As you all know, northern and central California is again suffering an incredible amount of forest fires. The air quality is poor at best, and those of us lucky enough to be able to choose to stay inside, do.

These guys however, choose to fight the fires.

...I'm calling you out.

You and every other poster that uses tired and stale horse racing terminology and clichés, or worse, the names of legendary turf stars, to describe the presidential primaries and candidates. It makes me crazy!

A little background below the fold.

My parents moved from Mexico City to southern California with their first three children and number four on the way in the 50s. The first house I lived in backed up to a farm. I remember running outside to watch the neat old bi-plane crop-dusters flying so low over that farm. How cool that was! My younger brother was conceived in that house. My younger brother was born with Spina bifida. That birth defect was later linked to DDT, that's right, the stuff the cool crop-duster was spraying.

How a Beatnik, lefty father, a mom from Mexico City and St. Francis strongly influenced me.

My parents moved from Mexico City to southern California with their first three children and number four on the way in the 50s. The first house I lived in backed up to a farm. I remember running outside to watch the neat old bi-plane crop-dusters flying so low over that farm. How cool that was! My younger brother was conceived in that house. My younger brother was born with Spina bifida. That birth defect was later linked to DDT, that's right, the stuff the cool crop-duster was spraying.