Two swallowtail butterflies are again fluttering in my backyard, bringing me cheer for about the 20th year in a row. It remains a mystery whether…
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On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism, birthday-partying Barack Obama sold us all out It is…
Marijuana was the surprise ingredient in the economy of the backwoods in the mid-seventies and made a lot of twenty-something dirty hippies, slackers, and university-educated…
Who didn’t see it coming? The Taliban take-over of Afghanistan. Maybe not as fast and as dramatic as it happened. But anyone without blinders had…
Before we get started let’s learn how to correctly say rodeo, it’s ro-dee-o, not ro-day-o. I never participated in a big-time rodeo venue. One time…
In the same week as a judge handed down a death sentence for Dr. John Wheeler, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted to allow…
On a hunch I decided to look in the coast newspapers to see if there was any mention on Charlie Manson. I was not disappointed.…
Graffiti is mildly annoying in small doses, but no city can risk allowing it to spread. Defacing public or private property is a test, and…
What is seduction? It's when you aim to persuade someone to have sex with you, whether they want to or not. But maybe it's lots…