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“I eat rejection like a sandwich. It makes me stronger”

“Tough times will always end. Tough men don’t.”

Bob Ragland

SURFING
In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf- bathing. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along; at the right moment he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell! It did not seem that a lightning express-train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. I tried surf-bathing once, subsequently, but made a failure of it. I got the board placed right, and at the right moment, too; but missed the connection myself. The board struck the shore in three-quarters of a second, without any cargo, and I struck the bottom about the same time, with a couple of barrels of water in me. None but natives ever master the art of surf-bathing thoroughly.

Roughing It

By Mark Twain

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can

learn to surf.”

-Swami Satchidananda

“The only function of ‘economic forecasting’ is to make astrology look respectable.”

-JOHN KENNTH GALBRAITH

Cul-de-sac Politics:

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

-Sir Barnette Cocks

Department of Commerce Rules on Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency Consistency Appeal

December 18, 2008

The Department of Commerce today upheld the California Coastal Commission’s objection to a proposal to construct a 16-mile toll road connecting California state Route 241 to Interstate 5 in southern Orange and northern San Diego counties. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dorothy’s Law: To Modernize Water Policy and Management in California

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/11/dorothys_law_to.html
By Mark Gold
President
Heal the Bay

About 125 people came out to the beach at Santa Monica Pier on a cloudy Sunday to share their favorite Dorothy Green stories. Some people came as far as San Francisco, Sun Valley and Denver to reminisce about Dorothy’s amazing achievements, tireless work ethic, big heart, and sense of humor. The County Lifeguards paid tribute to Dorothy, the founding president of Heal the Bay who passed away in October, as one of their own with a boat offshore and Capt. Angus Alexander’s inspirational words at the podium.

Any event with Dorothy had to include an environmental action and her memorial was no different. Paula Daniels, Conner Everts and I put together a version of “Dorothy’s Law”: a common-sense legislative solution to California’s dysfunctional water supply management. Read the rest of this entry »