/) - Would it be wrong to suggest that Michael's death is not likely to be an event important in our lives? Iran is in insurrection. Obama is fighting seemingly everyone trying to get meaningful health care reform into a system plagued by nay-sayers. California is about to stop helping very poor people survive because its politicians
- [Free the MUNI Data](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/free-the-muni-data/) - My favorite iPhone application has been Routesy (see http://www.routesy.com/ ). The app figured out where I was, and would tell me arrival times for the MUNI routes I choose. The information was presented in an incredibly useful and clear way. The Routesy app was even featured in the iTunes store as a staff favorite.Suddenly, Routesy
- [Day 107 - Dental Hygiene](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-107-dental-hygiene/)
- [Day 106 - Lumps of Fur](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-106-lumps-of-fur/)
- [Day 105 - Too Tired to Chew](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-105-too-tired-to-chew/) - ... and too stubborn to let go.
- [Day-104 - Quick-Shot](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-104-quick-shot/)
- [Day 102 - Untitled. Really!!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-102-untitled-really/)
- [Day 103](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-103/)
- [Day 101 - First Solo Kill](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-101-first-solo-kill/) - Sequel is reveling in her first solo kill. She's helped the other dogs worry the toys to death, but today, this was all her doing. Such a mighty hunter! Such a cute girl!
- [Day 100 -- Kibble Hunting](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-100-kibble-hunting/)
- [CNN is Dead.  Long Live Twitter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cnn-is-dead-long-live-twitter/) - A major regional power with proto-nuclear bomb capacity is in turmoil. Huge numbers of Iranians are rioting in the capitol. Police are repressing the demonstrations. People have died. As I was going to bed last night I noticed that #iranelection was the top topic on Twitter, and I started to read some posts. Among the messages
- [Day 99 -- Official Greeter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-99-official-greeter/) - Sequel with visitors from Texas.
- [Day 98 - Watch!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-98-watch/) - This is from Sequel's grooming session in Martinez. (More Pictures)
- [Day 97 - Focused On Play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-97-focused-on-play/)
- [Day 96  - The Focused Pack](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-96-the-focused-pack/)
- [Day 95 - Hard at Work](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-95-hard-at-work/)
- [Day 94 - Nurse Sequel](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-94-nurse-sequel/) - Sequel has ceded center stage to our surgery victim. Of course, she knew she could make Array feel better by jumping on her back.
- [Knowing Your Audience](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/knowing-your-audience/) - Snapped by a friend at the entrance of Montgomery BART in SF:
- [Day 92 - 1 is Unlike the Others](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-92-1-is-unlike-the-others/) - Sequel showcases her snarling skills.
- [Day 91 - "Sharing" Toys](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-91-sharing-toys/)
- [Day 90 -- On the 90th Day She Rested](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-90-on-the-90th-day-she-rested/)
- [Day 89 - Adult Kibble,  Yum!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-89-adult-kibble-yum/) - Sequel showing her preference for the kibble formulated for our "senior" dogs.
- [Day 88 - It's "ROYAL Munchkin" to You](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-88-its-royal-munchkin-to-you/) - Sequel's AKC Name is Lilliput's Royal Munchkin of Wagsmore.
- [Day 87 - Domestic Partners](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-87-domestic-partners/)
- [Day 86 - Working Out with Weights](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-86-working-out-with-weights/)
- [Day 85 - Dachshunds in the Workplace](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-85-dachshunds-in-the-workplace/)
- [Day 84 - Almost Escaped](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-84-almost-escaped/)
- [Day 83 - 350 for 40 Minutes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-83-350-for-40-minutes/)
- [Day 82 - Packmates](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-82-packmates/) - The pack is restored after our trip to Ashland. Here Sequel and Array celebrate.
- [The Day of Decision](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-day-of-decision/) - I will be helping with my church's communications today. Posting updates to Twitter, and Facebook. I will have a statement from the minister once the rulings are announced. May this be a good day for equality... or the birth of a final push to achieve marriage equality for us all.
- [Accused!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/accused/) - The owner of the Ashland Bed and Breakfast we stay at told Geoff today that she thought we were nice and never complained. Really! The nerve!! I cannot every recall being tagged as nice and polite! I have legions of friends and acquaintances who know better. I whine, I complain. I think of myself as competently
- [Death and the King's Horseman](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/death-and-the-kings-horseman/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka The rhythms, the timing, and method of communication in Death and the King's Horseman are not familiar or comfortable for a typical American play-goer. But, if you let yourself be absorbed into the opening long, chatty, riddling, market scene -- if you
- [Equivocation](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/equivocation/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalI hate being slapped across the face with the dead mackerel of "did you get it" lines. Equivocation is blatant in making sure you don't miss the modern importance of its 16th Century goings on. Only a poster of George Bush could have made its scenes and comments on torture and tyrannical government
- [Prop 8](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/prop-8/) - Prop 8 decision to be announced Tuesday @ 10
- [Day 76 - Essence of Chicken](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-76-essence-of-chicken/)
- [Day 75 - Guard Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-75-guard-dog/) - This is Sequel's first public appearance as a guard dog. She's in the front of the hide-a-pet protecting Vector. He's the black in the back. He buried himself for a nice secure nap.
- [Day 74 - Take Your Girl to Work Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-74-take-your-girl-to-work-day/)
- [NO Supreme Court Decision Tomorrow](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/no-supreme-court-decision-tomorrow/) - Forthcoming Opinion Filings May 20 2009 -- No opinions were announced for filing on Thursday, May 21, 2009. There is no pending notice of forthcoming opinion filings. When opinions are expected to file, notices are generally posted the day before. Opinions are normally filed Mondays and Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. from http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/#forthcoming The
- [Day 73 - Yum](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-73-yum/)
- [Just Saying  No](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/just-saying-no/) - no, NO, No, No, No, no. I am concerned about the state's fiscal future. I know that the Boy Who Cried Wolf ultimately had a point. But, damn it. I wouldn't hire a house cleaner who promised only to sweep dirt under the rug. So, "No" on 1 A-E. In addition, class size reduction requires
- [Day 72 - Domestic Tranquility](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-72-domestic-tranquility/)
- [Three on a Party](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/three-on-a-party/) - San Francisco, California Theatre Rhinoceros "Three on a Party" presented by Theatre Rhinoceros and Word for Word, Wednesday - Sunday through June 7th. On a lark we saw "Three on a Party" last night at Theatre Rhinoceros (16th Street and Mission). The performance is a staging of three short stories, one each by Gertrude Stein,
- [Day 71 - Red Dog in the Sun](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-71-red-dog-in-the-sun/) - The rest of the pack is either sprawled out on cool tile floors or languishing under a fan. It's 82 in the shade, according to the backyard thermometer.
- [Day 70 - My Mouth Hurts Just Watching](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-70-my-mouth-hurts-just-watching/)
- [Day 69 - Security](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-69-security/)
- [Day 68 - Petting the Running Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-68-petting-the-running-dog/)
- [Day 67 -- Serenity](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-67-serenity/)
- [Day 66 - Pensive Pup](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-66-pensive-pup/)
- [I am Voting No ...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-am-voting-no/) - I keep re-reading the ballot book to find a reason to vote for any of the propositions in next week's election. My search has not been successful. The fundamental imbalance between revenues and expenses is maintained if the any/all the propositions pass. The structural overspending/under-collecting will continue. Me, I see two issues that must be
- [Day 65 - Magic Carpet Ride](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-65-magic-carpet-ride/)
- [Day 64 - You Aren't Taking This from Me, Are You?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-64-you-arent-taking-this-from-me-are-you/)
- [Day 63 - Getting Close to Her Food Treat](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-63-getting-close-to-her-food-treat/)
- [Day 62 - Teething is a Bitch](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-62-teething-is-a-bitch/)
- [Day 61](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-61/)
- [Day 60 - Innocence](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-60-innocence/)
- [A Call to Action on Decision Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-call-to-action-on-decision-day/) - The California Supreme Court is about to issue its ruling on Prop 8. Equality proponents don't expect a good result and are preparing appropriate responses. This clip is from folks who organized civil disobedience after the passage of Prop 8 in November. Greg Stewart, Senior Minister of my church, the First Unitarian Universalist Society of
- [Day 59 - Bait Meets Teeth](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-59-bait-meets-teeth/)
- [Day 58 - A Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-58-a-day/)
- [Day 57 - Stacked!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-57-stacked/) - Caught up with the daily pictures from my time in the convalescent bed,too. (More blog pictures) (More Flickr pictures)
- [Day 56 - TV Watcher](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-56-tv-watcher/)
- [Day 55 - Dogs as Blankets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-55-dogs-as-blankets/)
- [Day 54 - Toy Decisions](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-54-toy-decisions/)
- [Day 53 - Bully, Bully](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-53-bully-bully/)
- [Day 52 - Facing the Ogre](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-52-facing-the-ogre/)
- [Day 51 - The Cook](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-51-the-cook/)
- [Day 50 - Meeting Hollis](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-50-meeting-hollis/)
- [Day 49 - Cleaning Up](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-49-cleaning-up/)
- [Day 48 - Getting Dressed](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-48-getting-dressed/)
- [Day 47 - Nurse and Dental Hygienist](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-47-nurse-and-dental-hygienist/)
- [Day 46 -- Sequel Plays Nurse](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-46-sequel-plays-nurse/)
- [Day 45 - Hot Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-45-hot-dog/) - This is how an SMART active puppy handles the 90-degree San Francisco heat wave.
- [Dawn in Noe Valley](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dawn-in-noe-valley/) - I think it's going to be a hot day. This was the back yard at 6:13. (more pictures)
- [Day 44 - Camouflage](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-44-camouflage/)
- [Day 43 - BBQ Belle](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-43-bbq-belle/) - Sequel was exposed to 7 visitors at once at today's BBQ. Weather in the 80's made this a perfect day to enjoy the back yard.
- [Day 42 - Bed Dog with a Daddy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-42-bed-dog-with-a-daddy/)
- [#amazonfail -- Should it Go Away?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/amazonfail-should-it-go-away/) - Amazon is really trying to put to bed the issue of its censorship-like de-ranking of GLBT books that hit the social media headlines last weekend. They discovered THE problem was an error made by a French employee over the holiday weekend. Now, they want to get on with their life. The revisionist historians are already
- [Day 41 - What You Can Chew You Can Sleep In](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-41-what-you-can-chew-you-can-sleep-in/) - Sequel decided today that she could sleep INside the hide-a-pet instead of on top.
- [Day 40 Supplemental - First Walk Run](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-40-supplemental-first-walk-run/) - Notice how nice and focused the non-moving sidewalk is.
- [Day 40 - Scratch Me!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-40-scratch-me/)
- [Day 39 - The Pack Celebrates the End of Tax Season](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-39-the-pack-celebrates-the-end-of-tax-season/)
- [Day 38 - Audio Needed](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-38-audio-needed/) - To fully appreciate the moment this photo was taken, you would need an audio track to hear the rapid teasing barks that Sequel was using to entice the older dogs to play. Ouch! My ears!
- [Amazon: I am not sure all the facts are out yet.](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/amazon-i-am-not-sure-all-the-facts-are-out-yet/) - I am not a conspiracy theory buff, in general. However, the lack of clarity in Amazon's response is bad. At the very least Amazon deserves the negative #amazonfail attention for their terrible PR response. Where are their lead executives explaining what happened? The confession press conference was s.o.p., because it works! I am not sure all
- [Day 37 - Down in the Weeds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-37-down-in-the-weeds/)
- [Amazon's Has Greased Up Its Sword... to Fall on It?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/amazons-has-greased-up-its-sword-to-fall-on-it/) - This message is more appropriate falling-on-sword in tone. Don't know who it's from, though. Should I? I haven't been online to see what I'm supposed to think. FWIT, here's the raw data (and please note the final tag line -- this is April 13th not 1st, right?): -----Original Message----- From: Amazon.com Customer Service [mailto:cust.service03@amazon.com] Sent:
- [A Concern About Amazon.Com](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-concern-about-amazon-com/) - Social media discovered this weekend that Amazon.com has de-ranked ALL gay-positive books such as Giovanni's Room while allowing anti-gay books to retain their rankings. Amazon's claim is that they are de-ranking all books with adult material, and their handling of gay-themed books is simply part of the automated process. However, Amazon's claim is thin given
- [Day 36 - Now Available: the Dachshund Pouch](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-36-now-available-the-dachshund-pouch/)
- [Day 35 - Nature Lover](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-35-nature-lover/)
- [Day 34 - Lump of Fur](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-34-lump-of-fur/)
- [Day 33 - Killing Mr. Skunk](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-33-killing-mr-skunk/)
- [Day 32 - Kibble: It's What for Breakfast](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-32-kibble-its-what-for-breakfast/)
- [Day 31 - Keeping Cozy on a Rainy Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-31-keeping-cozy-on-a-rainy-day/)
- [Day 30 - Mine!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-30-mine/)
- [Day 29 -- Showing Her Wagsmore Genes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-29-showing-her-wagsmore-genes/)
- [Day 28 - Dog Pile](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-28-dog-pile/)
- [Day 27 - Ready for Play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-27-ready-for-play/) - Sequel walks around with a ball in her mouth just in case an opportunity for play unexpectedly appears. Be Prepared!
- [Day 26 - Color Coordination](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-26-color-coordination/) - Sequel thought it was important to select the toy that would go with the flowers she was going to sleep by. The tones of yellow kind of clash, but her choices were limited.
- [Day 25 - Job Sharing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-25-job-sharing/)
- [Day 24 - Who's Your Daddy?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-24-whos-your-daddy/)
- [Day 23 - Bookends](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-23-bookends/)
- [Auf Wiedersehen, Rick: Exercising Our Ownership Responsibility](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/auf-wiedersehen-rick-exercising-our-ownership-responsibility/) - President George Bush pushed the government into taking ownership stakes in major portions of private corporations. Think banks, unclassifiable financial institutions, and auto companies. Bush saw the role of government as one of simply giving these private companies tons of taxpayer money. No controls. No strings. Just a mega-sized Christmas gift from Uncle. CEO's said "Thanks,"
- [Day 22 - Play Date with the Sisters](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-22-play-date-with-the-sisters/) - More pictures from today.
- [Day 21 - Sharing Guard Duty](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-21-sharing-guard-duty/) - Vector and Sequel were side by side this afternoon, surveying activity in the back yard.
- [Day 20 - Focused on Chewing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-20-focused-on-chewing/) - Some days focus shifts from even the cutest girl to the lust object of the pack: bully sticks.
- [Day 19 - Red Dogs Love the Bricks on Sunny Days](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-19-red-dogs-love-the-bricks-on-sunny-days/)
- [Day 18 - Ready for Work](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-18-ready-for-work/)
- [Day 17 - Squaredancing is a Yawn](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-17-squaredancing-is-a-yawn/) - Sequel visited the C3B squaredancing class during a break. She wasn't impressed.
- [Day 16 -- Showing the Kulik Genes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-16-showing-the-kulik-genes/) - Several years ago unposed photography caught Geoff and his mother with the same tongue-out-of-the-mouth expression. Here Array and Sequel show their membership in the Kulik clan.
- [Day 15 - I am Watching You](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-15-i-am-watching-you/)
- [Day 14 -- Fight!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-14-fight/) - Finally! It's taken 14 days, but this morning the alpha bitch, the grouch Array, decided that Sequel was worth snarling at, fighting with, and chasing. Oh yeah, there was some licking and sniffing, too.
- [Day 13 - The Ozdachs Pack](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-13-the-ozdachs-pack/)
- [Day 12 - Door Guard](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-12-door-guard/)
- [Syntax Workman Kulik Dog](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/syntax-workman-kulik-dog/) - Syntax Workman Kulik Dog January 10, 1992 - March 20, 2009 Syntax passed away in Geoffrey's arms this afternoon after a 12-hour illness. She was preceded in death by her long-time companion Audit who died just two months ago. The vet identified spleen tumors which have been growing for many months; after Audit left the
- [Syntax at 3:30](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/syntax-at-330/)
- [Syntax is Still Critical](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/syntax-is-still-critical/) - We've been at Syntax's side all day. We're recording vitals every 5 minutes. When she's awake she is in horrible pain. No more seizures, though. The only cause for her condition that will let her come home is an infection. No temp, but that's not conclusive. The plan: ulrasound. If tumors in body, stop. If
- [Very Sick Syntax](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/very-sick-syntax/) - Syntax, our 17 year old, went into seizures at 6 this morning. We took her to the emergency vet for Valium and now we're at her side at Her regular doctor's.
- [Day 11 - Perspectives](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-11-perspectives/)
- [I Want to Fire My Bad AIG Employees](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-want-to-fire-my-bad-aig-employees/) - As an 80% owner in AIG, I want to know why I haven't fired the scum that lost money and "earned" bonuses. The bonuses may have been owed because of [fraudulent] contracts, but did "we" also guarantee lifetime employment? I'm ready to toss out my under-performing employees. Today. HR, prepare the termination notices. And, I
- [Day 10 - First Venture into the Outback](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-10-first-venture-into-the-outback/)
- [State Republicans Turn Down  $2.5+  Billion in Federal Money for the Unemployed](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/state-republicans-turn-down-2-5-billion-in-federal-money-for-the-unemployed/) - Yesterday the Obstructionist Party of a Vengeful God kept California from accepting over $2.5 Billion in Federal stimulus money which would have extended unemployment benefits for 20 weeks. California's unemployment rate is 10.1%. The vote in the California Assembly was one vote short of the super-majority needed to accept the money. All Democrats and 2
- [Day 9 - In Someone's Arms](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-9-in-someones-arms/)
- [Pack Members](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/pack-members/) - Sequel (right) cuddles up with Syntax on the the Queen-size hide-a-pet to make her full membership in the Ozdachs pack official.
