A stern visage, the very picture of 19th century rectitude, looked down on passersby from a banner at the corner of McAllister and Larkin, fin…
Posts published in July 2017
In 1968 I was a 17-year-old philosophy major living in the dorms at U.C. Riverside. Along with all the usual adjustments to living away from…
I ditched my last substance addiction on May 28th, 1988. I was at a party talking to the wife of a friend. As we conversed,…
Word on the street is, things are pretty rough out there, "out there" being the world in general and the United States specifically. I hear,…
We are looking more and more like France on the eve of its revolution in 1789. Our classes are distributed differently, but the inequity is…
It there’s one comfort to be had in the mad scrum of high summer tourism it is that the crowds can still be escaped, even…
David Severn's article, Stealing Sam's Land documents his slanted perspective of the controversy. With the addition of a few facts to the narrative a different picture emerges. There was no theft of land and to say so is a gross misstatement. In 1910 Dr. C.O. Edwards who previously owned Brian's land purchased an easement to use all of the water in a canyon from the prior owner of Sam's land, the easement running with the land and binding on successive owners and binding upon Sam.
[Aug 23] The Fort Bragg Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 6:00 PM at Town Hall, 363 N.…
At a New York museum last week I noticed two objects on exhibit, one of them a mirror, the other a camera that was focused…