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Posts published in “Essays”

Making the Rich Happy

Nicely in time for the end-of-year job ratings, Presi­dent Obama has crawled from the political graveyard, where only a month ago wreaths were being heaped…

Our Lady of Perpetual Fun

Take Hwy 1 north to Maple Street.  Take a right and follow it to where the road becomes a T.  See that huge building you're…

Top Secret

(Overheard at an Air Force radar systems acquisition office, mid-1970s.) … * * * Hey, Sarge. You left the safe open again. Oh, get off…

Farm To Farm

“Kiss me,” she said. Fly and I both sat bolt upright and gazed perplexed into one another's eyes with the aid of the scant green…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Happy New Year! In a couple of days it’s the amateur party-goer’s…

Movie Review: The Fighter

Hollywood produces frauds From lives that once had meat; No one in the know applauds Hollywood’s latest feat When it produces movies of Redemption. Triumph.…

Propaganda Of Childhood

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.” — Cynthia Ozick

The Little Train That Won’t

Humboldt County planning staff has expressed seri­ous doubt about the North Coast Railroad Authority’s rail redevelopment goals and the chairman of the county’s Planning Commission…

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