- [A Cheap Shot You Can Believe In](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-cheap-shot-you-can-believe-in/)
- [It's Time to Fire the AIG Board](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/its-time-to-fire-the-aig-board/) - It's time for the government to use its ownership muscle to fire the Board of AIG. These folks ran the company into the ground. They begged for taxpayer money. Then they agreed to give multiple millions of dollars in bonus money to their employees (who would be out of a job completely if the taxpayers
- [Day 7 - Where Did That Come From?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-7-where-did-that-come-from/)
- [Day 6 - Posed for Play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-6-posed-for-play/)
- [Day 5 - Thumbs Up](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-5-thumbs-up/)
- [The Sequel](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-sequel/) - Thanks to woofpup, New Dog has a real name: Sequel. It is melodic, friendly, and has just the right geek overtones. Stately, with a whiff of nerd. "Sequel" will be what she's called around the house. In the show ring, if she decides to conform to the breed standard, she'll be known as Lilliput's Royal
- [Day 3 - Is there anything to chew?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-3-is-there-anything-to-chew/)
- [Day 2 - Toys on the bricks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/day-2-toys-on-the-bricks/)
- [Help Pick the Name of the Newest Ozdachs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/help-pick-the-name-of-the-newest-ozdachs/)
- [News from the Pack](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/news-from-the-pack/) - redozdachs and I were interviewed by a very skeptical 15-week old this afternoon. She's still skeptical. So are Syntax, Vector, and Array. But, she is part of the pack.
- [Going to the Political Barricades for the Change We Need](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/going-to-the-political-barricades-for-the-change-we-need/) - I spent much of Friday grinning. My grin started at the gym when I picked up the Wall Street Journal to read on the stair stepper. I had heard Thursday that President Obama had release his budget plan, but details -- even the broad stokes -- hadn't reached my consciousness. But, the WSJ laid it
- [From FiveThirtyEight.com](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/from-fivethirtyeight-com/) - "Bobby Jindal caught at least one break this week: Saturday Night Live was in reruns."
- [Macbeth](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/macbeth/) - Ashland, Oregon opening night at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Macbeth by William Shakespeare We were so looking forward to seeing the Oregon Shakespeare Festival redeem themselves after their 2002 butchery where they "adapted" Macbeth to make Lady Macbeth warm and cuddly and misunderstood. We went home thoroughly disappointed. Last night's production left Shakespeare's words intact but
- [Dead Man's Cell Phone](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dead-mans-cell-phone/) - Ashland, Oregon opening performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl A fun, snappy script built around a clever premise makes this theater adventure a satisfying romp. The play is pure entertainment as far as I can figure out. Its send-up of our need for constant communication makes me worry that
- [Shooting Fish in the Barrel... Marketing Style](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/shooting-fish-in-the-barrel-marketing-style/) - Of all my web design/Internet marketing clients, redozdachs's San Francisco CPA firm gets the most spam mail and phone calls to the webmaster from firms offering to help them become #1 in Google search results. It's disheartening, because when I've asked the salespeople on the phone how they found us, they mumble and say something
- [A Shot in the Dark](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-shot-in-the-dark/) - One of the people in my church community was shot Friday night. He's in SF General with wounds to his neck and shoulder. He and the others injured "appeared to be innocent bystanders caught up in a gang retaliation shooting," according to SF Gate's interview with a police officer. I am not friends with the
- [A 5-Star Night at a 3-Star Restaurant](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-5-star-night-at-a-3-star-restaurant/) - In reverse MasterCard commercial, but personal importance, order:A two-and-one-half-hour dinner with redozdachs to celebrate his birthday: Priceless. Dinner at Epic Roasthouse: Decidedly equipped with a price.A wonderful evening doesn't need a perfect restaurant! My comments on Epic Roasthouse.
- [A Good Way to Start a Good Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-good-way-to-start-a-good-day/) - I got up an hour early this morning to meet up with folks from church to prepare breakfast for 90. The picture is of some of the volunteers on the serving line -- working in the shelter is a tradition for many families, and some of the kids have done it all their lives. For me,
- [My Contribution to CBS News](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-contribution-to-cbs-news/) - At 6, 6:30, and 7 the national CBS radio news breathlessly talked about the ongoing tragic fires in southeast Australia. Their announcer talked about the inferno near Melbourne and throughout the province of Victoria. Finally, I couldn't take it any more and called the KCBS news tip line. Australia has states and territories. No provinces.
- [Playing with Puppies](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/playing-with-puppies/) - Last weekend redozdachs and I visited the home of the woman who bred Syntax (our healthy 17 year old) and Audit (who died last month at 16 years. Ellen, the breeder, wanted to see Syntax who is her oldest surviving offspring. Syntax had a big day for an old girl, but maintained her composure in
- [In the Land of The Blind...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/in-the-land-of-the-blind/) - ... Array would still be Queen. We took her in today to the eye specialist because her right eye has filled with blood. The eye is permanently blind says the doctor. We're giving medication to see if the pressure goes down. Otherwise, it'll be surgery, eye removal, and eye patch time. What happened? Who knows?
- [Golden Gate Kennel Club](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/golden-gate-kennel-club/) - We went to the Golden Gate Kennel Club show at the Cow Palace this morning. Unlike most shows, this one is "benched". The dogs and their people exhibit on benches for the whole day, so the general public can come up and talk to the people and admire the dogs close-up. Seventeen years ago we
- [Born Again Virgin](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/born-again-virgin/) - We're glad to have the familiar Toyota back in the garage. I picked it up from Alioto's garage Thursday morning, and driving it around made us think that The City had suddenly repaved all of the roads. Aside from 24 days of Kia Spectra rattling tin-can annoyance — and aside from the time and trauma
- [We Made It!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/we-made-it/) - 4 Photos
- [Repudiation](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/repudiation/) - "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world,
- [Ready for Regime Change](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ready-for-regime-change/) - Champaign is chilling, redozdachs is readying popovers (our traditional holiday breakfast), and a couple of friends are coming over to crowd into our spare bedroom to sit in front of our old-style tube TV to watch and listen. As soon as the sun rises, the flag is going up. I am a pessimist. But, I think
- [A T-Shirt to Believe In](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-t-shirt-to-believe-in/) - As modeled by its creator, fuzzygruf,at tonight's sewing circle. I am ready.
- [Lilliput's Empress Norton ML November 24, 1992 - January 13, 2009](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/lilliputs-empress-norton-ml-november-24-1992-january-13-2009/) - Lilliput's Empress Norton ML "Audit" passed away in her sleep on the floor of her beloved kitchen last night. She had been in genteel declining health for several months, and her energy level had lowered noticeably in the past week. She was 16. Audit spent her last evening sharing an honored spot on the TV
- [That's 119 in Human Years](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/thats-119-in-human-years/) - There are few birthday wishes in my blog. but this is a special occasion for our family. Today our oldest turned 17. Syntax is in good health. Active and whiny and demanding... a real bitch. And, great fun. Audit, Syntax's long-time companion, is comfortable, but failing badly. She's only 16, but never went to the gym
- [Celebrating!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/celebrating/) - It's official. 365-173. We have a President-Elect!
- [Preparing for the Real Presidential Election](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/preparing-for-the-real-presidential-election/) - We'll be at the TV Thursday at 10 am Pacific Standard Time when Vice President Dick Chaney presides over a Joint Session of Congress to count the only ballots that really matter in the Presidential election. CSPAN will carry the drama live. There will be a nationwide audience of, oh, probably a dozen people. If
- [Eleventh Night](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/eleventh-night/) - One of our family oddnesses is that we don't usually open the Christmas cards we receive when the arrive. Instead of tearing them open and rushing through them in the mad holiday rush, we put them aside. On Twelfth Night, the last night we keep the tree lit, we sit down in the livingrom, pour
- [Is this Beta?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/is-this-beta/) - Microsoft deservedly gets dinged for its buggy software and practices. But, Intuit is really trying to dethrone Bill Gate's alma mater. After buying the newest version of Quicken Home and Office with its free add-ons and a reduced-price Home Inventory module, I can report: The main Quicken Home and Office seems okay.When I went to register Quicken Legal Pro
- [Yield Pricing... or Intuit Tries to be United Airlines](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/yield-pricing-or-intuit-tries-to-be-united-airlines/) - Tony said last night that Quicken sent him email yesterday offering 50% off products for five days. It's getting time to upgrade the version I have , so I decided to to Quicken this morning to buy the latest. When I went to the Intuit Quicken page from within my current version of Quicken, the
- [Toyota Appreciation Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/toyota-appreciation-day/) - The rental Kia is really part of a plot by Toyota to make us love our injured Camry more. You win -- we give! We want the Camry to come back home! We drove the 2008 (9?) Kia Spectra through the city streets and on 880 to friends in the East Bay. We felt each
- [When Mitsubishi Outlander Meets Toyota Camry](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/when-mitsubishi-outlander-meets-toyota-camry/) - ... or how I spent my morning. Ouch! I was stopped at the red light behind other cars. He said his foot slipped from the brake pedal on to the accelerator.
- [Move Over Dixie Chicks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/move-over-dixie-chicks/) - So when did pleasant, catchy, melodic Mary Chapin Carpenter add bite to her music? I'm the decider like some kind of messiah, While another day passes and 100 souls gone.From "One with the Song" on The Calling. I guess there's nothing like a bad war to inspire good protest music.
- [A Lapsed Unitarian Universalist](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-lapsed-unitarian-universalist/) - As you have, no doubt, heard by now, President-elect Barack Obama and his family held the memorial for his grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, in our First Unitarian Church of Honolulu. I asked their minister, the Reverend Mike Young, if he would write something about this for all of us, and he most graciously agreed: Many
- [A Sunday Brunch](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-sunday-brunch/) - During holiday visits of his Reno family, redozdachs, the Renoites, and I would often met his Uncle Maurie and Aunt Phylis at the Spinnaker Restaurant in Sausalito for brunch. Good food, a great view of San Francisco across the Bay, and easy driving for both of us made the restaurant a perfect destination for a
- [Get over yourself, Geoff -- or WWHD?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/get-over-yourself-geoff-or-wwhd/) - Equality California's email blast this morning announced that Executive Director Geoff Kors was declining the invitation to attend the inauguration. He's staying away in protest of President-elect Obama's selection of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation. I deleted the email before I'd read and absorbed all of the rationale and justification for this action, but I
- [On Rick Warren](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/on-rick-warren/) - President-elect Obama's invitation to evangelist Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration has got some folks -- especially some gay folks -- in an uproar. Warren backed the bigoted Prop 8 that took away rights of same-sex couples to marry. We hate his discriminatory talk and actions. At least I do. But, I might have
- [Getting What You Ask For](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/getting-what-you-ask-for/) - The card store's categories are precise. I scoured the aisles in vain for a get well card for a friend who is ill. In fact, she's very ill -- she's dying. She will start home hospice as soon as she's released from the hospital. All of the cards in the get well section say, "Get
- [Shoes For Sale](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/shoes-for-sale/) - Genuine black leather shoes. Iraqi. Size 10, briefly examined by Inspector GWB. Scuffed, dirty soles in plain view. Obvious filth and dirt on bottom. Disgusting and disrespectful. Perfect good-bye gift for disgraced invader, Illinois governor, or other shamed and self-deluded public figure. Sometimes it takes a pair of shoes to tell the emperor that he
- [Pity the Mob-Chased Bigots](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/pity-the-mob-chased-bigots/) - The Becket Fund for Religious (sic, sick) Liberty and other fundamentalist and right-wing religious (sic) groups and individuals took out a full-page ad in the New York Times basically claiming that they are victims of mob persecution because of their Yes on Prop 8 stands and actions. Suddenly they are targets of violence. Here's their headline
- [Chickens vs Gays.  Dogs vs People.](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/chickens-vs-gays-dogs-vs-people/) - This time of the year the electronic newsletter I write for redozdachs's CPA firm includes a recommendation that people give to a charity. One year we suggested a free after-school program for Tenderloin/Western addition kids. This year we're suggesting either the San Francisco Food Bank or Muttville, a San Francisco organization whose tagline is "because
- [Prop 8 - The Musical](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/prop-8-the-musical/) - Yes, yes, it's wonderful. It's fun. (Now please stop emailing me links to it. Maybe if I post it here you'll know I've seen it!)
- [The Reason for the Season](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-reason-for-the-season/) - "Since this is our last Christmas here, we wanted to do a patriotic theme."— Laura Bush, commenting on the red, white, and blue theme for this year's White House Christmas decorations No, no, no. Jesus was not an American. He was not a Republican. I kinda think he wouldn't be a Bible-toting right-wing self-satisfied Christian,
- [... Swiftly Launched Assault Overwhelmed Police; Home Affairs Mininister Steps Down](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/swiftly-launched-assault-overwhelmed-police-home-affairs-mininister-steps-down/) - The Journal article under the headline detailed the attacks and siege. It is one of the best pieces of journalism I have read. It's clear, chronological, logical, and also filled with horror. If you don't have the Journal available to you, send me an email, and I'll send you a link to the copyrighted story.
- [Milk](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/milk/) - Whenever I woke briefly last night to turn over or to move a dog, the dreams that I was in the middle of were those of loss and impermanence. I don't recall a particular event, just the general feeling of sadness over the transitory nature of good people and good relationships. They were dreams and
- [Come Out, Turkey!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/come-out-turkey/) - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has created some sharp electronic post cards to send to family and friends to start the holiday conversation about marriage equality. I subscribe to the Harvey Milk approach to social change: telling our stories is the best way we can fight for our civil rights. These cards are a tool
- [A Child's Christmas at The Rhino](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-childs-christmas-at-the-rhino/) - Theatre Rhino can be a fun client.Yesterday their photographer finished with the publicity shots for their Christmas Panto (December 4 to 21). Fun photos to put online. Looks like it'll be a fun show, too.
- [We still grin whenever we think about our wedding](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/we-still-grin-whenever-we-think-about-our-wedding/) - The Marriage of Galen and Geoffrey October 25, 2008 (See the Pictures!) The day went just as we hoped. The ceremony let us stand up and be supported by our family and friends as we were married. At the reception we talked to many people who are very important to us. The food, squaredancing, and
- [Supervisor Bevan Dufty on No on 8 Campaign Tactics](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/supervisor-bevan-dufty-on-no-on-8-campaign-tactics/) - from the San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty, whose district includes the Castro, said the No on 8 campaign was not "culturally competent." Dufty said the campaign should have gone into "places where it isn't as easy to be gay or queer," like Visitacion Valley and Chinatown."I was a foot soldier going where people
- [Time Thieves](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/time-thieves/) - Earlier this year I signed up for a Facebook account to read the occasional postings by a cousin living abroad. In the next few days I agreed to friend requests from people who'd found me somehow. Then I forgot about Facebook. I don't read my wall or otherwise check the site for weeks at a
- [Tribalism](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tribalism/) - I always shake my head in wonder about the folks who do civil disobedience in San Francisco, annoying their allies by blocking traffic or otherwise inconveniencing people who already support their cause. I doubt that isolated, lukewarm San Francisco liberal civil disobedience works very often, anyway. And, why disrupt the lives of people already honking
- [People of Faith, Standing on the Side of Love](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/people-of-faith-standing-on-the-side-of-love/) - The national Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations has posted a video on YouTube supporting marriage equality. A photo of Geoff and me leads off the California section 39 seconds into the video. Another 5 seconds of psuedo-fame as newlyweds.
- [Be Careful What We Wish For](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/be-careful-what-we-wish-for/) - Do we really want to remove tax exempt status from churches? Churches already pay tax on business income. If they run a bookstore, a parking lot, or whatever, they pay taxes. So taking away tax exempt status only means that contributions to them will no longer result in a charitable deduction on your income tax.
- [National Protest Against Prop 8](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/national-protest-against-prop-8/) - Where the Ozdachs will be Saturday:
- [Standing on the Side of Love - Keith Olbermann's Way](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/standing-on-the-side-of-love-keith-olbermanns-way/) - It took about five times before I finally clicked through on the video. I put aside the first four email and blog postings saying I'd look at the video later. Now, let me proselytize. Damn eloquent statement, Keith.
- [Do Not Come Between the Dragon and His Wrath](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/do-not-come-between-the-dragon-and-his-wrath/) - — (The Tragedy of King Lear, I. 1) ShakespeareYes, I am angry and I am sad, and I snarl and sigh. I am focused on fighting for my rights, and want to win in court and in all future public opinion polls and votes. Yet, I know that now is not the time to talk, plot, plan,
- [They Won All the Battles But We Had All the Good Songs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/they-won-all-the-battles-but-we-had-all-the-good-songs/) - The line from Tom Lehrer song about the war against Franco, " They Won All the Battles But We Had All the Good Songs," came to mind today as I was sent the URL of another video of the vigil posted online. I guess that means I have some sense of humor left. The link
- [Second TV Interview](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/second-tv-interview/) - We didn't see this one on the news Monday, but found it on the Internet. More great redozdachs comments for a great cause.
