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Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

Your Dog’s Best, Mine’s Better

If you think you have the best dog in the world you probably do.  Here’s the deal: Everyone’s dog, including yours, is the best dog in the whole wide world.  People love their cocker spaniels…

Somewhere, Over The Faded Rainbow

Consider “Over the Rainbow.” Light, fragile, wistful, brimming with yearning and hope, young Dorothy sings about what she knows: Birds, trees, lemon drops and rainbows. Listeners know the same from our own fragmented memories. Judy…

‘Think I’ll Quit Having Tumors’

Quit drinking the other day, but knowing me, it won’t be long before I hit the bottle again. It’s my pattern.  That means I’ll soon be drinking again. Hallelujah.  I started in college and have…

Win Friends, Influence People

One of the things Mendocino County taught me was the value of being a conscience-free liar when useful and/or profitable. People have been coming to Mendotopia for years and decades, and a fair percentage of…

Unleashing The Zombies

Many of today’s social ills can be traced to, and laid at the doorstep of, well-meaning intellectual dwarves who were naive, smug and opinionated. In other words, the boomer generation. I know. I’m one. Things…

Where Yards & Gardens Fight Back

Having a pristine, manicured lawn has never been much of a priority for me, which is lucky because A) I’m lazy, and 2) the yard refuses to cooperate. And with California having outlawed lawn mowers…

And Earth’s Diameter Is 200 Miles

I’ve been skeptical of population estimates for a long time because it just seems there are far fewer people roaming around Planet Earth than statistics suggest.  Who hasn’t run into a friend from Ukiah at…

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