Consider this observation from a political scientist, Michael Cromartie, who works at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

There’s nothing wrong, in principle, with Black History Month. After all, in America we have a gazillion other months dedicated to causes: National Bird-Feeding Month (February), Lyme Disease Awareness Month (May), LGBTQ Pride Month (June), National Pizza Month (October), and so on. It’s nice to cheer on these groups and causes and raise the public’s awareness of them.

I want to acquaint you with a scam that we should all be outraged by. It consists of a cadre of aggressive, usually Black lawyers who call themselves “civil rights attorneys” but who in reality ride a gravy train of persecuting police that has made them very rich men.

I’m rereading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and realizing how living in Oakland is so similar to Randall McMurphy’s experience of living in the asylum where he’d been committed.

Steve Tavares, who generally does a good job reporting at his East Bay Insiders, was wide of the mark yesterday when he wrote that “It’s going to take some time to analyze what precipitated the Year of the Recall’ in 2024…the reasons why voters voted to remove two of the highest profile officials [i.e. Thao and Price] in the region remains [sic] conjecture.”