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…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 trees makes as much sense as growing and harvesting corn…
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 launched a 250-mile roundtrip journey to Oakland to assess baseball’s…