Paragraphs by Paul Miller
Our state leaders nowadays are masters at breaking something that works and ruining the average taxpayers' few moments of paradise—even in Marin! And what is the quickest way to turn heaven into hell as Bob Marley describes it: "You think you're in heaven, but you're liv'un in hell?"
Close all the state park restrooms.
Lock 'em up and let those closed little concrete buildings and plastic sheds and garbage cans remind taxpayers that, in California, you do not get what you pay for.
So now taxpayers can go to the bathroom outside those facilities, and thus a park, such as Shell Beach in Inverness, can give visitors--who now must clutter the highway with parked cars instead of a now closed perfectly safe parking lot--a chance to sunbathe in a cat box by the bay, as it were. The beach will also be decorated with plastic bags, greased up paper plates, crushed Light Bud beer cans and empty Arrowhead water bottles. This defilement will not occur for just a day or so, but until the Democrats, who are the majority of elected leaders in the state, can vote as a majority and not be ruled on budget decisions by a minority. So how do the Tomales Bay State Park and the Mount Tam State Park restrooms become useful again? When will it cost $10 instead of $35 to stay at walk-in China Camp, where there are no showers and not much else either?
State parks paradise will be restored—at least in Marin—when the two thirds majority vote rule is dumped in an unlocked garbage can in the Capitol building's voting chambers.
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Long time Marinite Paul Miller
was editorial cartoonist for the Marin IJ, sports cartoonist for the
Novato Advance, a cover cartoonist for the Pacific Sun, and is
currently a cartoonist illustrator for The Ark. He's had cartoons
published in the San Francisco Chronicle and his surf paintings have
been published on the Surfriders Foundation website. He joins MoreMarin
as a contributing editorial cartoonist.
Miller, a former Marine
and UCLA graduate, taught a cartooning course in the art department at
the College of Marin. His paintings and drawings are in private
collections in California, Arizona, Washington, Hawaii, Texas, Florida
and Provence, France. Miller's book, A Cartoonist's Guide to Prostate Cancer, was described by Dr. Dean Edell as "a must for any man facing prostate cancer!"
I'm with you Paul! Let's send our garbage now! jim hobart
Posted by: jim hobart | Friday, November 06, 2009 at 12:50 PM