Taking in Charles Ferguson’s excellent documentary, Inside Job, about the dark doings of Wall Street in our time, I confess I was awestruck all over again at the complete surrender of Obama to the very characters who embodied the corruption that rotted our system from the heart outward. Summers, Rubin, Geithner, and a host of [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First up I must offer apologies on behalf of Gloria Ross and her crew for the cancellation of the monthly Barn Sale event last weekend. The weather was too bad and with a very muddy parking lot already an issue before more [...]
by Steve Sparks
A couple of Saturdays ago, and in a significant break with ’tradition’, Bill somehow managed to get an invite to my house to do his interview and after opening a couple of beers we sat down and began out chat… Bill was born on Labor Day 1954 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the older of [...]
by Todd Walton
“More relative than this—the play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.” — William Shakespeare Yes, it will only be a staged reading in a tiny theater on the fringes of civilization, but I feel like my play Milo & Angel is about to open on Broadway. And you’re invited! When [...]
Dear Dr. Zack, Please help me, as I am about to lose my mind, or what’s left of it. For the past few years, instead of people saying “First of all … Secondly, thirdly, fourthly … Lastly,” they have been saying “First of all, Second of all, Third of all,” etc., and even Senator Bernie [...]
by Will Parrish
Raj Patel’s first book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, can be read as a ten-chapter exegesis on the ills of global capitalism, as manifested by its gut-wrenching stranglehold over people’s access to food and other basic necessities. At one point in the book, Patel notes in a manner typical [...]
by Bruce McEwen
It has taken more than a year just to get to the preliminary hearing in the Juda and Hugo Cruz case. Juda is the father, Hugo is the son. They are co-defendants. The Cruzes are charged with possessing 51 pounds of methamphetamine, enough go-fast to send every speed freak in the state on a [...]
by The AVA
DEPUTY SQUIRES will be honored by the Sheriff’s Department as “Deputy of the Year” at the Elk’s Lodge, Ukiah, this Saturday night, an honor well-deserved and long overdue. PAUL MEILLEUR of Philo writes: On Monday, March 21, 2011, at 1:42PM PDT a 3.5 earthquake struck 3 miles north of Philo 5km (3.1 miles) below the [...]
by The AVA
This Week: Return to Jonestown & the Bari Bombing; a Westport weed battle; Aanestad & the KZYX nambo-pambos; and much more
To live. Sounds easy enough in practice. Wake up. Eat. Work. Play. Love yourself. Love people around you. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. “My parents told me if I went to college, got married and had kids, I would be happy.” My dad told me this as I was growing up. He was also careful to add [...]
