I’m neither surprised nor bothered to hear that Oakland has such a high eviction rate for non-payment of rent. The fact is, Oakland has a lot of people who think they don’t have to pay for stuff they want because it should be free. And in this, our crypto-communist government has encouraged them.

I don’t want to get into trouble here with deeply religious people, but there has to be a limit to how intrusive their evangelism can be in public. Yesterday, there was a lady with a very loud microphone preaching about Jesus and saving our souls and so on. She was standing on Broadway near City Center, and I swear you could hear her from 2 blocks away. She had a very unpleasant, grating voice made even worse by the distortion of the amplification. I was surprised the police didn’t stop her, even though there were several nearby.

Every so often it’s fun to check in at the Anti Police-Terror Project and see what’s going in Crazytown. These are not good times for Cat Brooks and her merry band of cop haters. With public opinion having turned completely around now that people realize the cops are on their side, poor APTP is starved for attention, funding and even purpose. The media has largely stopped covering Brooks, thank God; the San Francisco Chronicle, which for years embarrassed itself by its brown-nosed fawning, seems to have lost her phone number.

I have written previously how the woke left uses the words “racism” and “racist” to denigrate their political opponents and obfuscate the left’s real political aim, which is the total domination of America by racialized bureaucrats. Calling their opponents epithets such as “racist” is akin to the old question, “When did you stop beating your wife?” There’s no correct response, no defense. Whatever you say or don’t say, you’re guilty.

My mailbox (I mean my physical Post Office mailbox, not my email inbox) has been flooded lately with flyers opposed to Gov. Newsom’s special election on redistricting, Proposition 50. They all have similar message­s—“Let’s protect California’s redistricting process” and “Gerrymandering is wrong—no matter who does it.” But they’re from different senders. One says “Paid for by Right Path California.” Another says “Paid for by Protect Voters First, Sponsored by Hold Politicians Accountable.” So I decided to learn what I could about these supposedly grass-roots organizations.