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Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

Promises, Promises

As a simple matter of principle, and a tiny dash of “Screw you!’ added for flavoring, citizens should vote against anything having to do with tax increases or tax extensions. Otherwise, how stupid will Mendocino…

Words Ain’t What They Used To Be

Definitions dreamed up in a slow stretch at the column-writing factory: APPLE: Once defined as a fruit varietal, now best known as a cyber-digital entity, and to a lesser extent as a recording label; see…

Rolling Thunder, Horizontal Rain

Clear skies and a sunny summer sun can coexist for only so long here in North Carolina. Temperatures rise. Pressures escalate. Opposing fronts assemble, square off, collide. Things quickly become precipitatious, as they recently did…

To Britain, And All I Got Was This Column

Back from the British Isles with plenty to say, and because I’m a licensed journalist and certified expert you should feel free to ignore it all. It’s like living in a big museum. Cities of…

Dazed & Abused, We Hike London

If we’d planned to insert ourselves into the middle of the royal mess of the logistical nightmare that knotted London’s streets for many blocks following the death of Her Majesty, we’d have picked the St.…

Million Roses For A Queen

A journey of 3000 miles begins with a flight delay as someone probably once said, along with the Death of Her Majesty, as Agatha Christie probably once wrote. There are worse place to be marooned…

Dirty Plea Deal? I Doubt It

We can hardly encounter a steaming chunk of news media these days without being forced to consider the matter of the Guilty as Hell cop who got a sweetheart deal despite wronging an innocent lass…

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