Everybody brought up to believe in the scientific method knows that anecdotal evidence is not proof. What you observed might have been a rare occurrence. I get it. I worked at Scientific American in the…
Posts published in “Essays”
I have wanted to write about this for some time, knowing the ruffled feathers will be highly agitated at my audacity to share the truth. So here is my unapologetic stance on the narrative of…
I wanted to finish my rant on baseball and several other things I mentioned earlier. I was always interested in the Editor’s baseball career, mentioned many times, as well as Candlestick Park, etc. I left…
Pain is gain, all the way up towards 20,000 RPM, music to the ears, the urgent advice of audiologist be damned. Even in the marginally quieter age of hybrid Formula 1 cars that dawned against…
A heated environmental controversy over protecting Spotted Owl habitat in dwindling old growth forests was raging on the North Coast when the late Mendocino County Supervisor Jim Eddie suggested a sleep over in a family…
I’ve never watched a noir thriller on Netflix that hasn’t disappointed me in some way or another. Netflix mass produces noir thrillers, and crime dramas like Vera with Brenda Blethyn the way Warner Brothers once…
If Mendocino County history fascinates you, there is a great source of entertaining information in the 60 year old publications of the Mendocino County Historical Society. Readers can find them in libraries, in the archives…