The California Coastal Commission just voted 8-2 against approving the completion of the 241 toll road.

What a joke. I watched most of the commissioner comments online (the commission staff is playing "Touch of Grey" by the Grateful Dead over the webcast. Nice). It's embarrassing to me as an free citizen of this country that those eight crackpots are entrusted with power over anyone's liberty or property. Some, like Rancho Palos Verde Councilman Larry Clark, are liars. Others, like Sara Wan and Mary Shallenberger, are just left-wing crackpots.

Kudos to Commissioners William Burke and Steve Kram for their display of common sense, and demonstrating they live in the real world of great majority of people who don't think a mouse is worth more than someone's house.

Oh well. The fight goes on.