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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 looked different, and better. Way better. It’s gotten better than…

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 certain they were, the more laughable the outcomes. We've all…

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 done so much for so few: Themselves.  There's never been…

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 did I already say Phoenix? I was a few rows…

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 around Mendocino County. See the decline. Where once local citizens…

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. School administrators permit speakers to address graduates only if they…

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 broke circa 1985. Smaller, less toxic crafts-borne plagues were reported…

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