›› LETTERS Rack and ruin I’m writing regarding Nikki Silverstein’s “Zero” to the Civic Center for taking down artist Sylvia Cossich-Goodman’s painting of a semi-nude woman [“Hero & Zero,” April 15]. You’ve heard this story before. Your breasts have heard this The controversial image. story before. Our county offices, our local artists’ yearly exhibit. One employee among our quarter-million souls could not bear to be assaulted every day by the twin breasts of a woman painted in happy, slapdash strokes, not nude as the daily newspaper described her—she’s wearing a three-or-four-stroke bikini bottom—and so the county administrator or the director of human resources (I forget which of that pair of artfully named worthies) felt the county should not, could not condone a “hostile workplace environment.” The painting was condemned, nipples banished to the artist’s garage. So, friends, I beg you, in the interest of the public weal: suppress your breasts’ hostility, the assault of all-too-forward nipples. Support a cleavage of the private from the common good. Bill Noble,San Anselmo
The body magnetic Read Annie Spiegelman’s story on the people behind Marin’s non-pesticide pestmanagement policies. Glad they are doing the good work. However, I have only recently learned about what the military and large
corporations are doing to our sky. Check CaliforniaSkyWatch or just go to Chemtrails. cc. We are being covered with “dusting” from military and private jets that stream aluminum and barium salt out of their wings. They have already changed our climate. Mr. Garcia, president of the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), brags that they will control the climate worldwide by 2025. I wish this were a paranoid dream, but the information is readily available from very legitimate sources. Our lovely Marin is losing its blue skies and trees, and I for one will have my young grandchild tested for metal in her body. I wish you would do a piece about this manmade disaster beginning to happen. Lynn Scott,Forest Knolls
They say the best offense is a good Derringer Regarding Ronnie Cohen’s article on Marin’s gun culture [“A Girl and a Gun,” March 11], I’ve got a message for the NRA: You are the “National RIFLE Association.” Does the National Raffle You are not the NaAssociation know these tional Handgun, Auto/ guys have hijacked Semi-automatic Weaptheir acronym?! ons, nor even Bullet Association. When the Second Amendment was penned, the most deadly “arms” our forefathers knew of and authored to protect the “right to bear” were pretty much muskets and swords. They couldn’t have dreamed of Uzis or multi-firing munitions, or nuclear weaponry. Rifles are great for hunting, thinning herds, target practice/
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Your soapbox is waiting at ›› pacificsun.com competition, skeet shooting and protecting one’s self, kin, home and property. Rifles are defensive and sporting tools. Handguns, especially auto/semi-automatic weapons (even when they resemble rifles), are offensive weapons. Their only purposes are war, murder and mayhem. Our police only sport handguns for their defense and convenience, as rifles are bulky and difficult to activate while their charges often easily wield hand weapons (largely because the NRA insists on protecting their “right” to bear them). It’s a matter of degree. A private citizen may not possess a nuclear weapon, a land-toanywhere launching device (or its ammunition), a hand-grenade, or, without permits, any other major explosive. Please, NRA, continue your good efforts to help people defend themselves; also apply your great influence protecting us from being offended by the growing number of thugs who, much due to your influence, can easily obtain small concealable arms for their illicit activities. The “right to bear arms” is about defense, while the ability to acquire weaponry is about offense. Please distinguish between the two. Remember, your cause is about defense, not about aiding and abetting criminality. Name withheld by request,Woodacre
CCA: Community Caffeine Aggregation Now that Gov. Brown has committed to a program of renewable energy, maybe we can deep-six the Marin Energy Bureaucracy, with its high-paid executives and no local source of actual energy besides coffee. DavidWeinstock,Fairfax
Not in my back rail yard It’s unfortunate the electorate of Marin was not made fully aware by the pro-SMART campaign of “transit oriented development” included in Measure “Q.” Our efforts to educate the electorate on the massive developments included around SMART stations could not gain support from our elected officials to inform their constituents. Al Boro, Charles McGlashan and Steve Kinsey pushed hard for SMART but never let on as to affordable and Transit Oriented Development housing designated for these stations. Susan Adams sat on the fence while
TODs were being debated with no input. Now we are saddled with legislation from the state and support from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and ABAG that will guarantee thousands of additional units be built within a half mile of these stations. Marin is getting exactly what the pro-SMART electorate voted for, and probably with no bike routes. We said all along this was not about a train, but was about developers getting new development in Marin and bypassing the county process to do so. The biking community and the conservation community of the Marin have been duped. Ron Ford,SantaVenetia
Someone was late to his court appearance... Thanks to Don Speich for the interesting article on the troubled Marin County family court [“Divorced From Reality?” April 1] and the troubling [executive officer of Marin Superior Court] Kim Turner. I, too, Say, didn’t Captain have an issue with Her M sing ‘Last Train to Highness. I’d like her to Clarksville’? explain and address the court’s policy of not posting all cases on the fancy and expensive electronic bulletin board. I address it by surreptitiously and anonymously posting the following notice under the electronic case calendar board whenever I have occasion to visit the courts floor of the Civic Center. I hope other readers will join me in this effort. Captain M,Marin
Captain M’s notice: “Please be advised that we have an unannounced policy of not listing all scheduled cases on this electronic bulletin board. You may look for your assigned courtroom on the bulletin board by the elevators, or by going courtroom to courtroom, or by asking one of the guys at the metal detector for help. Hopefully, this delay will not cause you to have your case dismissed for your non-appearance. Just be thankful we are not running an airport. —Marin Superior Court”
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