The challenge was announced six months ago in the heat of the hottest summer on record. A fearless few and a foolish many answered the call immediately. Within minutes trauma hotlines were jammed with calls.…
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My friend John Grimes, the cartoonist, recently sent me an article from the Washington Post about Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump for President of the United States. The writer of the article suggests that since both Palin and Trump are Reality Television stars, this endorsement furthers the frightening trend of American politics becoming little more than a media circus designed to numb the populous while aggrandizing the stand-ins for the despots.
After over 20 years of mostly unsuccessful treatment for depression from both psychiatrists and psychotherapists, I have seen a bias in treatment toward internal causes of depression like brain chemistry, thoughts/cognitions, emotions, behaviors, and very…
A long line has formed in front of La Basilica de Nuestro Padre Jesus de Medinaceli, a Roman Catholic Church, specifically a basilica, located in central Madrid. The line is spread across several blocks. Dejected…
Alan "Sunny" Crow, late of Fort Bragg and more recently cooling his heels down Corcoran way, made his presence known here in the letters column a few issues ago where he said some nice things…
I worked for the Baltimore News-American at the time of the blizzard of '66. I had a blue-and-white 4-place airplane. The News-American asked me to take a photographer up for pictures. We took off the…
Much as many people-who-ought-to-know-better have been enjoying the disruptive antics of Donald Trump, surely other cohorts and coteries have endured dark nights of the soul as they witness the 2016 election spin into a perfect…
I was in court on Friday, Jan. 23rd regarding my Willits Bypass protest case. Judge David Nelson presided this time, since Judge Behnke — who had been with me through it all — is now…
Sutter Health is a tax exempt public charity. The tax code requires Sutter to operate solely for community benefit. Indeed, for decades Sutter Health served to manage community owned hospitals which were governed by community…