City Council Meetings

Have you ever attended or watched a city council meeting start to finish?  I think suicide hotline phone numbers should be ticker-taping along the bottom of the video feed for viewers. 

Really.

Watch a city council meeting.  It's a parade of egos and self-interests.  Still, the common denominator is that here, in bucolic Sonoma County, people want to come in and build and develop like crazy.  Those already here do not want them. 

Why do not we want newcomers?  Because people are a pain in the ass.   Less is better.  They will only come here from Marin, New York, or wherever, and start whining, complaining, and demanding.  They will produce whiny, demanding offspring and the cycle continues. 

I totally understand why episodes of Game of Thrones features gruesome scenes of killing pregnant women, children, and other perceived innocents.  You have to kill them before they kill you.  The ruthless, strategic military general in me wants me to start with the "bored moms on prozac." 

There are two types of newcomers wanting to come to Sonoma County.  One group wants to build McMansions, clog traffic, cause problems, and have loads of kids.  The other group wants to enter illegally, have loads of kids, cause problems, and clog traffic.  The difference between the two groups is nil.