The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other outspoken foes of organized labor like to claim that small business owners are as anti-union as the notoriously anti-union Chamber and its big business members. But don't you…
Posts published in “Essays”
Why does the blues make us happy? What does it mean that an octopus apparently needs to be smarter than, say, a red ant? How do fish and birds turn like that, all together? Why don’t we have tails? Don’t zero and infinity sometimes amount to the same thing?
Embattled Mendocino County DA Meredith Lintott was the top vote-getter in Tuesday’s primary, but she faces a tough run-off in the November election with challenger David Eyster and her re-election is far from certain.
Let's go out on a limb and predict the outcome of the Fifth District Supervisorial Race on Tuesday.
A few weeks ago, we went out to celebrate the use and proper function of underpants. It has been a long haul and we're not completely out of the woods yet, but things were going…
The ghosts that haunt Senator John McCain are about 600 in number and right now they are mustering for an onslaught. McCain, one of America's foremost Republicans and President Barack Obama's opponent in 2008, is…
Not me. I’m waiving my rights. Let's go out on a limb and predict the outcome of the Fifth District Supervisorial Race on Tuesday. The Fifth District -- those who vote anyway -- is at…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First a special extra greeting to Robin the Robin, who is in town visiting her sister, Hummingbird. I can hardly get a…
Ukiah High School teacher Jeff Burrell can get on with his life after felony marijuana cultivation charges he faced were dropped Tuesday, in yet another confusing chapter in the saga of Mendocino County District Attorney Meredith Lintott.