[KC]

(with apologies to M. Pythons Flying Circus)

Found here: (http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003966)

Comic Relief
We're relieved to learn that at least some on the left are funny, whether wittingly or not. The Times-Standard of Eureka, Calif., reports that in nearby Arcata, the City Council held a hearing on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush:

"Id like to say to the people who want to wait until the next election, the last election wasn't authentic," said activist Brian Willson, a Veterans for Peace member. "The call for impeachment is not going to come from the top, it's going to come from the bottom."

The overwhelming majority of those who went to the microphones spoke the same theme.

Bush was called "a liar," "a war monger" and "a murderer."

The president was accused of waging war in Iraq for oil, passing tax cuts for the rich while beefing up the military and stealing the 2000 presidential election.

One man said the Arcata Police Department should issue an arrest warrant for Bush.
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I went to school in Arcata; nice countryside, but filled with a lot of scary-stupid, kneejerk leftwing radicals. I discovered that there are indeed people like this in real life, not just in stories in the news or in 1960's fil footage. Heck, I've probably told some of the...activists..at that meeting, "No, I don't like panhandlers, and I won't give you any money. Go get a job" myself.

KC

[4v50 Gary]

Dear old Arcata and Humboldt State Univ. Back in the '80s, that place was the refugee camp for the left-over or wannabe hippies of the '80s. People had big sunflowers on their VW bugs or VW Wagons. They painted flowers on their faces. It was farther to the left of Berkeley without the intellectual pull of Berkeley. Weed grew better there too and that was a major industry (Emerald Triangle). Guess they still haven't grown up.

Despite all that, there was great fishing and back in those days, the Somoa Cook House was the place to eat.

[KC]

Samoa Cook House is still one of the better places to eat there, and the Tin Can Mailman one of the better used book stores I've found. Never noticed any gun stores up there, but OTOH, no WalMart's either.

Yes, most of the pot consumed in California apparently is grown in Humboldt County. (No, I did not partake in any of the prcatical botany classes conducted in the woods behind campus.)

The degenerate dammdirtyhippies are still there, with more growing up all the time. Probably not as many VW Bugs as there used to be; too much humidity.

I've never attended Berkley, but have been very nervous about driving through the neighborhoods surrounding it; didn't have that fear in Arcata. (Eureka, though...)
As far as the intellectual Left goes, most of my instructors were Liberals, but in the sense of Locke, Jefferson, Paine, etc., not Nader, Moore, or Feinstein. (That variety was there too, but more as student than instructor.) But, Berkley probably does not have a "Campus Center for Appropriate Technology".