The Editor rails against the Democratic National Committee and says, in despair, that there is no ‘left’ in the US. I know what he means and feel the same, but we’re both wrong. There’s always…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
After the break for the All-Star festivities, the NBA’s 82-game season gets interesting. This year, as usual, many teams were remade at the trade deadline. Each has about 25 games left. No team in the…
When the editor forwarded the letter from Robert Mailer Anderson that appears on page 2, I thought for a split second that it was a belated apology. More than 25 years ago RMA had slandered…
Left out of last week’s piece about Barbara Lee’s run for the US Senate was some background on Rep. Adam Schiff, the “centrist” bore the Democratic National Committee intends to foist on us when Dianne…
Rep. Barbara Lee, 76, announced last week that she’s running for the Democratic Party nomination to succeed 89-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein (whose memory is just a memory). Southern California Congresswoman Katie Porter, 40 had previously…
A new edition of Franz Kafka's diary has just been published in English. The New Yorker review mentioned that Kafka's close friend Max Brod, who compiled and edited Kafka's diary after his death, had concealed…
In 2021 an oddly named drug company headquartered in Ireland, Jazz, acquired GW Pharmaceuticals, a British company whose main asset was Epidiolex a cannabis-based medication that in November, 2013 had been designated an "orphan-drug" by…
Correction I got a fact wrong in last week’s print edition. Kirk Anderson, Cannacraft’s Chief Operating Officer (2016-2018), did not then get involved with their supposedly independent lab. “Kirk’s key role at Cannacrtaft in 2018,”…
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat editorial Dec.18 expressed dismay about the state of the Cannabis industry in California. The PD exonerated the politicians and blamed the proponents and funders of Proposition 64 — the “Adult…