re: #59 marjoriemoon

California rocks by the way. I was reading some dissing of Berkeley last night which I think is appalling. I don’t care if these people are out there, on the fringe, whatever. We should be thanking Californians for many of our freedoms because if they hadn’t pushed the envelope, it would still be closed shut for the rest of us.

Thank you. Thanks also to Obdicut for pointing out the distinction between the city and UC Berkeley, which is much more like an ordinary (liberal) university; it’s the city that’s anomalous.

I used to live in Berkeley and the nuttiness of some of the people really drove me insane. PTA meetings could be very, very annoying, although they definitely generated humorous moments. City Council meetings must be a laugh a minute. But it is true, we absolutely need some people pulling from the far left as a small counterbalance to all those pulling from the far right.

I take the dissing of Berkeley as pretty much akin to comments about Texas from people on the left. In fact, in our household (a democratic Texan + a Berkeley prof) we are delightfully able to offload on both geographical locations.