Bob Cuddy

Here’s a question for all you voters.

The scene: A tree-lined street in the happiest and most self-satisfied city in America.

Off to the side in the Arroyo Grande City Council chamber, a replica of the Statue of Liberty stands, metaphorically watching the goings-on and perhaps reminding the local government and citizenry of what this nation is supposed to be all about.

Here’s something I’d like to see, but never will: I’d like to see San Luis Obispo County supervisors stand up at a public meeting and say, in unison like a Greek chorus, “We have an announcement to make about medical marijuana dispensaries.”

I hesitate to get in the way of the hyperventilating mob storming the castle, drooling to capture and destroy the Paso Robles police chief. If I’m not careful, I might catch a pitchfork, or get set on fire by one of the torches.

Spot quiz: What do South County home-school parents, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the American Civil Liberties Union, accused terrorists at Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court have in common?

It’s not often that you hear George Washington and his pre-Revolutionary War days in Virginia’s House of Burgesses dropped into a 21st-century government discussion about garbage.

I moseyed down to the county courthouse the other day to check on the local version of the national Occupy Wall Street movement. I wanted to get a sense of where they are these days and where they intend to go.

When Vic Montalban looks at the beach at the end of Pier Avenue in Oceano and Grand Avenue in Grover Beach, and its environs, he experiences double vision.

In hindsight, maybe I was a bit rough on the guy. After all, he was just trying to make a few bucks. He’d probably lost his job and was doing what he had to do to put food on the table.