- [Our Try](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/our-try/) - Here's a picture of redozdachs and me being interviewed during Monday's marriage vigil. About 5 seconds of us aired, and he sounded great. But, damn. I'm in the anger stage of loss. The minister's Pastoral Message on the Election helps. It's eloquent, but I liked the one better he'd prepared if both Obama and No
- [Media Moments](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/media-moments/) - redozdachs had a five-second statement on KPIX-5's report on Prop 8 last night, and I was in that clip for about 2 seconds myself. Geoff appeared under a banner that identified him as a newlywed. He also was in the front of the candlelight crowd scene on Channels 4, 7, and 11. Channel 2 ran a report,
- [Lots of Media...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/lots-of-media/) - Our church's effort to shout its religious opposition to the discriminatory Prop 8 drew camera crews from KTVU-2, KRON-4, KPIX-5, KGO-7, and from whatever NBC-11 is. redozdachs and I were interviewed by everyone but Channel 2, I think. We were representative church newly weds. We're TiVo'ing, hoping that there were more eloquent clip that will make
- [7pm Monday - KTVU will broadcast LIVE from the Unitarian Universalist Church @ Franklin and Geary](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/7pm-monday-ktvu-will-broadcast-live-from-the-unitarian-universalist-church-franklin-and-geary/) - And, apparently other media plan on being at the church's wedding vigil. The hook that got the press' attention was our plan to offer free weddings to any loving couple who show up with a license from anywhere in the state. So, we're looking to see if there are more people who will come at
- [A Message of Marriage](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-message-of-marriage/) - KCBS radio carried a report on our minister's wedding. Good story, and the reporter was friendly when he visited. But, did they need to include someone from "Yes" on 8 as part of the story? Would you invite a racist to comment on an interracial wedding? It was a lovely wedding! Rev. Greg Stewart and
- [Fun in the City](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/fun-in-the-city/) - Fun scene in the Castro on Friday. Here are a few pictures.
- [Dear Grim Reaper](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dear-grim-reaper/) - From today's Field Poll on Prop 8: All age subgroups under age 65 are opposing Prop. 8 by doubled-digit margins. However, voters 65 and over are strongly in favor of the initiative, backing Prop. 8 by a nearly two to one margin (62% Yes vs. 32% No).Most of the people over 65 who I know
- [Unbalanced Science](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/unbalanced-science/) - For a one-day honeymoon on Monday we explored to the renovated California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park. We arrived at 9:30 when the doors opened, snagged our 10:30 am planetarium tickets, whizzed through the Rain Forest, saw the planetarium show, viewed the roof garden, ate, went to the bug show, braved the strollers to
- [Faces on the Internet](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/faces-on-the-internet/) - I find it odd to be surfing the Internet and running into a picture of myself that I did not post. I'm not worried about having my soul stolen. But, I have trouble with the concept that someone would consider something I'm doing important enough to share as part of their life. Found on Facebook. A
- [Going to the Chapel](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/going-to-the-chapel/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMwe_nI2p8EWe're still high from yesterday's ceremony. My first time on the Internet as a married man I was greeted by these wishes from a college friend in Seattle who couldn't make it to SF yesterday.
- [Goin' to the Chapel: A Wedding and a Vigil in Defense of Marriage for All](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/goin-to-the-chapel-a-wedding-and-a-vigil-in-defense-of-marriage-for-all/) - Goin' to the Chapel: A Wedding and a Vigil to Defend Marriage for All. You're invited to attend the wedding of Rev. Greg Stewart to Stillman Stewart, his partner of 28 years. Assembly Mark Leno will officiate the marriage at the Unitarian Universalist Church (1187 Franklin St @ Geary), Sunday, November 2 at 11 am.On
- [538](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/538/) - Each morning we get up and check the overnight blogs and poll analysis on Fivethrityeight.com . The site aggregates polls and weights their results through statistical analysis of the pollsters past record and their collection methods. Fivethirtyeight's guru is Nate Silver who previously made his money and fame by analyzing baseball statistics and predicting winning teams. We've
- [Happy Anniversary](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/happy-anniversary/) - 18 years ago Geoff and I started our relationship. Today at 9 am we pick up our marriage license for our October 25th wedding. What a nice anniversary gift! Thank you, State of California. Thank you, Gavin.Happy Anniversary, redozdachs! I love you!
- ["Jesus was a Community Organizer...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/jesus-was-a-community-organizer/) - ... Pontius Pilate was a governor." Reported in the "Huffington Post" as being sighted elsewhere on the Internet.
- [Perfection](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/perfection/) - The perfect is the enemy of the good. -- VoltaireWhat can I say when very intelligent people stand back and say that neither/none of the viable candidates running for President deserves their vote? They are very intelligent, and therefore they have already analyzed the alternatives, weighed the pluses and minuses, and are convinced of the
- [Back from the Woods](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/back-from-the-woods/) - redozdachs and I are back in town after seeing friends and plays in Ashland and then going to the Oregon coast for a family reunion of the Henry Wood family of Middleborough, MA. Sixty of us anal-retentive Woods and their spouses enjoyed Westwind, just north of Lincoln City. Cousin Anne figures that the only way to
- [Good thing that Geoff is Driving](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/good-thing-that-geoff-is-driving/) - We were on highway 505 when Geoff flipped radio stations and heard Senator Clinton move to nominate Senator Obama by acclimation Nancy Pelosi did a quick voice vote and announced that the motion passed. We have a black man, a man younger than I, as major party candidate for President. Good thing Geoff was driving
- [The Comedy of Errors](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-comedy-of-errors/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Adapted and Directed by Penny Metropulos Music by Sterling Tinsley Lyrics by Penny Metropulos and Sterling Tinsley. Additional lyrics by Linda Alper. Oregon Shakespeare Festival has a affinity for breakthrough productions of Comedy. In 2004 Bill Rauch set the play in Las
- [Othello](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/othello/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Othello by William Shakespeare Words, words, words! Othello (Peter Macon, pictured left) and Iago (Dan Donohue, pictured right) made me feel like they each had too many of those damn multisyllabic chores to get through before they were allowed to go offstage and do something else. There was one wordy
- [Our Town](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/our-town/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Our Town by Thornton Wilder When you decide to present a well-known, quality chestnut, you're declaring that you either have a fresh vision or else you're going to new heights in production standards. Hurtling above raised expectations is the stock in trade of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with its
- [Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/breakfast-lunch-and-dinner/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner by Luis Alfaro A discussion of this performance needs be brief. The reviewer shouldn't put more effort into the recap than the play writer did into his creation. This wandering, pointless story is told with juvenile simplicity, no character development, and plenty of sophomoric words coming out
- [A View from the Bridge](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-view-from-the-bridge/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller Most plays in theaters today are snappy, fast-faced reactions to the enveloping, careful productions of the mid-1900's. They're not stodgy, not slow. We recognize what they are telling us through shared shortcut symbolism. I appreciate their directness and focus on their themes.They
- [On the Killings in Knoxville ...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/on-the-killings-in-knoxville/) - ... from my church's minister. http://uusf.org/Flame/nl-Knoxville-080728.html
- [A Hate Crime](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-hate-crime/) - I am used my religion to being the target of gentle jokes by Garrison Keillor. Friends let me know they know Unitarian Universalists believe in nothing because we demand no acceptance of a creed or statement of beliefs. Yesterday, two Unitarian Universalists died for their belief in nothing. The shooter says he targeted us because we're
- [LinkedIn](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/linkedin/) - I'm a bit slow, but after 3 clients. 2 vendors , and 3 purely personal friends asked me to join their LinkedIn networks, I decided I should complete the profile and jump into another social networking pool. If you're already LinkedIn and want me in your network, see if this link works! Or, if you're not yet
- [Plugging a Friend's Business](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/plugging-a-friends-business/) - Tim is rebooting his practice after spending about a year dealing with now-resolved health issues. I'm helping him get more exposure to potential clients. I've updated his website and he's putting advertisements in the BAR, Bay Guardian, and SF Weekly. (The graphic for this post will run in the BAR online starting next Thursday.) Tim's
- [Giving in on Core Values is not "Compromise"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/giving-in-on-core-values-is-not-compromise/) - I'm worried. After a barroom discussion yesterday about the wisdom of Barack Obama's vote for the unconstitutional FISA "compromise" bill, redozdachs sent me a link to Obama's rationalization on Huffington Post. Then I read and commented on Barack's rationalization at Obama's own site. Eloquent. But, please get the message to him: ENOUGH COMPROMISE!I am a 54-year-old moderate
- [iPhone Update Doesn't Go Smoothly -- We Have a Dead Phone as this is Posted](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/iphone-update-doesnt-go-smoothly-we-have-a-dead-phone-as-this-is-posted/) - We've encountered a roadblock in updating our iPhones to V2.0 of the software. Updating the iTunes to 7.7 goes fine, if slowly. Updating the iPhone to 2.0 goes very slowly but continuously until the phone is reset to factory settings. Then the iPhone (no longer "Galen's iPhone" in the iTunes display) tries to connect to
- [Living in a Time of Fire](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/living-in-a-time-of-fire/) - How long has it been that mornings in Noe Valley are tainted with just barely detectable smoke? Is there a fireplace going near-by? So early in the morning? After a short, irritated hack of a cough, I remember. The smoke from the Big Basin Complex fires -- or from one of the other 1000 fires
- [Let the Dead's Own Words Speak Ill of Them](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/let-the-deads-own-words-speak-ill-of-them/) - "[Senator Jesse] Helms regularly clashed with Bill Clinton, and once said the president "better have a bodyguard" if he visited North Carolina. He later said the comment was meant in jest." (Wall Street Journal 7/5/08)"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the
- [Bored... Tubby... Mild!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/bored-tubby-mild/) - Feeling old(er)? Enjoy Newsday's 2008 version of Born to be Wild. Wistfully nostalgic. Kinda sad. Very fun. We were spoiled, pushy wild, But now we're bored, tubby and mild. Sit in your chair and rock to Bored... Tubby... Mild!
- [My Mouth Hurts from Grinning](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/my-mouth-hurts-from-grinning/) - My condition started a week ago Tuesday about 8:15 am when redozdachs dropped me off at the celebration van my co-religionists had set up across Polk Street from San Francisco City Hall. I looked around at the crowds of smiling, cheering people and started grinning. As I talked with fellow Unitarian Universalists handing out wedding cupcakes
- [The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-further-adventures-of-hedda-gabler/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler by Jeff Whitty Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler ends with the title character shooting herself. This play starts off with the last page of Ibsen's dialog and cavorts forward from there. You don't need to have seen or know the original Hedda, you'll soon
- [The Lead Story on the 5 pm News](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-lead-story-on-the-5-pm-news/) - My church's stand for marriage equality was the lead story on tonight's 5 pm KTVU news. The story appropriately spent most of the time interviewing Don and David, a couple of 30 years who are getting legally married at City Hall Tuesday. My 15 minutes of fame was actually more like 4 seconds. But, I
- [San Francisco Unitarian Universalists Celebrate June 17th, 2008](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/san-francisco-unitarian-universalists-celebrate-june-17th-2008/) - This entry will be used to communicate the latest updates on the celebrations planned for June 17, 2008 by the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco. Check back throughout the day on Tuesday! Celebrations start at 8 am at City Hall where we give out wedding gifts and wedding (CUP)cakes. Ministers will be at
- [A Midsummer Night's Dream](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-midsummer-nights-dream/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Wow! This Midsummer isn't so much a staging of a grandmother-approved Shakespeare classic as a performance of a barely Work Safe on-stage rave. The risque romp uses Shakespeare's text and then sings, dances, and acts the story into a frenzy.The best part
- [There is a God!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/there-is-a-god/) - ... at least one of public parking. When I came back to the Sutter Stockton garage this afternoon, I was stopped on the way back to my car by a woman asking for help getting out of her space. She said she was sweating and panicking. She couldn't figure out how to extract her vehicle from
- [Because he's an Old-Fashioned Republican](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/because-hes-an-old-fashioned-republican/) - "Governor backs same-sex marriage ruling" says the Chronicle headline. But then they go goofy with, "But the Republican governor's stance on same-sex marriage has been curious and confusing to many people. Since his election in 2003, Schwarzenegger has twice vetoed bills to legalize marriage for homosexual couples." KCBS joined the chorus of confusion in their
- [Home](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/home/) - We're back in San Francisco. It's especially nice to live in California today.
- [Sailing to San Francisco](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sailing-to-san-francisco/) - redozdachs and I are MIA (or, rather in MIA) waiting for the 11 am bus to take us from our red-eye flight to the Ft. Lauderdale dock where the Coral Princess will sail to San Francisco. The five-hour layover in baggage claim is 5 minutes shorter than the cross-country flight. But, 15 days of post-tax-season relaxation
- [E is for Empathy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/e-is-for-empathy/) - HomEland Security chief MichaEl ChErtoff said today that he understands the trauma caused by the government's crackdown on illegal aliens. (AP story) He said he feels the pain of employers who are left short staffed when their workers are deported. I am kinda not thinking of businesses when the subject of disruption due to sudden
- [Merry Good Friday, and a Happy Easter, too!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/merry-good-friday-and-a-happy-easter-too/) - This is the latest propaganda inviting y'all to come to church on Sunday.
- [The Iraq Vigil and My Video Education](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-iraq-vigil-and-my-video-education/) - The Vigil to end the Iraq War last Sunday filled the church's pews and rows of folding chairs at the back. We turned people away at the door. Television stations 2, 4, 7, 11, and 14 sent reporters and cameras. It was a good public cry for a change in policy. I used the occasion
- [God Damn Fox News](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/god-damn-fox-news/) - I'm still vibrating from the directness of Barack Obama's speech this morning. Unblinking and compassionate. Calming and passionate. What I believe, phrased like poetry. Race isn't going away. We cannot ignore it and hope it will go away. Then the talking heads. We had Fox on (because CNN just doesn't stop talking about itself). Immediately
- ["Politicians don't need to raise their voices, they need to raise their standards"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/politicians-dont-need-to-raise-their-voices-they-need-to-raise-their-standards/) - Assemblyman Mark Leno is running for Carole Migden's State Senate Seat. I support Mark. He's hardworking, reasonable, and sane. I agree with most of his policies, too. Not a bad TV ad.
- [The Iraq War: 5 Years Too Many](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-iraq-war-5-years-too-many/) - A Vigil to Change the World State Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco), Actor Sean Penn, Senior Minister Rev. Gregory Stewart, Iraqi Veteran Specialist Joe Wheeler, Cindy Sheehan, and other peacemakers commemorate the 5th year of the war with a Peace Vigil 5 pm Sunday (March 16) at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Franklin and Geary.
- [A Rose is a Tulip is an Iris](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-rose-is-a-tulip-is-an-iris/) - Why do we know of Cindy Sheehan? We have heard of her because her soldier son was killed in the Iraq War on April 4, 2004. That's her horrible claim to fame. Since her son was killed, she had done a number of noisy things to capture attention. But, if her son was still alive,
- [How Do You Report Sales  Calls Coming to Your Cell Phone?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/how-do-you-report-sales-calls-coming-to-your-cell-phone/) - We've been getting sales calls directly to Geoff's cell phone. The automated voice says she's calling about our car warranty is about to expire. (That's unlikely, since one car is new and the other is 16 years old.) The calls have been from: 562 228-7160 502 894-0098. Today Geoff pushed "1" to speak to a representative.
- [Do I Get a Refund?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/do-i-get-a-refund/) - I know that newspapers are having a tough time. But, I am not sure that they have to be so obvious about it. Do they make it up in volume?!
- [It's on Cars.Com and Craigslist](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/its-on-cars-com-and-craigslist/) - Over the past month we've had a number of friends say that they have friends interested in buying our '92 Honda Accord... but they don't show up at our door! So, I've posted the For Sale notice on Craigslist and on Cars.Com. If y'all know anyone who's interested, ... The CarFAX report.
- [Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/welcome-home-jenny-sutter/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival world premiere - opening performance, February 24, 2008 Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter by Julie Marie Myatt I cannot image a more calculated tugging of the audience's heart-strings. Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter is Love Story written to honor Iraq War veterans. I feel manipulated, dirty. "I noticed that you
- [The Clay Cart](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-clay-cart/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival opening performance, February 23, 2008 The Clay Cart by Sudraka (Translated by J.A.B. van Buitenen) I've never seen a live-action Disney cartoon pageant before. It was wonderful! A rich, gorgeous stage filled with 40-some actors hosted this 2000-year-old play. The cast moved the story and the audience with
- [Fences](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/fences/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival opening performance, February 23, 2008 Fences by August Wilson The opening of Fences revealed a shaky story shakily told. I assume that it's the script which has inconsistencies and false starts that Oregon Shakespeare merely brought forward. Certainly this production didn't weave together a clear or consistent or
- [Where Are The Scurrilous Rumors about the Republicans?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/where-are-the-scurrilous-rumors-about-the-republicans/) - We all know that Barack Obama is a radical Muslim who will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Meanwhile, Hilary Clinton helped free two Black Panthers accused of murder and as Senator refused to meet with a delegation of Gold Star mothers. We know this because email and the Internet tell us so. I hunt
- [UU Finally on YouTube](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/uu-finally-on-youtube/) - Jeremy, our 20/30-something intern minister, finally snagged some of Greg's time for a YouTube video with a few pithy sound bites about the church. I kinda like Greg's "We are a church where God is optional, but you are not", but I know I'm biased. Us older people want to make these videos a production,
- [Election Returns](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/election-returns/) - BARACK OBAMA 88,886 52.21% HILLARY CLINTON 75,341 44.25% Unfortunately, those numbers were only from the City County Nation State of San Francisco. It's a great, important contest. I'm happy that our district will be supplying more Obama delegates to the convention.
