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Posts published in “Essays”

The Crude Truth

The British learn every few years that their much vaunted “special relationship” with the United States is actually, in terms of relationships, rather more normal than they suppose — being a zig-zagging affair fraught with…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. Let’s start off with the monthly Bingo Report. Last Tuesday evening’s Dinner and Bingo Night at the Veterans Hall to benefit the Senior…

Farm To Farm

The cherries were ripening in what seemed to be the first warm days of the season, the bings and those yel­low-red blush ones mostly for the delight of blue jays and crows. Just the minute…

Happy Birthday, Little Man

Four years ago today, my first and only son was born.  Seems like just yesterday I huffed and puffed until I thought the whole bottom half of my body would simply break apart.  And then…

A Sad Outcome No Matter What

So Aaron Vargas is going to state prison for killing the Fort Bragg businessman that he and a dozen other Mendocino Coast men said had molested them over the past two decades. Tuesday’s sentencing left…

Putting the Icing on the Lily: Burlesque at its Local Best

“Dearly Departed” is a comedy set in and around the fictional towns of Lula and Timson, somewhere below the Mason-Dixon Line, during the 1990s, and the butt of the jokes is your stereotypical southern Baptist redneck.

A Deadly 9/11 Cover-Up

In our latest newsletter, hot off the press — What do the W.R. Grace Company, the Trade Towers, Libby Montana and asbestos have in common?

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