by Todd Walton
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” — Winston Churchill Last week there came news that Donald Rumsfeld was canceling his subscription to the New York Times because the New York Times had the audacity to print what Paul Krugman wrote [...]
The report below speaks of football when to some readers it means soccer, or perhaps futbol to others. Last Wednesday afternoon, the Panthers were well prepared to face big rivals Roseland Prep, from Santa Rose, on a lovely afternoon in Boonville, and the two teams warmed as the kick-off approached. However, somehow, someone ‘dropped the ball’ [...]
Why do you want to be Supervisor? I want to see a fresh approach to old problems. For example, I want to see the County do a better job of preserving its roads. One way to do this is by following Fort Bragg’s lead and use cost-effective technologies like rubberized chip seals. Not only would [...]
Greetings one and all – if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Update from the AVA’s Supreme Leader Bruce Anderson, who has been quite ill of late with various ‘old gentlemen’ ailments — “My doctors told me Wednesday that they thought there was a good chance I would die on Tuesday evening. It [...]
by Steve Sparks
I met with Bob at his home on Guntley Road between Philo and Navarro, nestled among vines just above the Valley floor off Hwy 128. We each drank some water and shared a plate of salami and cheese as we chatted away. Bob was born in 1945 in Bozeman, Montana, at the nearest hospital to [...]
After easing into the harbor and finding the loading chutes occupied, the Cabot’s captain decided to put to sea and wait out the choppy water. As she came about she got very near the cliff on the south side of the bay and found herself in a precarious position despite dropping both anchors. A rowboat [...]
I boarded Delta Flight 80 from New York to Amsterdam in First Class thanks to a gifted buddy pass from an ex-girlfriend-gone-lesbian that keeps me on procreatory, sperm-willing retainer. The overtly kind flight attendant sat me in the front row beside a grumpy, white haired Dutchman who was like a raw nerve the moment I [...]
Did you catch Obama’s populist twitch? The moment when he tossed aside the stifling cloak of compromise, and like Joshua before the walls of Jericho issued the trumpet call to the disheartened Democratic base that henceforth it will be the battlements guarding the untaxed rich that would tumble under his assault, while the “entitlements” would [...]
by The AVA
UNTHINKABLE BEDFELLOWS Editor, The headline for Debra Keipp’s letter last week (AVA, 9/21/2011) could more accurately have been “Hallucinatory Bedfellows.” Miss Keipp seems to have a ten-year repeating pattern (like a mental stutter) of public accusation in these pages against my person and her perception of my sexual behavior. Last time, in a massively libelous [...]
by The AVA
Dear Editor, Tehachapi State Prison. Thanks so much for the subscription the last eight months. It’s really helped keep me in touch with the outside world and my mind off my daily struggles behind bars. If you can find it in your hearts to renew my subscription it would be greatly appreciated. You will never [...]