- [Obama Oh Eight!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/obama-oh-eight/) - My fingers are tired from holding up two Barrack Obama signs on the traffic island at Castro and Market for a couple hours. It's a good tired, I think. The last time I stood on a street corner proclaiming for a Presidential candidate was in 1960 about 100 feet from the polling place at the local
- [Another Neighbor for Obama](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/another-neighbor-for-obama/) - On the way to watching the Superbowl yesterday, we passed the home of an obviously intelligent, sophisticated, and patriotic neighbor. I admit to being impressed that hand made their "Obama" letters -- nothing from campaign HQ here! I'm taking time off today to do more Get Out The Vote calls, and plan to walk my
- [For the Want of a Nail](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/for-the-want-of-a-nail/) - I signed up to work as an Obama precinct captain on a Saturday. After 10 days and many emails I was sent a username and password to get access to my assigned precinct. The online system lets me log in, but won't let me look at any voters. I call the volunteer office and make a
- [Tasty Words](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tasty-words/) - Dear Senator Kerry, I apologize for my snarky comments about your ability to spark a crowd. I will happily eat them. Yum! You hit the tone and hit the words this morning at the Obama rally. Thank you! (It's not my fault. He was wooden on TV during the 2004 campaign. It wasn't my imagination,
- [A Walk in the Valley for Obama](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-walk-in-the-valley-for-obama/) - Tomorrow (Saturday, February 2) Obama supporters are meeting at Everett Middle School, 450 Church Street @ 16th at 9:30 a.m. We'll be whipped into a frenzy by speakers Sen. John Kerry and Supervisor Bevan Dufty. (Okay, I cannot make this up. Sen. Kerry will speak, and the Obama person I spoke with in the office
- [How to Sell A Car?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/how-to-sell-a-car/) - The new car is comfortable in the garage, but it's a bit jealous of our old love. It's insisting that we sell soon, or it will doubt the sincerity of our relationship. Anyone have experience with selling a vehicle on Craigslist, cars.com, or Kelly Book Book.com? Kelly Blue Book online says its private party sale
- [Obama for President](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/obama-for-president/) - In my opinion, there are several good Democratic candidates running for President. I am happy to choose among well qualified people who have reasonable views on most issues. I will support any of the major Democratic contenders in the Fall election. Nevertheless, I have a strong preference for Senator Barack Obama. The greatest Obama advantage is the way he
- [Wrapped Up in the Flag](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/wrapped-up-in-the-flag/) - I dislike people who wrap themselves up in the flag to advance their personal agendas. It's unseemly. It cheapens the symbolic power of the flag. I consider self-serving calls to rally around the flag contemptible. I don't vote for politicians whose major ability seems their skill in draping themselves in red, white, and blue. I don't
- [Peets for PAWS](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/peets-for-paws/) - Forwarded email from a Mira Loma Park friend: Peets Coffee in West Portal is sponsoring a Peets for PAWS Day on Monday, December 24. In addition to giving out free house drip coffee (can't beat that!) on Monday from 6:00 AM to 4:00 PM, they will be asking customer to make donations to support Pets
- [Can We Buy Your Vote?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/can-we-buy-your-vote/) - Email from our friend Kim who is an ex-pat living in southeast Thailand: You might have read, Thailand has an election coming up this month, first one since the coup in September 2006. There are two large parties, and a dozen more little ones. As usual, there have been a ton of reports in the
- [When San Francisco Was the City Your Mother Warned You About](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/when-san-francisco-was-the-city-your-mother-warned-you-about/) - Before I moved to San Francisco my friends and relatives were concerned that I was relocating to a land of drugged-out crazies. Even my dope-smoking college friends weren't completely sure that San Franciscans were to be trusted. There was some cause for their wariness. Something must be in the water to cause the cluster of craziness.
- [Dear Vladimir...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dear-vladimir/) - I am fairly sure I don't want Vladimir Putin as my journal censor, but I know I don't want him to have access to any thoughts or writings of mine that are not already absolutely public. What 'sup? LiveJournal announced Sunday that it is being acquired by SUP, SUP is an international online media company
- [Helping a Statistic](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/helping-a-statistic/) - About eight years ago our next-door neighbor died of breast cancer. She had felt a lump and was too afraid to have it checked out. The first symptom that she couldn't ignore was the broken foot she suffered when she stepped out of the car. By that time the cancer had spread to her bones, and
- [I Feel Like Jessica Fletcher](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-feel-like-jessica-fletcher/) - You know how Jessica always discovered who done it by catching the bad guy knowing something only the killer knew? So this vendor responds to my email flame which complained about a series of his failures to return calls to me. I'd listed a number of calls which failed to generate a response. I asked him to
- [It's Good to Live in the Speaker's District](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/its-good-to-live-in-the-speakers-district/) - Richard was born in Montana and served in the US Army before moving to Perth, marrying, becoming an Australian citizen, and living there 30 years. The US didn't recognize dual citizenships then, and he had to relinquish his US Passport and, supposedly, his citizenship. His wife died a few years ago. Last winter he fell in love
- [On Ham Sandwiches](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/on-ham-sandwiches/) - You'd think that Barry Bonds' ingestion of steroids matters in our daily lives. The media Bonds vortex is sucking oxygen and intelligence out of the airwaves up and down the dial. KGO's anchors last night found an expert to interview who was hyped and ready to compare the damage to Bond's reputation to the damage
- [Finally a test I can Pass](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/finally-a-test-i-can-pass/) - 97%ALCOHOLICexcessor, a fellow 97%'er, and I can tear up bars together... so long as we have the appropriate designated driver.
- [Building My Own Theology](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/building-my-own-theology/) - I can write passionately and articulately about social, political, and moral issues. The media’s preoccupation with across-the-world child molesters, Senator’s bathroom habits, and the rescue of little children who’ve fallen down wells get me ranting about our seemingly endless ability to focus on the myopically sensational and tragic-yet-unimportant in life. These stories can really get
- [Pandering](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/pandering/) - One of my reoccurring San Francisco political thrills is the appearance of political office seekers at a Sunday beer bash at a gay bar. When I moved to The City 25 years ago, there were few other cities whose politicians would openly court gays and lesbian voters. Certainly the city council members of Long Beach
- [An Early Halloween](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/an-early-halloween/) - At cocktail hour on Halloween redozdachs and I went out to 440 Castro to watch the military parade on Castro Street. If police uniforms counted, most everyone was in costume... there were battalions of them! Otherwise, no people in the streets, at least while we were out. We hung out until past 7 when David, Harlan,
- [A Family Portrait in Black and White](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-family-portrait-in-black-and-white/) - The minister and his family lounged by the hotel pool during the day and ate in the fine dining restaurant in the evening. Later that night the hotel called four police officers to demand entrance into the family's room to investigate the report of child molestation suspected by another guest. The questions were forceful, unapologetic, and
- [Mona "The Hammer" Shaw](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/mona-the-hammer-shaw/) - This 75-year-old woman was arrested for busting up her local Comcast customer service office when that company delivered its infamous service. I know it's wrong of me to feel a twinge of pride that she is both a secretary of her squaredance club and a Unitarian Universalist. The Washington Post story on Mona The Hammer
- [Unitarian Universalist TV Spot](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/unitarian-universalist-tv-spot/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMKtADKzOIMore street corner evangelism. Watch out when I ring your doorbell on a Saturday morning. The ad is playing this month on the Bay Area cable TV broadcasts of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
- [Imagine](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/imagine/) - The San Francisco Unitarian Universalist church is participating in a $300,000 advertising campaign that will run ads around the Bay Area this coming month. That's not much money in media terms, but it' a start! My current volunteer task is to edit stock ads to the size required by different web sites. This is my
- [The Weather Underground](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-weather-underground/) - Too much fun for the weather fixated (This means you, MP!) Check out the map on the right side at Weather Underground. It looks like 5 of us within a square mile report on on conditions at least a few times each hour. It's nice to live in Geekland.
- [Waking Up In The City](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/waking-up-in-the-city/) - Rather pleasant, eh? 5-photo slideshow
- [Friendship Set to Music](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/friendship-set-to-music/) - We returned from vacation and discovered that one of San Francisco's squaredance clubs is starting up a beginning class. What fun! The Foggy City Dancers' free introductory session is this Tuesday. (At 3435 Cesar Chavez, #204.) Folks are invited to just show up. Squaredancing is where redozdachs and I met people who have been friends for
- [Romeo and Juliet](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/romeo-and-juliet/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Director and future Artistic Director Bill Rauch found ways to make this classic fresh and standout from the pack of "another Romeo and Juliet". Rauch's creativity augers well for his upcoming run as the festival's Visionary In Chief. This is a fast-paced R&J, and it
- [Tracy's Tiger](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tracys-tiger/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalTracy's Tiger Book and Lyrics by Linda Alper, Douglas Langworthy, and Penny Metropulos Composer: Sterling Tinsley When I rail against musicals, I am denouncing the big stage, big production number shows that seem only incidentally interested in the erstwhile story. I am frustrated beyond reason by those extravaganza's whose spoken
- [Distracted](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/distracted/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalDistracted by Lisa Loomer The cacophony of cell phones, bad hip hop, and telemarketing calls is familiar. The witty commentary on our overstimulated life is satisfying and relaxing. The faux concerned neighbors, teachers, and doctors are so recognizable that they're disarming. The script is sufficiently pleasant and smugness-producing that
- [The Tempest](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-tempest/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Tempest by William Shakespeare Note to self: You do not like The Tempest. You think it is pretty much a waste of time. In the first act one implausible thing happens after another, and the remainder of the play just doesn't have enough pleasurable fantasies or moralistic outcomes to
- [The Taming of the Shrew](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-taming-of-the-shrew/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare There's so much chemistry between Vilma Silva's Katherina and Michael Elich's Petruchio that this male chauvinism manual almost escapes its own words. Silva is a striking, confident, beautiful woman. Elich is vigorous and sexy in a way that seems unique to wiry bald men. Together
- [Tartuffe](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tartuffe/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Tartuffe by Moliere, translated by Ranjit Bolt Damn, it's satisfying when a hoary piece of "accessible" culture is given genuine life on stage. When I last saw Tartuffe it was played for all of the pretentious fluff possible. The play had no present meaning, unless you read the scholarly
- [I Have a Personality?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-have-a-personality/) - Work tasks have snuck to the top of my time allocation list. Recording thoughts of life, politics, and even religion have been pushed behind the need to figure out Wordpress blogging customization for a potential client and other important matters. leatherlion's entry on his personality test at least got me sidetracked into my world long
- [Google and Earthquakes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/google-and-earthquakes/) - The US Geological Service earthquake details page includes a link to Google Earth that shows an image of earthquake epicenters. (Requires that Google Earth be on your computer.) Earthquake 4.2! Coming to a back yard near you! Up close and personal, eh?
- [Waking Up in Earthquake Country](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/waking-up-in-earthquake-country/) - The bedroom windows rattled briefly as if our neighbor's child was bouncing through their house. Vector and I woke up, and I wondered if their family was leaving early on a car trip. There was no more noise, though, and the other four of the pack (redozdachs, Syntax, Audit, and Array) slept through it all.
- [Speaking for God](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/speaking-for-god/) - From the BBC: "Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling," said Louisiana senator David Vitter after he was identified as associating with DC Madam Deborah Palfrey. 1. I really don't care about the Senator's sex life. 2. I believe that Senator Vitter can
- [The Completion of a Life](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-completion-of-a-life/) - Dr. Maurice R. Barusch, Uncle Maurie, completed his life Saturday evening at his home in Oakland. His sons, Larry and Ron, and wife Barbara were with him. He and Aunt Phyllis were life-long fighters for equality and improvement of their community. Uncle Maurie was a charter member of the Richmond (now West Contra Costa County) Unified
- [Random](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/random/) - Tagged by redsquaredInstructions: Each player starts with 7 random habits/facts about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 7 people to get tagged & list their names. Don't forget to leave
- [When Daily Life Makes Me Forget San Francisco Values](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/when-daily-life-makes-me-forget-san-francisco-values/) - Fighting with spam, battling telephone companies, and doing the routine daily maintenance easily becomes the focus of life and blog material. I forget how special our San Francisco community is.
- [Time Is Right for New Pentagon Papers](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/time-is-right-for-new-pentagon-papers/) - The story of the leak of the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times is famous, but how they got published as a book, with Mike Gravel's face on the jacket, reads like a John Grisham novel. I heard a radio report Monday that Gravel is the first major-party (but not "major" himself) Presidential candidate
- [Moki is a Star](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/moki-is-a-star/) - Hollis and Mary Pat's Moki is offering SNYP's (5-cents a snip) to his fertile feline friends in Jackson County. It doesn't sound like something I want to be the poster boy for, but Moki doesn't have any issues with the program!
- [Our Vet Uses OPEC Pricing Methodology](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/our-vet-uses-opec-pricing-methodology/) - She charges that much, because she can. I've moaned before about our very pricey veterinarian. We love her because she is excellent with the dogs and she's the only vet we've had who will look at a dachshund and not diagnose "back problems" as the cause of whatever ails them. This is huge: she's saved the
- [Life in a Small Town](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/life-in-a-small-town/) - Yesterday's lunch honoring an 80-something-year-old friend from church was good small-town San Francisco, another reminder of why living here feels so right for us. Our friend Bernice received the annual Eleanor Roosevelt Award from the local Democratic Women's Forum, and the banquet room of Castagnola’s on Fisherman's Wharf was a perfect place for the homily
- [Alice Wallace](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/alice-wallace/) - A friend was killed while crossing the street in a crosswalk during daylight yesterday. She was older, and hadn't made it across wide 19th Avenue before the light turned. Someone — apparently a 47-year-old man without a license — zipped out of the line of backed-up traffic and sped into an open lane and into
- [Are You a Dancer or a Socializer?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/are-you-a-dancer-or-a-socializer/) - apparentparadox’s post about his "Partly Cloudy" experience at the recent squaredancing convention rekindled my musings about the state of that “friendship set to music” hobby. I had a "mostly sunny" convention, but understand how Tim experienced the same event so differently. There is a fundamental dichotomy in the squaredancing community. For some ("Dancers"), the joy
- [Happy Birthdays, Gentlemen](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/happy-birthdays-gentlemen/)
- [Square Pirates](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/square-pirates/) - The 24th convention of the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs is over! We arrived home after an uneventful flight talking about how this year we're going to start dancing regularly. Must have been a good convention. Slideshow from the Grand March and Opening. (Static Version) Earlier slideshow of Denver. (Static Version)
- [Welcome, Earthlings](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/welcome-earthlings/) - I felt like the much talked-about visitor from Mars observing local customs during our trip to Denver yesterday. Instead of traveling 100+ flights as I did in 2000, yesterday's plane ride was the first for me in 2007. I don't go to airports often, especially not during mid-week peak business travel times. So, yesterday's field
- [Green Harlan](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/green-harlan/) - Harlan has joined the cult: He rolled into our driveway yesterday evening with his Silver Pine (light green) Prius hatchback and took us on an environmentally sensitive test drive around Noe Valley and the Castro. Very nice car with a comfortable back seat (where else would you put me?). Well made and the dazzling electronic displays
- [Blackbird](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/blackbird/) - San Francisco at the American Conservatory Theater Blackbird by David Harrower This is a conversation play. Two actors are alone on the stage for an 85-minute one-act roller coaster. I flashed on the movie My Dinner with Andre. I loved that film's ability to renew the conversation and make me want to listen in even longer.
- [Mother's Day Ceremony in the News](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/mothers-day-ceremony-in-the-news/) - At least 150 people came and celebrated Mother's Day this morning on our church steps. Rev. Gregory Stewart talked to us of the historic meaning of the day. War veterans, war resisters, and Assemblyman Mark Leno spoke. Karen Meredith was heartbreaking as she spoke of the last Mother's Day she was able to share with
- [A 2007 Mother's Day Story](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-2007-mothers-day-story/) - I discovered (was reminded?) this year that Mother's Day didn't start out as a time to send cards, candy, and flowers to your mother. It began in the US in 1870 as a fairly radical Mother's proclamation for peace. The author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe, issued the first Mother's Day
- [Why I Like Living in the City, Part MMMCXXVI](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/why-i-like-living-in-the-city-part-mmmcxxvi/) - Yesterday The City was warmer than anywhere else. People I spoke with from Ashland to Phoenix were in cooler weather, and the computer screen showed that all of my favorite cities were cooler. I was tempted to whine when the inside temperature went over 90 yesterday afternoon. Instead, I changed into shorts for the night
- [Gem of the Ocean](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/gem-of-the-ocean/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson The excellence of Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production serves to point out the flaws in this first episode of August Wilson's 10-play series on the Afro-American experience in America in the 20th Century. The evening oozes importance and great meaning. The cast rises
- [On the Razzle](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/on-the-razzle/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard Either your the type of person who laughs non-stop at silly sit-coms or you're not. If you're not, then there's no use in someone talking to you about the quality of the script, the acting, the physical humor, or any of the
- [Oh, No! I have joined another Cult!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/oh-no-i-have-joined-another-cult/) - A business associate of redozdachs mentioned that she was getting new clients because of favorable reviews in Yelp! So, as redozdachs's PR person, I decided I needed to check out the site. In a typical Internet free-association foray (like the ones where you start off looking for your Congresswoman's web page and you wind up reading about
- [A Wolf Camera Warning](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-wolf-camera-warning/) - These folks have perfected the "It's not my fault -- what do you expect?" attitude once you've bought from them. An under-warranty sensor cleaning of my Canon EOS RebelXT will take at least 2 weeks, maybe 6, maybe more, who knows? The store has to send every repair back to mother Wolf in Minnesota. The guy
- [Inane Media - Part 47,027](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/inane-media-part-47027/) - The breathless media questioning frenzy to discover why the mentally ill man killed 32 people stops me cold. What made him so angry? What happened that day? Why did he pick the buildings he did? Just what part of "schizophrenic" don't reporters understand?
