At the south end of Lakeside Park, someone put up a plaque that reads:

In 2011, the Russian journalist, Alexander Golts, articulated what he called the Golts Principle. He was criticizing a Russian Defense Ministry plan to develop a space defense program, in order to thwart what the Russians considered a planned U.S. attack. (It was to be Russia’s equivalent of Reagan’s “Star Wars” fantasy.) Golts ridiculed the concept, and the Golts Principle was born. It stated: “[T]he more absurd the idea, the more likely it is that the Russian bureaucracy will embrace it. The motive is clear: By adopting impossible goals, bureaucrats can milk the state budget indefinitely.”

I compiled this list from Internet sources. It does not represent an endorsement of him, simply my response to readers asking for more information about him. Bauters will be Nikki Bas’s main opponent in the race for Alameda Supervisor, District 5.

I suppose we should have expected Price to fight to keep her cushy job. She might have done so in a dignified, truthful way, by convincing voters that her approach to criminal justice is right. But she couldn’t, because her approach isn’t right, it’s wrong and dangerous, and most of us know it. So she’s resorted to the dirtiest, most untruthful and vulgar campaign we’ve seen in a long time.

A psychological condition known as “normalcy bias” leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings, according to Wikipedia.