I’d never heard of Ursula Jones Dickson before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors chose her to be our new D.A. Probably, you never heard of her either. She’s been a sitting judge, and like most judges has kept a low profile.

Why not? Everybody else is. Trump wants to deport them. Most liberals vow to fight. So what’s your position?

That one day the following individuals make a public statement, live on television, affirming their guilt in helping to reduce Oakland to its current state of disaster: Carroll Fife, Nikki Bas, Sheng Thao and Rebecca Kaplan.

I’m sure lots of cancer patients will agree that the treatment is harder than the disease. In the eight months since my diagnosis, I’ve had 3 surgeries, more painful urethral catheters than I can keep track of, multiple rounds of immunotherapy, and enough anesthesia to put a rhino to sleep. The result has been a range of debilitating complications that have made “normal” life a distant memory. It makes me wonder if I shouldn’t just forego further treatment, enjoy life for as long as I can, and then turn to California’s Death with Dignity law for the final release. 

Normally I object to lawsuits brought against public agencies in which the plaintiff alleges harm was done to him because of the agency’s negligence. There’s too much enticement in these personal injury cases for free money, for which plaintiff’s attorneys have built up a thriving industry with their “Got Injured?” billboards and T.V. commercials.