- [Oh, You Want THAT Price?!!!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/oh-you-want-that-price/) - I hadn't realized that crazy-quilt pricing, perfected by the airline industry, had moved into the land of white-bread electronics stores. Sure, I know that you have to bargain when you buy in the low-rent camera stores on Market, Grant, and Kearny streets. When you buy at specialty stores like Wolfs I expect to be rewarded
- [Fighting Cancer One Weed at a Time](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/fighting-cancer-one-weed-at-a-time/) - Another 40-something friend is in the hospital, recovering from cancer surgery after months of chemotherapy designed to shrink the tumors. The operation was about a week ago, and I think he's cleaned up enough now for his three- and five-year-old daughters to visit him without freaking them out too much. Good surgical results, apparently, but not really
- [Planning Ahead?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/planning-ahead/) - I made flight reservations to the Denver convention without much problem today. (Okay, no seat assignments on the way home, but standing for 2 hours won't be bad, will it?) However, it looks like the hotel block is filled on some days and filling on the others. The online site showed most days sold out
- [Coming Up for Air](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/coming-up-for-air/) - After 16 tax seasons with redozdachs my method of coping has devolved into sharing his pain by being equally focused on non-fun things. Since arriving home from the pre-tax-season cruise, I haven't managed to edit and publish the photographs from the trip. But, I have:Completed a website for a Unitarian Universalist minister looking for an interim
- [Rabbit Hole](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/rabbit-hole/) - February 25, 2007 - Opening Performance Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalRabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire I pushed my way out of the theater at intermission because after only an hour or so, I needed daylight. I was hoping for bright sunshine, but the obscured sky and the accompanying driving rain actually was probably
- [The Cherry Orchid](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-cherry-orchid/) - February 24, 2007 - Opening Performance Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Cherry Orchid by Anton Chekhov Symbolism alert! Or, as redozdachs said as I prepared to come up for opening weekend, "This is your first chance to say 'good-bye' to Libby Appel for the last time." Yes, Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Libby Appel is
- [As You Like It](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/as-you-like-it/) - February 23, 2007 - Opening Night Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalAs You Like It by William Shakespeare One of the best aspects of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is its de-monumentizing of Shakespeare. His plays are put on stage without the pomposity that lets the audience know that they are seeing high culture which is
- [Rep. Ackerman: 'A Platoon Of Lesbiansâ™ Could â˜Chase Us Out Of Baghdad'](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/rep-ackerman-a-platoon-of-lesbiansa-could-a˜chase-us-out-of-baghdad/) - Yesterday, during hearings on the State Departmentâ™s 2008 budget, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) slammed the U.S. militaryâ™s ban on gay servicemembers, saying the Pentagon âœseems more afraid of gay people than they are [of] terrorists,â and that if the terrorists were smart, âœtheyâ™d get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.âread more
- [Breakfast of Champions](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/breakfast-of-champions/) - Some of the 80 men who slept in at the church Monday night couldn't stay for the 6 am breakfast because they had to get to their early-starting jobs.And, it was uncomfortable to be thanked so profusely for serving toast, cold cereal, and oatmeal for breakfast. (Maybe if we had eggs, pancakes, or French toast
- [Best Comment on Gavin Newsom's Affair](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/best-comment-on-gavin-newsoms-affair/) - "It's not really Shakespeare, it's more like Desparate Housewives" -- Tom Aminano.
- [Acapulco](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/acapulco/) - Our itinerary allowed us three decompressing days at sea before our first -- and most southern -- port call in Acapulco. By the time we were escorted into the harbor by playing dolphins, the weather had become tropically warm. We were glad to leave the shivering behind. Our walking tour of the old part of
- [Embarkation](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/embarkation/) - San Francisco was cold and absolutely beautiful when we left on our cruise two weeks ago. As we passed under the Golden Gate Bridge as the sun was low in the sky, these well wishers sent us out of the Bay on a high. More pictures from the first day.
- [Princesses](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/princesses/) - We're back! Disembarked at 10:30 this morning, and still unpacking and doing laundry. Wonderful trip. Here's a quick log started on my notebook on board. Over the next few days I'll download pictures, make links, and add some impressions. Sunday (1/14) - embarked in San Francisco and sailed under Golden Gate Bridge in bright, clear,
- [Cruising](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cruising/) - Before the long tax season starts for redozdachs, we need to decompress to give our systems a running start at the chasm of endless hours and frazzled nerves. Our 2006 January relaxation in Ashland was just what we needed, and we wanted a repeat of that break from everyday commitments. Maybe it was a passing rainstorm,
- [The Dog Days of January](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-dog-days-of-january/) - After 3 trips to the vet in 2 days, Vector is comfortable and without signs of infection. He still isn't himself. Moments of lively greetings are balanced by lots of time at the back of his kennel. Something simple and soon curable like doggie diverticulitis? Irritable bowel? Something awful like a cancerous tumor blocking his
- [If He Had Only Paid More Attention...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/if-he-had-only-paid-more-attention/) - I wish the President had paid more attention to current events in his youth. It would have been better for him to have learned then the hollowness of "Vietnamization" rather than making the nation now relive the misery of that futile policy. Parents of future presidents, make them watch this chapter of President Bush's Iraq
- [How to Talk to a Human](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/how-to-talk-to-a-human/) - gethuman recently re-rated 500 companies on the quality of their telephone customer service. The results are ugly: Grade - % of total number of companies A - 1.80% B - 4.01% C - 3.81% D - 6.01% F - 84.37% (from the gethuman blog) The results are no surprise. Too many companies seemed determined to
- [Epiphany](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/epiphany/) - A choice part of Christmas is the slowing down and the taking of time to think about friends, family, and our comfortable life. Yet, the holiday cards start arriving soon after Thanksgiving, well before our family has found the contemplative or even appreciative spirit. For years, we would hurriedly rip open the cards along with the bills and
- [One Day, 18 Hours, and Change](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/one-day-18-hours-and-change/) - As we watched the funeral of President Gerald Ford this morning, the passing of Presidents was on my mind. I'm still not over the assassination decade of the '60's. I have a lingering worry in the back of my mind whenever I see a President in public. This morning the President and Vice President were sitting
- [Holiday Memories](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/holiday-memories/) - Our holidays included friends and family. Good times. We remembered those who couldn't come or call this year because of death. We missed others whose schedules or geographic location keep them from visiting. This picture is of Audit enjoying her holiday present. Christmas Eve we asked the restaurant if they had any extra bones, and
- [There's Weather Again in the Valley](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/theres-weather-again-in-the-valley/) - We're back on Weather Underground thanks to new RainWise hardware and WeatherMax32 software. My weather-obsessed grandmother would be pleased. Noe Valley Weather at Weather Underground, or more details on our personal website.
- [Merry Christmas !](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/merry-christmas/)
- [Another Queen with a Podcast](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/another-queen-with-a-podcast/) - But, not another common queen with a podcast. This is a The Royal Podcast! HRH Elizabeth II is signing up the modern commoners. Click to subscribe.
- [Much Ado about Almost Nothing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/much-ado-about-almost-nothing/) - One my clients is the inventor of many IC chips and an author of technical electronic books. He's just completed the manuscript of a general audience history of electronics which delivers a lot of information in style. It's fun. While not pitched only at geeks, I could see myself reading Much Ado About Almost Nothing:
- [Too Much God in Church](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/too-much-god-in-church/) - "Did you know that he was such a theist when you were on the ministerial search committee?" my co-religionist asked today during the after-service church coffee hour. She was polite, but the question itself was a clear accusation. The irony of being asked this question in a church was the first thought to grab me.
- [Storm's Coming](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/storms-coming/) - The promised rain storm headed to San Francisco gave us this sunrise in Noe Valley this morning. We need the rain, too. (Larger versions of photos available by clicking on each image.)
- [Soulless Entertainers as Health Police](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/soulless-entertainers-as-health-police/) - It's our attempt to remove ourselves from our own mortality that makes us so enthusiastic in finding a reason that someone gets sick and dies. Adam ate only fried food, so no wonder he had the heart attack. Betty belched smoke all the time, so no wonder she got lung cancer. But, KGO's only openly
- [When the "Previous" Link Goes Away](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/when-the-previous-link-goes-away/) - When LJ stops offering a "Previous" link on your friends page and the skip count is well over 200, it's an indication of either a long third-world vacation or a busy schedule. Unfortunately, there's been no travel. Two Christmases ago I started blogging for the chance to write on a regular basis. Fun writing. Not
- [Unitarian Universalist Propaganda](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/unitarian-universalist-propaganda/) - My Minster in the MediaRev. Gregory Stewart and Partner Interviewed This Afternoon KALW (91.7 FM) will air a 30-minute interview with my church's minister at 2 pm this afternoon as part of the Out in the Bay program. redozdachs and I heard only the last half of the program when it was originally broadcast Thanksgiving night. That
- ["But, this election really won't changing anything..."](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/but-this-election-really-wont-changing-anything/) - Within this first week after the Democratic Congressional victory the bar conversations and blogs are already filling with the futility of choosing between Republicans and Democrats. With a world-weary air, folks are lamenting the Tweedle-Dee Tweedle-Dum two-party system, yearning for Real Choices. Nothing will be really different. Global warming will grow, racial and sexual orientation discrimination will remain,
- [I want to Buy a Vowel](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-want-to-buy-a-vowel/) - or maybe just rearrange the Scrabble rack... From http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6203859,00.html.
- [Fun with Marketing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/fun-with-marketing/) - Rather than simply posting the Theatre Rhino fundraising letter and putting a text link to it, I decided to have some fun today. Too smutty? Will it make you stop and send them a check? See the original at www.therhino.org.
- [Small Victories](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/small-victories/) - In the midst of the truly important state and national results, I am also pleased that the two people I have blogged about were appropriately elected (Bevan Dufty by 65%) or thrown out (Dan Kelly came in 5th with only 3 elected). Lots of good results from last night.
- [Don't Fix Those Potholes - Alix for Supervisor](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dont-fix-those-potholes-alix-for-supervisor/) - My post on why I am voting to re-elect Bevan Dufty for supervisor wondered about why self-proclaimed environmentalists were backing another candidate. I said I couldn't figure out why they took their position from reading the campaign materials I'd seen. Today's mail answered my question. Here's the reason they're voting for Bevan's opponent: I am
- [Why I am Voting to Re-elect San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/why-i-am-voting-to-re-elect-san-francisco-supervisor-bevan-dufty/) - Unless there is a burning, divisive issue, I don't choose my elected officials on the basis of a specific issue or a select picking of votes. I want someone in office who is thoughtful, will sort though the pros and cons of particular bills, come up with a vision for the city (state, nation), tell
- [Minister Interviewed on NPR](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/minister-interviewed-on-npr/) - My church's minister, Rev. Gregory Stewart, and his partner Stillman White were featured Tuesday in a nationally broadcast News and Notes segment focusing on the adoption of Afro-American children by white gay couples.The NPR reporter, Nancy Mullane, interviewed the family at their home in October. The 5 1/2-minute story is available on the National Public
- [The Week for The Best Election Stories](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-week-for-the-best-election-stories/) - This week two years ago was the high point of the political year. The polls, the pundits, and the political articles all talked about the coming Democratic tide that would sweep the true Evil Doers out of office. I couldn't get enough of the feature stories that spotlighted the coming comeuppance facing one sanctimonious, flag-wrapped,
- [Inspiring Election Moments](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/inspiring-election-moments/) - From the candidates' statements in the sample ballot for next month's election. Running for school board: Yes, Dan. I can hardly wait to join "I" in this exciting education journey. I am especially thrilled about this prospect considering that you are an incumbent. I think you are or have been president of the school board.
- [For the Bears](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/for-the-bears/) - Okay, maybe it's not for the Lone Star den dwellers, but I have just helped a Teddy Bear Book site go live. Playing with the graphics and text was a lot more fun than some other of my business sites. I was able to wipe the dust from a couple of stuffed kids on the
- [This Tired Evangelist Can't Resist...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/this-tired-evangelist-cant-resist/) - After my frequent entries about church, plays not to miss, and other indirect prescriptions for living your life, I hesitate to make more suggestions for how you should use your time. I hesitate, but I cannot stop myself from the small nudge that an hour a week watching Battlestar Galactica is well spent. We find it
- [Alison?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/alison/) - You scored as Alison. You're Alison! You are very sweet and pretty, but you don't mind being in the background. You are very well-liked and people want to be on your team. Which Project Runway [3] Designer Are You? created with QuizFarm.com Alison! Alison?? I feel so vanilla! (And, besides, I said I wasn't pretty!)
- [16 Candles?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/16-candles/) - redozdachs and I celebrated our 16th anniversary yesterday. I couldn't find a 1990 picture of us, but this 1991 one is pretty good for a time machine photo: It doesn't feel like 16 years -- that sounds a lot longer than it really has been!
- [Installation of Reverend Gregory L. Stewart](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/installation-of-reverend-gregory-l-stewart/) - Sunday at 4 pm at the First Unitarian Universalist Society (1187 Franklin Street at Geary) The ceremonial start of our new minister's tenure will be celebrated Sunday at 4 pm at our church. California Assembly Member Mark Leno (D - San Francisco) will deliver the Welcome at the installation service. Democratic Candidate for California Secretary of
- [Good Publicity is a Lot of Fun](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/good-publicity-is-a-lot-of-fun/) - Since the article on our minister's family appeared in Sunday's Chronicle I have enjoyed a wonderful flurry of phone greetings and congratulatory emails. The Democratic Candidate for California Secretary of State, State Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach), has called to accept our invitation to the minister's installation ceremony 4 pm Sunday. Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-
- [The Forever Family](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-forever-family/)
- [iTunes 7 and Battlestar Galactica](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/itunes-7-and-battlestar-galactica/) - The latest edition of iTunes (7.0+) by default hides the "Free on iTunes" section on the Apple store for logged on users. Instead, if the store knows who you are, that part of the screen real estate is taken up with the "Just for You" section a la Amazon.com's personalized suggestions. In fact, the free
- [Tracking Your Members of Congress](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tracking-your-members-of-congress/) - Thanks to digg.com I surfed to the Washington Post's comprehensive information on Congress. Great fun for political junkies! The digg.com article touted the ability to get RSS feeds of your member of Congress's votes. There is a button for RSS feeds on the profile page for each Representative and Senator. But, wait! There's more! The individual member
- [Friends Don't Let Friends Vote for Torturers](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/friends-dont-let-friends-vote-for-torturers/) - I have sent in money to the Democratic Congressional Campaign because I believe the American values I grew up with are being attacked by committed, well-meaning ideologues who don't let facts get in the way of their world view. These starry-eyed idealists look only at the ends and are committed to using any means to get them. Unfortunately
- [The Faces of Folsom](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-faces-of-folsom/) - The Folsom Street Fair was small, sleazy, and slightly dangerous-feeling when I first attended 20 or so years ago. Yesterday's beautiful afternoon showcased a much different 2006 edition of the fair. There were more people like the couple on the left (the woman was holding a leather leash that went to the man's dog collar,
- [Kudos for a Coup ](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/kudos-for-a-coup/) - A benevolent dictatorship is a clearly a superior form of government. An all-powerful do-gooder who can cut through deceptions, bureaucracy, and legal technicalities to benefit the people is dream of the righteous and justice-loving people. Most religions put God in this role of benevolent dictator of heaven, while secularists bemoan the impossibility of such mortal
- [Cyrano de Bergerac](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cyrano-de-bergerac/) - August, 2006 Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalCyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (translated and adapted by Anthony Burgess) is a perfect play for my tragedy-loving and comedy-disliking personality. The story is a tear-jerker, full of honor, unrequited love, bravery, more honor, more love, and ultimately death. The title character, played by Marco Barricelli,
- [LJ Picnic 2006](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/lj-picnic-2006/) - A fun gray day in San Francisco! I was glad to be able to stop by the end of the LJ picnic in Dolores Park. I enjoyed seeing in person the icons I have known over the past year. I hear that fuzzygruf will be posting an attendance list and other links. The few photos I took
- [The Merry Wives of Windsor](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-merry-wives-of-windsor/) - August, 2006 Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalThe Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare If you're going to produce an over-the-top romp 400 years after it was written, you should do it with the energy, skill, and good fun that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival gives to Merry Wives. Will's16th Century sit-coms generally do
- [Tom Kelly’s Birthday](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tom-kellys-birthday/) - Tom Kelly celebrated his 50th birthday this afternoon. redozdachs and I stopped by briefly on a break from the computers. Here are some photos of the celebrants on hand as the party revved up. Happy 50th, Tom.
