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Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

The Family Ordeal, Updated

All happy families are alike, and they live somewhere I’ve never been.  All weird families are screwed up in different ways, and please allow me to count them. I just returned from a seven-day family…

Hot, Humid, Sweaty, Sticky

Raised in Cleveland, Ohio means I grew up on speaking terms with numerous and varied weather conditions, including humidity.  Then I moved to California and learned a different weather language and forgot all about humidity…

Free At Last To Drink 24/7

If you’re thinking about when to retire you should quit thinking and start partying like it’s 1999, back when you were younger, smarter and better looking. Putting off retirement because your Social Security check will…

Digging a Downtown Graveyard

We’ve seen renditions of the courthouse the State of California is threatening to inflict upon Ukiah, and the project is wrong and wrong.  Mendocino County’s proposed courthouse is the wrong building in the wrong location.…

We’re Thinking Backwards

What oughta be obituaries are instead heroic revivals as local cops save yet another moron from a fatal fentanyl overdose with a wonder drug called NarCan.  It’s enough to make you cry.  Instead of the…

Drought & Heat Relief Tips

Given California’s ongoing drought conditions and prospects for dry seasons to come, it’s time we took a hard look at steps average Ukiahans can take to help. Timely tips: 1) Prepare now for spikes in…

And In The End, A Marlboro

Someone said “the unexamined life is not worth living” but if we scrutinized our own we’d mostly realize the whole existence thing was hardly worth the bother. Examine this: Why does it take so long…

Read My Lips: ‘No Mo’ Taxes’

Here we go again because here they come again with their hands out and palms up, looking for more money because they spent all the other money.  County supervisors want us to open our hearts,…

The Executioner’s Song

If you have a dog it will get old, and after that it will get really old and you’ll find yourself in the funny position of having your dog “put down.” Today is not like…

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