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Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

Willits, Minus Traffic & Exhaust

I hadn’t been to Willits in a year or more, and when I drove through it a week ago it slowly dawned that the city…

Marijuana 2021: Reefer Sadness

I've spent much my life around people with strong opinions about drugs and most of those opinions have been wrong if not lies. The more…

Getting Old the Elderly Way

It's fashionable to be old in America these days. Our elderly are treated with reverence tinged with envy, altogether proper for a generation that has…

Swearing, Language Of Morons

A couple years ago I was melting my brains while adding to future melanoma woes at Spring Training in Phoenix. It was scorching hot, or…

Old Libraries, Off-Ramps & Outlets

We are in the midst of a lengthy tailspin into incompetence and mediocrity. We are unable to do anything, or at least not well. Look…

Raised By (Laughing) Hyenas

Graduation season is everywhere, and be happy if you needn’t sit through yawn-inducing ceremonies celebrating the most recent students bumped from the educational assembly line.…

A Place to Throw a Pot, and Up

Ukiah was among California cities hardest hit by the pottery craze of the 1970s.  Ukiah suffered crippling waves of pottery fevers until they lessened and…

More Trees than Grains of Sand

The biggest favor Mendocino County could do for itself is revive the long dormant logging industry.  A well thought-out program to utilize our abundance of…

It’s in the Oakland A’s DNA

Disturbing news suggests baseball has grown delirious from ill-considered changes made by owners unfamiliar with the game’s history and traditions.  Alarmed, son Lucas and I…

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