Judging from how it’s gone so far, this will not be one of
Morgan Hill’s better years when it comes to land-use development.
Anyone not believing that is an understatement please raise your
hand.
Judging from how it’s gone so far, this will not be one of Morgan Hill’s better years when it comes to land-use development. Anyone not believing that is an understatement please raise your hand.
First there was the little dust-up over Morgan Hill’s newest accidental golf course, you know, the one out there at the famed Institute of Mathematics and Mulligans. Now, I’m sure everyone remembers the immortal movie “Field of Dreams” a few years ago, which provoked such a range of emotions among its millions of viewers ranging from the revelation that James Earl Jones‚ voice has been borrowed from God, who doesn’t need it any more anyway since He has gone exclusively to text messaging (He has a cutting-edge Nokia phone that is so cool only He and Dubya are allowed to have one, you know, so they can chat), to wonderment that Kevin Costner continues to be described as an actor.
At any rate, y’all will remember the protagonist’s heroic travails as he constructs an authentic replica of Fenway Park in his backyard only to find that no one can play there unless they’re dead, so Costner fits right in.
Nowhere in this epic battle of America’s sacred pastime versus corn’s right to life is there a single snippet of film devoted to Costner standing in line at the county government office applying for a building permit. Thus inspired, the folks out at the Institute adopted the credo “If you build it, they will cave” and proceeded to install 18 holes of hackers‚ heaven without, shall we say, touching base with city officials. Sure enough, when the smoke cleared it turns out that in Morgan Hill the cart goes before the horse just as well as the other way around.
And now we have just finished the first official season of the city’s unique new spectator sport called Spy ‘n Lie. This beyond-bizarre episode has treated us all to exploration of concepts we would not have thought possible, including a former mayor going on public record castigating the City Council for investigating the festering mess because doing so in and of itself “damaged the reputation” of a council member who, if she had been honest about what she knew in the first place would probably have saved the Council from having to investigate at all.
Dredging up the highly overrated truth against an extended volley of blame-deflecting nonsense is also claimed to have harmed the reputation of a certain local lawyer about whom way too much has been said already.
OK, well, it is certainly true that one can do whatever one wants without besmirching one’s reputation so long as it remains one’s little secret, yet I hesitate to accept the brand of logic that would blame the Watergate Committee for the damage to Nixon’s good name. Call me old-fashioned, but if you’re guilty and the fact becomes public knowledge, you’re still guilty.
Poor Morgan Hill. Every village is by tradition entitled to an idiot; however, based on observation of recent developments (in every sense of the word) I fear ours is severely exceeding its quota. Could we perhaps swell the municipal exchequer a bit by hiring a few out to villages that have none? We could really use the money.
