Headline: "'No Kings' Color-Revolution Turns Into White Liberal Boomer Parade"

Now I'm a member of that most dreaded group, white boomer conservatives - yet the news is making it seem that all us boomer types are ex-hippies. (Actually, "ex"-hippies are OK but too many of them never left that playground)

I don't know that I've encountered such a group of people - liberal ex-hippies and wanna-bes - so willing to be so ignorant, so unwilling to look at details, so unwilling to think maybe they should change at least some of their beliefs - yet know so much better than anyone else about just about any topic that comes to their minds.

Way back when in the 80s, I lived in Santa Cruz where I first seriously ran into what I call "hippies with money".

They struck me as mean-tempered, holier-than-thou hypocrites even then.

All those glorious ideas when they were poor about the "proper" society went out the window when they got money and it became "their" money, not "the man's" money - or even "our" money.

Now they've organized.

I liked living in Santa Cruz - I like the regions within the Santa Cruz mountains - but SC was more quirky than insane then, before the earthquake. No way would I live there now.

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I had something else lined up for today but it'll keep.

I just received this photo of some finish work my brother did recently. I don't know the proper name for his specialty but "finish carpenter" is what I use.

His work in this photo is the entry way and ceiling trim. Probably other detail trim work as well.

Other than his mother's house, I don't think he's worked on any home under $10M for a long time; some in the $100+M range.

I can't afford him.

so I have to use family "secrets" to blackmail him :)

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