What we've been subjected to is the assessment law of the month, and it really is troubling.

My reading [of the legislation] suggests that it doesn't tiptoe, it rushes headlong into substantive areas of assessment law that the county is precluded from doing by the law that set up the whole charter process.

Deep in our nature we are foragers, and life is a process of gathering the resources we need from a large connected planet. It's all out there -- every color, shade, flavor and mutation of life and experience. Whatever we are looking for, we will find... if it doesn't find us first. However, the result will not be what we're consciously looking for but what we're unconsciously seeking. And so, what we want, will never be anything like what we expect. It is the forager's law -- you can find the berry bush, but you can't control its yield.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.

consultation with various members of the delegation and the White House.