- [We Welcome Your Family to San Francisco -- Now Find Your Kids](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/we-welcome-your-family-to-san-francisco-now-find-your-kids/) - A friend just moved his family -- including school-aged children -- into San Francisco. This week on the first day of classes, when the time came to greet the two children coming home on the school bus after their initial SF school experience, things didn't go quite right. The school bus came, but the kids
- [The Slippery Slope Toward Civility](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-slippery-slope-toward-civility/) - A few years ago I was talking with a friend about a theater review he'd written for a local paper. We both had hated the performance, but his printed comments were, ah..., "nuanced". It took some reading between to discover that the production had problems. Breakfast guest Falstaff (G. Valmont Thomas) in his Captain Morgan PoseFull of righteous
- [The BAR Gets Religion](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-bar-gets-religion/) - Today's edition of the Bay Area Reporter features a news story on my church's new Senior Minister, Rev. Gregory L. Stewart. They report on his comments on Unitarian Universalism and liberal religion, and they also detail his family's journey to San Francisco through Red State land. I am happy to see liberal spirituality mentioned at
- [Time](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/time/) - We were very tired 11 years ago this moment, at 6:55 in the morning. The vet had just left with stern instructions to leave Syntax alone. Let her get some sleep and get some sleep ourselves. We had run through the VCR of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert about five times during the night, never
- [British Ban Carry-On Laptops?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/british-ban-carry-on-laptops/) - The news is reporting that one of the new British airline rules is to disallow liquids and electronic devices such as laptop computers from plane cabins. Last I knew, the baggage claim checks specifically say that there is no liability for a number of things including all electronic devices. About 10 years ago I checked an
- [Palavering Pundits](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/palavering-pundits/) - Today every political expert has an opinion about what Joe Lieberman's fight to retain his Senate seat means. These are the same experts who less than six months ago thought that Lieberman was a safe shoe-in for re-election. Today they are undaunted and in heavy knowledge-dispensing mode.I remember the expert chatter when Tom Ammiano's write-in
- [Caveat Emptor... Still](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/caveat-emptor-still/) - Intuit's Quicken 2007 products were released this week, on August 1st, I think. Rather than defend my upgrade compulsion, let me just admit that I decided I was going to be an early adapter for this year's Home & Business edition. My plan was to buy the CD version this afternoon. I would have except that
- [The Kiss](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-kiss/) - "Mr. Bush has such soft hands I can only image what his lips are like," cracked Steven Colbert after showing the President kiss Senator Joe Lieberman. Colbert's report on Lieberman's primary race caught my attention while I was surfing my newest time-sucking site, youtube.com . For Political junkies: the video
- [Spare the Analysis Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/spare-the-analysis-day/) - Today is the 9th "Spare the Air Day" in the Bay Area. The Air Quality Management District declares this status when they predict that air pollutants will exceed Federal standards unless we take action -- such as reducing driving. The predictions apparently are based on the likelihood of high temperatures and stagnant air. The six Spare
- [Family Photos -- A Lunch at the Cliff House](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/family-photos-a-lunch-at-the-cliff-house/) - Thanks to Uncle Maurie for lunch at the Sutro Restaurant at the Cliff House. Yesterday was a perfect sunny day for great people and fine food! Family photos of the day are online at Flickr.
- [A Shill](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-shill/) - Yesterday's talk by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Commonwealth Club was billed as an address on foreign trade. The governor's 16-minute speech was focused on selling California goods and services abroad and getting foreign companies to set up California outlets. But, his selling went beyond foreign trade missions. He gave the audience 45 minutes to
- [Ted Stevens and Net Neutrality Legislation - Cross Posting](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ted-stevens-and-net-neutrality-legislation-cross-posting/) - Thanks to campn for the posting about Senator Ted Stevens' Internet ignorance. Today he included a link to The Daily Show's segment on Stevens. For those who don't read campn or my business blog with its entry on Senator Stevens, I recommend reading and clicking one of them!
- [The Not Phony War](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-not-phony-war/) - TV news sure makes wars comfortable spectator sports. On-the-spot reporters break in to elaborate on nighttime flashes and siren wails. Speculating pundits, laden with biases, are able to maneuver every new factoid into their preconceived situation synthesis. Not to worry, though, the news network format is not stretched. Commercials are still running. The anchors are
- [Squaredancing Convention and Disney Pictures](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/squaredancing-convention-and-disney-pictures/) - We're back focusing on real life after our fantasy adventure at California Disney and the IAGSDC convention last week. Pictures to share: The Squaredancing photo set has views of fuzzygruf and double_ohsteven (featured in this picture), and there are also some shots of redozdachs, a bit of otterpop58, and many non-LJ'ers from Midnight Squares and beyond. (Note:
- [Pride 2006](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/pride-2006/) - Pictures of friends and the street from Pride 2006. (I think they're work safe, but there is some of the beefcake that was displayed in public yesterday.)
- [Saundra Bryant in Noe Valley](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/saundra-bryant-in-noe-valley/) - Sandie Bryant called for the C3B class Harlan has been nurturing since January. Wonderful, exhausting, humbling, exhilarating, fun! fuzzygruf (squaredancing) and redozdachs were 2 of the ten dancers. More photos.
- [One if By Land, 862 if By Electrons](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/one-if-by-land-862-if-by-electrons/) - It's not exactly Paul Revere-worthy, but I am pleased to see that the Chronicle's story on AT&T's new privacy policy that I submitted at digg.com has hit a nerve. It reached the front page of the site this afternoon. This is only story I've sent in to digg. Kinda cool.
- [AT&T Says it Owns Records of Your Phone Calls and Internet Viewing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/att-says-it-owns-records-of-your-phone-calls-and-internet-viewing/) - David Lazarus reports in today's Chronicle that "AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it 'to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.'" If customers don't stop using AT&T's
- [The Glass Menagerie](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-glass-menagerie/) - Berkeley, CA at Berkeley Repertory TheaterThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams What a disappointment! If Berkeley Rep had been the first producer of the young struggling playwright's work, we would never know the name Tennessee Williams. As it is, people who attended Berkeley Rep's travesty have not made the acquaintance of this powerful play. Figuring
- [For the Love of Dolly/Camp Michael Jackson](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/for-the-love-of-dollycamp-michael-jackson/) - When fans substitute their idol's public life for their own real life, the result can be mesmerizing, starkly depressing, banally weird, and even occasionally salvific. Yesterday's double bill of For the Love of Dolly and Camp Michael Jackson gave the audience more creepy, revelatory, and celebratory moments than reasonable. The afternoon show's two documentaries, part
- [PowerPoint 201](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/powerpoint-201/) - The President says our plan is to train Iraqis and to turn over security operations to the local forces. In furtherance of that goal, in late March the U.S. Army commander at Camp Taji decided to involve the Iraqi unit it was training to help clear a near-by city of insurgents. According to an article in today's
- [Coffee reduces risk of cirrhosis from too much alcohol](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/coffee-reduces-risk-of-cirrhosis-from-too-much-alcohol/) - From AP: "Coffee may counteract alcohol's poisonous effects on the liver and help prevent cirrhosis, researchers say. In a study of more than 125,000 people, one cup of coffee per day cut the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis by 20 percent. Four cups per day reduced the risk by 80 percent." This is the kind of
- [And So It Begins...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/and-so-it-begins/) - Tropical Storm ONE is ready to deliver 10-20 inches of rain to western Cuba. It probably will become Tropical Storm Alberto later today or tomorrow. Anyone want to guess how many named storms we'll have this year after last year's record 27?
- [How Computers Work](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/how-computers-work/) - Pure fun, work-safe picture which explains a lot. How Computers Work
- [Photos of the Pack](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/photos-of-the-pack/) - Our youngest dogs, "the puppies", turn 11 in August. (Their aunt Audit is in the picture above.) There's nothing like having your children age to make you feel old... or at least that's what my mother told me when I was approaching my 30th birthday. We used today's rare sun in the backyard to update our family portraits. The
- ["An Inconvenient Truth"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/an-inconvenient-truth/) - Roger Ebert has gone all out praising Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times column. I have been vaguely aware of the documentary and put it on my "kinda want to see it" list. Ebert's mention of it makes me bump it up to "will see". "In 39 years, I have never written
- [Squaredancing Convention Email](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/squaredancing-convention-email/) - Just received email from the Wish Upon a Thar organizers:Marriot and Clarion Hotel Reservations ... Yes, both hotels are now full. Need to share a Room? The Wish Upon A Thar roommate BBS is up and running. Login at the upper right of the convention home page (www.wishuponathar.org ), and the link to the Roomshare Bulletin Board
- [A Fiery Welcome Home](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-fiery-welcome-home/) - Shortly after we arrived home from Oregon Tuesday we smelled smoke and saw clouds of it billowing over a neighbor's house a few backyards over.After a moments hesitation over which of our many phones was the closest to grab and dial 9-1-1, I listened to one round of "we're sorry we're busy, please do not
- [The Importance of Being Earnest](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-importance-of-being-earnest/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The farce at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this season relies on word play instead of physical humor and timing. Still, the company manages to over-act and put on stuffy English accents to keep alive their tradition of doing b r o a d comedy.
- [Intimate Apparel](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/intimate-apparel/) - Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Intimate Apparel by Lynn NottageI got teary-eyed watching Esther Mills and Mr. Marks appreciate the swath of fine fabric, Yes, their unrolling of a piece of cloth was that emotional, complex, and full. I didn't feel manipulated. There were no "Love means never having to say you're sorry"
- [A Number](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-number/) - San Francisco, CA American Conservatory Theatera number by Caryl Churchill It's not about cloning! It's about a father and 20 sons, 19 of whom who were cloned in a desperate do-over attempt at parenting by a drunken, failing father whose wife had committed suicide and left her husband and their two-year-old son. It's about intense
- [Sleaze with Insight and Wit](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sleaze-with-insight-and-wit/) - Former San Francisco Mayor, former Speaker of the California Assembly, and therefore formerly the most politically powerful man in the state, Willie Brown entertained a good-sized crowd at the Commonwealth Club last night. Billed as his annual speech on political trends, Willie put on a face-paced, witty, informative, and satisfying liberal tour de force which kept us
- [I Don't Want an Apple...  I Don't Want an Apple...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-dont-want-an-apple-i-dont-want-an-apple/) - ... but, I would like to create podcasts for my clients who can invest the time in creating regular content. And, I'd like to play with audio and maybe some video. Yesterday I went to the Apple Store downtown for their demo in podcast creation using Garageband. Damn. The software they showed allowed for easy
- [I'm the Decider](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/im-the-decider/) - Protest song from Arianna's site: "I'm the Decider" (Work safe. Clever. Okay, vicious. But, mixed ad hominem message: egghead Bush laments not having a brain. Fun anyway. Thanks, Hollis.)
- [Cross Post to an Image](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cross-post-to-an-image/) - Check out profkampf's daily gift image. It does it for me.
- [Tookie Limbaugh](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tookie-limbaugh/) - Rush Limbaugh flared up in the news this weekend. Despite the dead-news-time scheduling of the announcement of the plea bargain letting him off the doctor-shopping charge in Florida, the second-string weekend editors of the mass media managed find the story on the wires and to trot out file footage detailing the drug consumption crimes. The reportorial tone
- [Living in a Small Town](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/living-in-a-small-town/) - Coming home from a business mixer about 8:30 last night, we took Market to Castro. We were inadvertently trailing a police car which had passed us with red lights and siren a mile before, quieted and slowed down, and started preening again as we followed him into the left turn lane. Castro was blocked off
- [UP](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/up/) - Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalUP by Bridget Carpenter After Larry Walters had his 15 minutes of fame flying a balloon-lifted lawn chair from his LA-area home in 1982, he dropped from the cultural radar. After the talk shows and the one-trick motivational speeches were over, the man still had a life to live.
- [Earth Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/earth-day/) - Kids filled Ashland's North Mountain Park to celebrate Earth Day this afternoon. There were lots of children-accessible hands-on activities focused on the environment and eco-friendly ways of living. I remember the first Earth Day which was filled with urgency and a '60's sense of sea change. Today's celebration was a good mutation of the original. More festive and
- [The Diary of Anne Frank](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-diary-of-anne-frank/) - Real life is too full of happiness and fun for me to want to see most comedies and other frivolous stuff on stage. Anne Frank is a perfect topic for a theater production: the horror is tightly wound and is inescapable, and it looms from the opening moments. The dread in Anne's saga lends itself to
- [Painting the Hydrant Gold](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/painting-the-hydrant-gold/) - On April 19, 1906 this fire hydrant at 20th and Church was one of the few in the city with water. The people fighting the fires ran hose lines hundreds of feet from this corner to buildings threatened by the conflagration. The fire line stood. The Mission was saved. Each year The City honors the 1906 firefighters
- [April 18, 2006, 5:14 am](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/april-18-2006-514-am/) - We got up to the sound of church bells and fire sirens sounding a 100th anniversary commemoration of the great fire and earthquake. The City uses all occasions as an excuse for a party. Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke of the city's ability to celebrate the tenacity of human spirit. Then the Major interviewed all of the
- [TiVo Wins One](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tivo-wins-one/) - TiVo won a $73+ million patent judgment from EchoStar (Dish Network) today. (See TiVo story in Bloomberg.com or in Reuters) TiVo has lost hundreds of millions of dollars while delivering a wonderful product. Their competition just took their research and ideas and treated it like it was in the public domain. Today's jury decision gives TiVo
- [The Membership Issues a Call](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-membership-issues-a-call/) - The Members of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco this afternoon issued a call to the Reverend Gregory L. Stewart to serve the Society as its Senior Minister! The vote on calling Greg was 216 to 6, or 95% yes. Great stuff by me. He'll start working with us August 1st, and his
- [Cooking the Cosmic Muffin](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/cooking-the-cosmic-muffin/) - "Cooking the Cosmic Muffin", "Fashions in Anti-War Protests", and "SF Cures Family's Dorian Gray Syndrome" are the featured articles in today's church's newsletter. If you've ever been curious about what Unitarian Universalists dis-believe...
- [They're Here!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/theyre-here/) - After ten months of working on the Search Committee, we're down to the final 8 days! Yesterday I greeted the minister and his family as they arrived after a soggy six-hour drive from Reno. Now the Congregation gets to meet, talk with, and grill Greg and make its decision whether or not he's a keeper.
- [Hopeful Sign or Wishful Thinking?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/hopeful-sign-or-wishful-thinking/) - Yesterday afternoon the Commonwealth Club phoned to tell me that next Wednesday's scheduled address by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had been canceled. The speech had just been added to the calendar, so the change was sudden. I figured that government officials have flexible schedules, and didn't think much about it. redozdachs heard about the change and
- [Couldn't  they Afford a Media Consultant?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/couldnt-they-afford-a-media-consultant/) - This AP photo scanned from yesterdays' Chronicle shows the danger of allowing your top managers face the press without proper media training. A good consultant would have had the Cardinal practice appropriate kissing before the big event in front of the camera.
- [Our Recommendation for Minister](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/our-recommendation-for-minister/) - For the past 10 months I have been on the San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Society's Ministerial Search Committee. I have been reading hundreds of pages of sermons, philosophical statements, and background information from 34 ministers in the effort to identify the one who is the best match for our congregation. The Committee has conducted telephone interviews and reference
- [Straight? Unhappy?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/straight-unhappy/) - One of my co-religionists is the attorney for a Santa Rosa blogger who created the parody billboard (left). On March 1, the blogger received a cease-and-desist letter from Exodus International, a religious group that promotes "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ." The original image on the Exodus billboard bore the words, "Gay? Unhappy?" and
- [Outsourcing the Presidency](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/outsourcing-the-presidency/) - I hadn't seen this before.... Subject: Outsourcing the Presidency Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:10:07Congress today announced that the office of President of the United States of America will be outsourced to India as of April 12, 2006. The move is being made to save the President's $400,000 annual salary, and also a record $521
- [Not Ready to Make Nice](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/not-ready-to-make-nice/) - Wow! Powerful political personal new song by the Dixie Chicks. You can read it and hear it on the Chicks' site. Thanks to campn for blogging about it and them. (And, I especially like his "following the bouncing flag" concept in one of the follow-on comment strings.)
- ["Everything You Always Wanted to Ask About Transsexuals But Were Afraid to Ask."](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/everything-you-always-wanted-to-ask-about-transsexuals-but-were-afraid-to-ask/) - The Chron gave Theatre Rhino's Family Jewels: The Making of Veronica Klaus a second hugely positive commentary in the Datebook today. The story by Edward Guthmann is the first of a series on transsexuals and the transgender community. Guthman quips: 'Family Jewels,' playing at Theatre Rhinoceros until April 1, might be subtitled "Everything You Always
- [The Anti-What? March](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-anti-what-march/) - Only 10,000 people rallied against the war today in San Francisco. "Only" because that number sounds low given the widespread distress with the Administration's war execution and the go-it-alone tone of the foreign policy. Neither plays well in this progressive city with our strong internationalist community. The live coverage of the speeches and march reminded
- [I Love Big Brother](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-love-big-brother/) - Low-key, reasonable, and slightly cynical were not the adjectives I expected to use to describe Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff when I started off to the Commonwealth Club speech this morning. He was just those things. Chertoff several times himself brought up how the government could make the country much safer, but only by a
- [Belief-o-Matic](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/belief-o-matic/) - Folks are showing up at our church saying that they found us by taking an online quiz. Statements like that bring out my old fogginess. I see someone hunched over a keyboard, working through a meme, and discovering that they channel Star Trek's Captain Kirk. Then they click to the next test and find out
- [Vacationing in Bend Oregon](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/vacationing-in-bend-oregon/) - My Oregon friends tell me that Bend, in the central part of the state, is a new hot spot for outdoor recreation. Hiking, skiing, fishing, golfing... all kinds of healthy, outdoorsy stuff going on there! This week I published version 1 of a web site for a Bend vacation rental home. I think the site looks
- [The Chron Loves My Client's Latest...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-chron-loves-my-clients-latest/) - Kudos to Theatre Rhino for getting a nice mention in the Chronicle's SF Gate for their current production, Family Jewels: The Making of Veronica Klaus. The Chron is notoriously fickle and doesn't show up for a lot of local theater events. Many productions and theaters aren't reviewed simply because the Chron doesn't even send a reviewer.
