Sporadically deadly, choosy in its victims, the COVID-19 era is staggering into the dumpster of obsolete diseases. Luck and science will soon end it and medical historians will then go about comparing it to previous…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
Today we explore the shabby, semi-shady spending schemes of our elected representatives who, failing repeatedly and learning nothing, plunge ahead with billion dollar projects you and I know are idiotic. (One of) Jerry Brown’s follies…
We’ve been hearing “change is good” for so long some of us believe it, but the more changes I see the more things get worse. The newest and greatest improvements do not make for a…
Many things puzzle me about Ukiah and someday I’ll write a 25,000 word column listing them. For today, let’s limit ourselves to asking why so many houses stand empty around town. Not far from my…
I was hunting down some morning coffee at daughter Emily’s place in Santa Rosa and I opened a kitchen cupboard, pulled out a big white cup with big black letters that said: BITCH, PLEASE. I’M…
Reviewing my notes and sifting through relevant historical documents, it appears the last era in which I qualified as genuinely hip (or was it hep?) was in the mid- to late-‘70s. Since then it’s been…
A hard shot of COVID19 would be a shock to our system but not in the way medical experts think. Mendocino County is different, weirder and harder to figure. Assuming locals will respond to a…