- [Selling the Country -- Part XXXXVII](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/selling-the-country-part-xxxxvii/) - I find it especially disconcerting to have to pigeon-Indian my way through my customer service request when I'm calling an iconic American institution. But, "Phyllis" at Smithsonian magazine was not a native English-language speaker. It kinda feels like everything is for sale and we're even outsourcing our culture.
- [What Would Muhammad Do?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/what-would-muhammad-do/) - I am not a big fan of the self-righteous sport of publicly answering "What would Jesus do?" to a host of modern issues. Too obviously spiritual thought is glaringly missing from the self-serving pronouncement that follows. But, I did find myself wondering this morning "What would Muhammad do?" I am no student of Islam. But,
- [Live Journal Features 101](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/live-journal-features-101/) - I guess if I read that Scrapbook offers "Full integration with your LiveJournal" enough times, I'll get it. Even if big words sometimes puzzle me. The latest version of Semagic got me to figure it out. The version change notice touted the ability to copy an image to the PC clipboard and paste it into
- [The Vice President Has a Gun](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-vice-president-has-a-gun/) - "The Late Show With David Letterman" (CBS)"Good news ladies and gentleman, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction … It's Dick Cheney."* * *"We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney."* * *"Honestly, I don't know what all of the fuss is about. What's more American than shooting your hunting buddy
- [When I Wish Upon a Hotel Room](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/when-i-wish-upon-a-hotel-room/) - Thanks to fuzzygruf for mentioning his difficulty getting a hotel room for this year's squaredancing convention in Anaheim. After reading his warnings, we snagged rooms this morning for June 28 through July 4th. Already some of the dates available when fuzzygruf called yesterday were gone (June 26 and 27th). When Hollis tried the 800-number (800 228-9290) this afternoon, the
- [Freegate](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/freegate/) - It is a criminal offense to use the Internet to "incite subversion," or to "divulge state secrets"... The laws "safeguard the security of the State and the public interest." I can almost hear Vice President Chaney's voice argue that the President has the Constitutional authority -- and the moral responsibility -- to vigorously enforce these reasonable
- [Happy Birthday, redozdachs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/happy-birthday-redozdachs/)
- [Freedom to Marry Week, February 12-18](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/freedom-to-marry-week-february-12-18/) - Who knew? I found out when I received email about it from my church's headquarters in Boston. Unitarian Universalists were lead plaintiffs in the Massachusetts case that legalized same-sex marriages there. The denomination's general assemblies have come out in favor of marriage equality, and our ministers do lobbying for the issue around the country. The denomination's
- ["Macs Killed My Inner Child"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/macs-killed-my-inner-child/) - Google Video is featuring Why Macs Suck by Hunter Cressall. Great fun.... especially for those of us who have been pummeled about the head and shoulders by Macophiles ever since they gave up beating the drum for their Betamax players.
- [Can the Board Please Keep John Swett School Open?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/can-the-board-please-keep-john-swett-school-open/) - Dear Supervisor Dufty, My church, the First Unitarian Universalist Society at Franklin and Geary, houses and supports a free, after-school program for 24 students from John Swett elementary. The after-school program, Up On Top, has been going on for several years and keeps kids from very-low-income safe and nurtured after their classes. If these kids are transferred,
- [Domestic Partners](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/domestic-partners/) - Gill Gross on the 3 pm ABC network radio news reported on a state supreme court (Florida?? I wasn't listening) ruling that said that the state university had to provide domestic partners with certain benefits. The only hitch, the reporter said, was that the partners had to prove that they were having sex. Gross concluded, "Fortunately there
- [Theater Rhino is Looking for a Mac](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/theater-rhino-is-looking-for-a-mac/)
- [Except it's not Funny](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/except-its-not-funny/) - The old joke has the man who murdered both of his parents beg the court for mercy because he's an orphan. Clarence Ray Allen's legal pleas remind me of that black junior high school humor. Allen is asking courts to declare that executing an old, sick man is cruel and unusual punishment. Of course, he's
- [It's Over](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/its-over/) - I'm ready to pronounce the holidays officially over. Drinking mint tea, listening to the light rain on the skylight, cozy on an otherwise damp and darkish morning, I have gone through the stack of late-arriving cards. The ones mailed on the 23rd, 24th, and even later. The ones that didn't make our Christmas Eve opening
- [De-Motivation](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/de-motivation/) - One of my church Search Committee cohorts suggested a number of these online de-motivational posters to, ah... help us through our work. A few looked familiar, but most were surprises. Check out the whole selection of de-motivational aids.
- [The Crimson Kiss](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-crimson-kiss/) - Who better than to explore the loneliness and angst of life than those who can live forever? In Lestat, we learn about friendship and betrayal from Anne Rice's title-character vampire in a musical as up-beat as Carousel with a family as warm and friendly as The Sopranos. What fun! Lestat features yearning neediness, deep betrayal, and
- [Weather Wimp Crisis](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/weather-wimp-crisis/) - It's a blustery rain storm. In areas near streams and rivers, there will be traditional flooding. Mud will slide. KBC radio has been in emergency "storm watch" mode. For much of this early morning they've been commercial free. One of their reporters lost his personal SUV in flood waters and had to break out the
- [What A Minister Needs to Know](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/what-a-minister-needs-to-know/) - I am on my church's search committee for a new minister. After we narrow down our list of candidates to four or five, we are flying them out to San Francisco and interviewing them on separate weekends. Part of the committee's job, of course, is to get them to fall in love with The City.
- [Family Flickr](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/family-flickr/) - So many ways to share pictures! This morning I tried Flickr . It has no way to order the pictures the way I want them. On the other hand, they do have handy links to let people order DVDs or hard copy prints. I fought Roxio Easy CD Creator 7 last weekend trying for a
- [Christmas Speed](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/christmas-speed/) - Christmas is hitting me later and later each year, an inverse movement to the increasing early start of the commercial festivities which now begin their breathless “Buy!” message somewhere around Halloween. This year the holiday came about 7:30 Christmas Eve morning. redozdachs, his brother Ric (sic ) from Reno, and I walked into Sear’s, the
- [When an ISP and Hosting Service Won't Play Nicely...](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/when-an-isp-and-hosting-service-wont-play-nicely/) - I cannot update websites hosted at Webmasters.com from my RCN cable ISP service. We have been updating these websites from RCN since we started RCN service about six months ago. Other combinations of ISP's and hosting services work just fine. Any techie detectives like a challenge or have ideas? Starting at approximately 9 pm Saturday, automated FTP uploads
- [Clean Gene](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/clean-gene/) - The chirpy ABC radio newsreader's lead story was the death of comic Richard Pryor. Only after playing a taped bit of a Pryor routine did ABC segue to a mention that former Senator Eugene McCarthy died at 89. I don't mean to minimize the death of Richard Pryor. Yet, the entertainment-focused priorities of a supposed
- [Nerd Test](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/nerd-test/) - It seems that when it's time to ease back into the land of the living and blogging, one of these goodies lights the way back to the LJ home (this time with the guidance of airporter). I am gratified at my relatively high rating. I don't think I deserve it.
- [Dell Hell - Day 10](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/dell-hell-day-10/) - The windmill tilting crusade of trying to get Dell to deliver on its high-end next-day warranty service remains an on-going drama. (Updates to the log will go http://www.livejournal.com/users/ozdachs/41568.html ). This post is my misery-love-company entry. I never heard of "Dell Hell" before this week, for example. Now I know that there are legions of suffers.
- [Ready for Hurricane Season 2006](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ready-for-hurricane-season-2006/) - Today marks the end of the 2005 hurricane season. Starting tomorrow any storms will go unnamed until the 2006 storm season starts June 1st. We've had a record 26 named storms. Before this year I had no idea what happened when we ran through the list of 21 Atlantic storm names -- we'd never done
- [Ways Out of Interactive Voice Response Hell](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ways-out-of-interactive-voice-response-hell/) - In a misguided focus on cost, service companies make it difficult for callers to reach live human beings. The philosophical issues involved in erecting barriers to service is a subject of another posting. This entry merely points to a solution. Paul English has posted the numbers to push to reach live humans at many different
- [Why Blog When I Can Spend Time on Hold with Dell in India Instead - 12/5 Fixed](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/why-blog-when-i-can-spend-time-on-hold-with-dell-in-india-instead-125-fixed/) - For a solid week -- since last Tuesday, 11/22 -- I have been trying to have Dell repair my notebook computer which is covered under "next day on-site repair". Tuesday I spent the half-hour in queue and went through the fairly useless fault isolation procedure. The Indian technician diagnosed a dead motherboard. Wednesday, a local
- [Back to Business](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/back-to-business/) - I told my business clients and contacts that I would resume a regular publication schedule for my on-line newsletter. This incarnation has short articles which point to the blog I started up as biz_ozdachs. I said I'd publish twice a month. I thought the email/blog was a great idea until the reality of the need
- [Boomers Turn 60](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/boomers-turn-60/) - We're back from 7 days in Puerto Vallarta where we celebrated a milestone birthday with Hollis . She's shown here with the Newsweek magazine cover for the week. The headline story is "Boomers Turn 60". She's in the vanguard of that movement! Happy Birthday to Hollis (11/18)! Thanks to my LJ friends for the posts
- [Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/antiwar-sermon-brings-irs-warning/) - All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena risks losing its tax-exempt status because of a former rector's remarks from the pulpit in 2004, according to the Los Angeles Times. In his sermon, the rector imagined Jesus participating in a political debate with then-candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry. The clergyman said that "good people of
- [I am a Dog Person](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-am-a-dog-person/) - If I needed another reason to pick canines over felines, I could use this blog on Why being into cats is essentially the same as being into psychotic tweakers. Our pack gives it 4 paws up.
- [Raves for Rhino](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/raves-for-rhino/) - Theatre Rhino's current production Missives received a very positive review from the Chronicle. The Chron, like the commercial child Mikey, normally hates everything Rhino so this review is especially sweet.
- [I Voted!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-voted/) - We went to City Hall on Saturday to cast our absentee ballots because redozdachs was leaving Sunday for a three-day business conference in Scottsdale. Voting was quick and it felt good. I am sure that there were at least one or two issues which we didn't cancel out each other's vote. Special elections traditionally have a low
- [Direct Democracy San Francisco Style](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/direct-democracy-san-francisco-style/) - My San Francisco ballot recommendations. Your results may vary. Prop A - Community College Bonds - NO.The proposition lists a laundry list of "possible" things they'll do with the bond money, but doesn't prioritize or guarantee that they'll do any of them. Moreover, the college board of trustees had 2 NO votes against putting this wording on
- [I Will Survive](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/i-will-survive/) - Click for some Thanksgiving Disco
- [Scary Dachshunds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/scary-dachshunds/) - One of our friends sent this picture from a Williamsport, PA Halloween celebration. Cute. But our pack are longhair miniature dachshunds not smooths. And, no one in our family does drag or turns 50-cent tricks.
- [Beta Testing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/beta-testing/) - There's something disquieting in the thought that God/Mother Nature/The Cosmic Muffin is merely preparing for a formal release of a real hurricane season. I don't think that beta testing is really necessary — tropical storm formation and devastation seem to be perfected.
- [The Rhino Roams](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/the-rhino-roams/) - I have been working on Theatre Rhinoceros's web site for about six weeks, and have a first edition ready for comments and suggestions. I had hoped to gradually improve the site they already had. Unfortunately, the free hosting service for non-profits had a server crash just as I was about to start work. Not only
- [Hurricanes, Ho!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/hurricanes-ho/) - A true relation of my weather-worried grandmother, I am still scarfing up information on hurricanes. I find the carnival-like, "Oh Boy, it's going to be a disaster!" commentary on television distasteful. But, I also find myself surfing for details. Some favorite factiods: The list of hurricane names is posted at on a government NASA page.
- [Welcome Tropical Storm Alpha](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/welcome-tropical-storm-alpha/) - If only my grandmother were still alive! She'd been in nervous-weather heaven this hurricane season. Although she lived just south of Boston in not exactly prime hurricane territory, she tracked every storm and was sure that each was going to make straight for Massachusetts and do us in. At the start of the hurricane season,
- [Ad Hominem Ad Nauseam](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/ad-hominem-ad-nauseam/) - There's something uncomfortably narrow and unsatisfying about the ads for several of the California ballot propositions. The media spots don't bother to argue their case on the issue, but instead urge "No" votes on the initiatives mainly because who's backing them. That's a mistake, both philosophically and practically, I think. But, what happens if there's
- [Delay-ed Justice](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/delay-ed-justice/) - You gotta admire a complete political sociopath who thinks only of spin, no matter the occasion. Tom Delay's smiling Harris County Sheriff mug shot shows a broad smile suitable for a high school yearbook. No political opponents can use this mug shot in the next campaign, eh? As MSNBC pointed out in their story, Delay
- [Back to the Blog!](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/back-to-the-blog/) - Thanks to, and with redozdachs, we had a great trip to Seattle. The A/C fly-in gave me a few deluded moments where I felt adequate at C3A. The fly-in dinners, drinks, and conversations were comfortable. And, our anniversary night Sunday at the Inn at the Market was perfect! But, enough about me.A week without reading
- [Off to Seattle for the AC Fly-In](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/off-to-seattle-for-the-ac-fly-in/) - We're off for Advanced and Challenge Fly-In in Seattle this morning. A great way to spend a birthday and anniversary. Thanks for the posted wishes!
- [August Wilson, 1945-2005](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/august-wilson-1945-2005/)
- [Great Cause, Awful Rally](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/great-cause-awful-rally/) - Friday's protest against Governor Schwarzenegger's veto of the marriage equality bill turned out to be another excuse for the Laundry-List activists to get together and chant the same slogans they chant at every other venue with a public address system. The order of the slogans may have been changed to honor the supposed purpose of
- [A Pew in the J-Church of Christ Congregation](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/a-pew-in-the-j-church-of-christ-congregation/) - redozdachs and I ventured to Dolores Park today for the LJ picnic. We enjoyed meeting/re-meeting folks! The sermon was a special treat, too! About 20 pictures of the day are posted in a gallery. (If the captions offend anyone, please let me know -- that's not the intention!)
- [March Tonight to Protest the Veto](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/march-tonight-to-protest-the-veto/) - from LGBT Center email.... Dear Friends, It is time to take to the streets! Join us Friday September 30 at 5 pm at Harvey Milk Plaza (Market and Castro) for a march to The Center. We must show Governor Schwarzenegger that we will not tolerate his veto of our civil rights.
- [For Harvey's Kids](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/for-harveys-kids/) - The sensitive-youth coming-out-story books that validated me in my 20's were furtive purchases made in the small sociology sections of progressive book stores. There has been a lot of wine drunk talking with friends my age about how we each thought we were the only person in our high school or neighborhood who felt that
- [Sunday Morning Walks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/sunday-morning-walks/) - It's a gorgeous fall day -- finally -- in The City. Bright sun. No fog. Clean. On the way home from the gym in the fresh, quiet morning morning I saw four pedestrians scattered throughout the neighborhood. Three were obviously focused on their cell phones, engrossed in conversations, oblivious to the beautiful world. The fourth
- [Community Response to Governor's Action on Marriage Equality Bill](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/community-response-to-governors-action-on-marriage-equality-bill/) - From the SF LGBT Community Center and Equality California... PREPARE TO GATHER FOR COMMUNITY RESPONSE WHEN GOVERNOR ACTS ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL Thank you for your tireless efforts to convince Governor Schwarzenegger to sign AB 849 and make California the first state to enact marriage equality through legislative action. The day the Governor acts --
- [What's a UU?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/whats-a-uu/) - Unitarian Universalists don't have a creedal test of membership. This leads to people ask "Well, what do you believe?" And, it leads to lots of retorts, such as, "Well we can believe anything except that we, personally, are God." There are lots more jokes and cute lines, and all with elements of truth, I'm sure.

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- [Aeonium Schwarzkopf](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/aeonium-schwarzkopf/)
- [bush](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/bush/)
- [nature. bushes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/nature-bushes/)
- [sunrise](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sunrise/)
- [Noe Valley](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/noe-valley/)
- [nature. flowers](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/nature-flowers/)
- [yucca](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/yucca/)
- [orchid](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/orchid/)
- [Iris](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/iris/)
- [birds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/birds/)
- [pigeon](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pigeon/)
- [nature. Noe Valley](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/nature-noe-valley/)
- [crabs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/crabs/)
- [shellfish](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/shellfish/)
- [tidepool](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/tidepool/)
- [Mission Rock](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/mission-rock/)
- [orchids](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/orchids/)
- [Pioneer Park](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pioneer-park/)
- [Coit Tower](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/coit-tower/)
- [Segway Tour](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/segway-tour/)
- [Telegraph Hill Road](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/telegraph-hill-road/)
- [Squirrel](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/squirrel/)
- [Maritime National Historical Park](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/maritime-national-historical-park/)
- [Earth Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/earth-day/)
- [Jade plant](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/jade-plant/)
- [LGBT refugees](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/lgbt-refugees/)
- [Pulse](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pulse/)
- [Mass Shootings](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/mass-shootings/)
- [safety](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/safety/)
- [Islam](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/islam/)
- [plays](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/plays/)
- [mystical](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/mystical/)
- [Trump](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/trump/)
- [sexual assault](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sexual-assault/)
- [sexual harassment](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sexual-harassment/)
- [political correctness](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/political-correctness/)
- [exercise](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/exercise/)
- [gym](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/gym/)
- [cardio](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/cardio/)
- [core body](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/core-body/)
- [sit-ups](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sit-ups/)
- [weight machines](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/weight-machines/)
- [Fitness SF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/fitness-sf/)
- [Doug Wilcoxen](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/doug-wilcoxen/)
- [protest songs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/protest-songs/)
- [anti-war songs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/anti-war-songs/)
- [Inauguration speech](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/inauguration-speech/)
- [revolution](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/revolution/)
- [frustrated expectations](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/frustrated-expectations/)
- [Thomas Theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/thomas-theater/)
- [4 stars](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/4-stars/)
- [1 star](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/1-star/)
- [racism](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/racism/)
- [Asian](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/asian/)
- [4.5 stars](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/4-5-stars/)
- [poetry](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/poetry/)
- [August Wilson](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/august-wilson/)
- [Kevin Kennerly](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/kevin-kennerly/)
- [UNIVERSES](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/universes/)
- [UniSon](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/unison/)
- [Pride 2017](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pride-2017/)
- [#resist](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/resist/)
- [#SFPrideResist](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sfprideresist/)
- [Theatre Rhino](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/theatre-rhino/)
- [Priscilla](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/priscilla/)
- [Play Rating 0](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-rating-0/)
- [Ted Lange](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ted-lange/)
- [Play Rating 4](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-rating-4/)
- [comedy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/comedy/)
- [Muslim](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/muslim/)
- [sexism](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sexism/)
- [theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/theater/)
- [Othello](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/othello/)
- [telenovela](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/telenovela/)
- [Mexican culture](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/mexican-culture/)
- [soap opera](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/soap-opera/)
- [#DestinyOfDesireOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/destinyofdesireosf/)
- [#OthelloOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/othelloosf/)
- [play reviews](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-reviews/)
- [Sense and Sensibility](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sense-and-sensibility/)
- [#SenseAndSensibilityOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/senseandsensibilityosf/)
- [scenes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/scenes/)
- [Transformers](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/transformers/)
- [legos](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/legos/)
- [Henry V](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/henry-v/)
- [four stars](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/four-stars/)
- [#HenryVOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/henryvosf/)
- [4 1/2 out of 5 stars](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/4-1-2-out-of-5-stars/)
- [American Conservatory Theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/american-conservatory-theater/)
- [San Francisco theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/san-francisco-theater/)
- [ACT](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/act/)
- [Vietgone](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/vietgone/)
- [Qui Nguyen](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/qui-nguyen/)
- [Vietnam](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/vietnam/)
- [war](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/war/)
- [xenophobia](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/xenophobia/)
- [Oklahoma](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/oklahoma/)
- [Rogers and Hammerstein](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/rogers-and-hammerstein/)
- [queer](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/queer/)
- [gender non-conforming](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/gender-non-conforming/)
- [gay marriage](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/gay-marriage/)
- [same-sex marriage](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/same-sex-marriage/)
- [musicals](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/musicals/)
- [#OklahomaOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/oklahomaosf/)
- [Sessions](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sessions/)
- [Evil](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/evil/)
- [Big Lie](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/big-lie/)
- [breaking apart families](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/breaking-apart-families/)
- [asylum](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/asylum/)
- [children](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/children/)
- [Asian plays](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/asian-plays/)
- [Royal Shakespeare Company](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/royal-shakespeare-company/)
- [William Dao](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/william-dao/)
- [Shakespeare](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/shakespeare/)
- [self-indulgent theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/self-indulgent-theater/)
- [3 stars](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/3-stars/)
- [#BookOfWillOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/bookofwillosf/)
- [#WayTheMountainMovedOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/waythemountainmovedosf/)
- [American Revolutions](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/american-revolutions/)
- [commissioned](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/commissioned/)
- [two stars](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/two-stars/)
- [dachshunds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dachshunds/)
- [whelping](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/whelping/)
- [puppies2018](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppies2018/)
- [Zenith](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/zenith/)
- [Bishop Ranch](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/bishop-ranch/)
- [Day 2](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-2/)
- [puppies](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppies/)
- [Metro](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/metro/)
- [weight loss](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/weight-loss/)
- [bottle feeding](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/bottle-feeding/)
- [zenith puppies](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/zenith-puppies/)
- [Zenith's puppies](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/zeniths-puppies/)
- [Zenith uppies](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/zenith-uppies/)
- [weight](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/weight/)
- [weighing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/weighing/)
- [puppy weight gain](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppy-weight-gain/)
- [Supreme Count](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/supreme-count/)
- [Brett Kavanaugh](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/brett-kavanaugh/)
- [Senator Susan Collins](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/senator-susan-collins/)
- [alcoholic](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/alcoholic/)
- [drunk](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/drunk/)
- [respect](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/respect/)
- [eyes open](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/eyes-open/)
- [Day 18](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-18/)
- [Day 20](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-20/)
- [Day 19](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-19/)
- [photography](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/photography/)
- [focus](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/focus/)
- [Day 21](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-21/)
- [Day 22](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-22/)
- [Day 23](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-23/)
- [Day 24](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-24/)
- [vet](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/vet/)
- [checkup](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/checkup/)
- [Day 25](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-25/)
- [Day 26](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-26/)
- [Day 27](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-27/)
- [SeQueL](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sequel/)
- [Apex](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/apex/)
- [Play Rating 3](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-rating-3/)
- [Love's Lobor's Lost](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/loves-lobors-lost/)
- [Play rankings](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-rankings/)
- [OSF 2018 season](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/osf-2018-season/)
- [Day 28](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-28/)
- [solid food](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/solid-food/)
- [visitors](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/visitors/)
- [Tony Loncich](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/tony-loncich/)
- [Day 29](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-29/)
- [whelping box](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/whelping-box/)
- [Day 32](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-32/)
- [bricks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/bricks/)
- [socialization](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/socialization/)
- [Charles Sterck](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/charles-sterck/)
- [Carrie Steere-Salazar](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/carrie-steere-salazar/)
- [play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play/)
- [tennis ball](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/tennis-ball/)
- [3 pounds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/3-pounds/)
- [Halloween](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/halloween/)
- [sun](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sun/)
- [remote control](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/remote-control/)
- [Day](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day/)
- [puppies2019](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppies2019/)
- [Day 41](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-41/)
- [Day 43](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-43/)
- [Jill Chase](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/jill-chase/)
- [Day 42](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-42/)
- [Day 44](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-44/)
- [Day 45](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-45/)
- [nursing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/nursing/)
- [Kathleen Quenneville](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/kathleen-quenneville/)
- [Diane Allen](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/diane-allen/)
- [Vanessa Rush Southern](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/vanessa-rush-southern/)
- [kibble](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/kibble/)
- [Aurora](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/aurora/)
- [puppy names](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppy-names/)
- [call names](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/call-names/)
- [Day 57](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-57/)
- [Basil](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/basil/)
- [Day 58](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-58/)
- [kitchen](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/kitchen/)
- [dog training](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dog-training/)
- [toys](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/toys/)
- [Dachs in a box](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dachs-in-a-box/)
- [puppies 2018](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppies-2018/)
- [Marjorie Scott](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/marjorie-scott/)
- [Ron Goodman](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ron-goodman/)
- [Richard Leadbetter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/richard-leadbetter/)
- [Allen Pugnier](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/allen-pugnier/)
- [Neil Figueora](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/neil-figueora/)
- [Geoffrey](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/geoffrey/)
- [stairs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/stairs/)
- [jury duty](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/jury-duty/)
- [dachshund](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dachshund/)
- [puppy weight](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppy-weight/)
- [5 pounds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/5-pounds/)
- [planter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/planter/)
- [Mary Olich Nie](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/mary-olich-nie/)
- [Wendy Hess](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/wendy-hess/)
- [Galen](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/galen/)
- [Paris](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/paris/)
- [puppy behavior](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppy-behavior/)
- [Auroara](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/auroara/)
- [New Year's Resolutions](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/new-years-resolutions/)
- [hide-a-pet](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/hide-a-pet/)
- [Christmas 2018](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/christmas-2018/)
- [Geoff](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/geoff/)
- [dog bathing](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dog-bathing/)
- [dog grooming](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dog-grooming/)
- [puppy firsts](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppy-firsts/)
- [Dachshdunds](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dachshdunds/)
- [Auoara](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/auoara/)
- [puppy shots](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/puppy-shots/)
- [Godot](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/godot/)
- [new plays](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/new-plays/)
- [Asian play](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/asian-play/)
- [Cambodian Rock Band](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/cambodian-rock-band/)
- [Lauren Yee](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/lauren-yee/)
- [Day 182](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/day-182/)
- [six months](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/six-months/)
- [photographs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/photographs/)
- [Hairspray](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/hairspray/)
- [musical](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/musical/)
- [HairsprayOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/hairsprayosf/)
- [walks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/walks/)
- [walking](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/walking/)
- ["Show"](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/show/)
- [Mother Road](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/mother-road/)
- [Octavio Solis](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/octavio-solis/)
- [John Steinbeck](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/john-steinbeck/)
- [Grapes of Wrath](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/grapes-of-wrath/)
- [#MotherRoadOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/motherroadosf/)
- [Joad Family](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/joad-family/)
- [Between 2 Knees](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/between-2-knees/)
- [Native American](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/native-american/)
- [#BetweenTwoKneesOSF](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/betweentwokneesosf/)
- [Sister Act](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sister-act/)
- [David Draper](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/david-draper/)
- [Significant Other](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/significant-other/)
- [internalized homophobia](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/internalized-homophobia/)
- [dated](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dated/)
- [SF Flayhouse](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/sf-flayhouse/)
- [play rating 1](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-rating-1/)
- [0 stars](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/0-stars/)
- [Primary 2020](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/primary-2020/)
- [Amy Klobuchar](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/amy-klobuchar/)
- [California Democratic Primary](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/california-democratic-primary/)
- [Pete Buttigieg](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pete-buttigieg/)
- [Elizabeth Warren](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/elizabeth-warren/)
- [Joe Biden](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/joe-biden/)
- [Henry VI](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/henry-vi/)
- [Peter Pan](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/peter-pan/)
- [play rating 2](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-rating-2/)
- [Karen Zacarias](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/karen-zacarias/)
- [#midsummernightsdreamosf](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/midsummernightsdreamosf/)
- [3 stars out of 5](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/3-stars-out-of-5/)
- [Thin Blue Line](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/thin-blue-line/)
- [BLM](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/blm/)
- [Black Lives Matter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/black-lives-matter/)
- [LBPD](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/lbpd/)
- [politics](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/politics/)
- [Presidential election](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/presidential-election/)
- [Biden](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/biden/)
- [Harris](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/harris/)
- [outdoorwalks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/outdoorwalks/)
- [Air Quality](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/air-quality/)
- [Purple Air](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/purple-air/)
- [air quality sensor](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/air-quality-sensor/)
- [San Francisco air quality](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/san-francisco-air-quality/)
- [Ma Rainey's Black Bottom](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ma-raineys-black-bottom/)
- [Viola Davis](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/viola-davis/)
- [Chadwick Boseman](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/chadwick-boseman/)
- [Giving Voice](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/giving-voice/)
- [Netflix](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/netflix/)
- [san francisco streets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/san-francisco-streets/)
- [outdoor walks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/outdoor-walks/)
- [street signs](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/street-signs/)
- [stairways](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/stairways/)
- [Pomona College](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pomona-college/)
- [Twin Peaks](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/twin-peaks/)
- [San Francisco](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/san-francisco/)
- [death count](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/death-count/)
- [Waller Street](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/waller-street/)
- [COVID death toll](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/covid-death-toll/)
- [COVID American dead](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/covid-american-dead/)
- [pandemic](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pandemic/)
- [plague](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/plague/)
- [signs of the plague](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/signs-of-the-plague/)
- [back yard](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/back-yard/)
- [plant](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/plant/)
- [fence](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/fence/)
- [volunteer plants](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/volunteer-plants/)
- [homeless](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/homeless/)
- [unhoused](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/unhoused/)
- [disabled](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/disabled/)
- [street people](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/street-people/)
- [celebration](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/celebration/)
- [memorial](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/memorial/)
- [pets](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pets/)
- [rainbow bridge](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/rainbow-bridge/)
- [#unseenosf](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/unseenosf/)
- [lesbian](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/lesbian/)
- [ptsd](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ptsd/)
- [2 stars out of 5](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/2-stars-out-of-5/)
- [4 stars out of 5](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/4-stars-out-of-5/)
- [social justice](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/social-justice/)
- [#onceonthisislandosf](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/onceonthisislandosf/)
- [recall](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/recall/)
- [Chesa Boudin](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/chesa-boudin/)
- [district attorney](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/district-attorney/)
- [Prop H](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/prop-h/)
- [obituary](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/obituary/)
- [cruise](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/cruise/)
- [Mexican Cruise](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/mexican-cruise/)
- [Royal Princess](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/royal-princess/)
- [Princess Cruises](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/princess-cruises/)
- [cruise; Princess; Mexico; Royal Princess; Manzanillo; Mazatlán; Cabo; Puerto Vallarta](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/cruise-princess-mexico-royal-princess-manzanillo-mazatlan-cabo-puerto-vallarta/)
- [live theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/live-theater/)
- [Alan Quismorio](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/alan-quismorio/)
- [Ken Urban](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ken-urban/)
- [gay theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/gay-theater/)
- [play rating 5](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-rating-5/)
- [play rating 4.5](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-rating-4-5/)
- [San Francisco Playhouse](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/san-francisco-playhouse/)
- [AI](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ai/)
- [pho](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pho/)
- [Will Dao](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/will-dao/)
- [#tragedy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/tragedy/)
- [@macbeth](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/macbeth/)
- [Kevin Kenerly](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/kevin-kenerly/)
- [Erica Sullivan](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/erica-sullivan/)
- [Evren Odcikin](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/evren-odcikin/)
- [marlow](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/marlow/)
- [Rodney Gardier](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/rodney-gardier/)
- [one-person show](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/one-person-show/)
- [refugee](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/refugee/)
- [Lisa Wolpe](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/lisa-wolpe/)
- [gender](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/gender/)
- [Lizard Boy](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/lizard-boy/)
- [rock muscial](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/rock-muscial/)
- [Rogue Theater Company](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/rogue-theater-company/)
- [Dan Donohue](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/dan-donohue/)
- [Ray Porter](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ray-porter/)
- [Ireland](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ireland/)
- [Jane Eyre](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/jane-eyre/)
- [costumes](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/costumes/)
- [walk out](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/walk-out/)
- [leave at intermission](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/leave-at-intermission/)
- [Miriam Laube](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/miriam-laube/)
- [Hero](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/hero/)
- [Claudio](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/claudio/)
- [Coriolanus](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/coriolanus/)
- [Play On](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/play-on/)
- [Upstart Crows](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/upstart-crows/)
- [Rosa Joshi](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/rosa-joshi/)
- [Barzin Akhavan](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/barzin-akhavan/)
- [Behfarmaheen](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/behfarmaheen/)
- [Behfarmaheen (If You Please)](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/behfarmaheen-if-you-please/)
- [five-stars](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/five-stars/)
- [Hamlet](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/hamlet/)
- [Fat Ham](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/fat-ham/)
- [Margo Hall](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/margo-hall/)
- [jitney](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/jitney/)
- [Oscar Wilde](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/oscar-wilde/)
- [Desdemona Chiang](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/desdemona-chiang/)
- [Bowmer Theater](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/bowmer-theater/)
- [Ripcord](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/ripcord/)
- [Home?](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/home/)
- [Z-space](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/z-space/)
- [Hend Ayoub](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/hend-ayoub/)
- [Carey Perloff](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/carey-perloff/)
- [Come From Away](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/come-from-away/)
- [Gander](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/gander/)
- [Newfoundland](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/newfoundland/)
- [September 11](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/september-11/)
- [9-11](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/9-11/)
- [Classic](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/classic/)
- [A Raisin in the Sun](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/a-raisin-in-the-sun/)
- [Lorraine Hansberry](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/lorraine-hansberry/)
- [Tim Bond](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/tim-bond/)
- [cancer](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/cancer/)
- [pancreatic cancer](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/pancreatic-cancer/)
- [Keiko Green](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/keiko-green/)
- [Zi Alikhan](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/zi-alikhan/)
- [Amy Kim Waschke](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/amy-kim-waschke/)
- [cabaret](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/cabaret/)
- [murder mystery](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/murder-mystery/)
- [Miss Marple](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/miss-marple/)
- [Justin Huertas](https://www.dangerouscommonsense.org/tag/justin-huertas/)