This is Dino from somewhere in Mendocino. I might be nuts but I'm no dummy. I'm sure you've seen the Daily Journal of October 10 where the Board of Supervisors gets up to date on…
Posts published in “Essays”
In response to urgent need expressed by parents of children with intractable epilepsy, the US Food and Drug Administration is allowing Investigational New Drug (IND) studies of purified CBD (cannabidiol) as an anti-seizure medication. The…
Well, at least the poobahs cleared a path to the annual orgy of Christmas, which, along with the S&P 500, have become proxies for the American economy. Lately, the Christmas season starts directly after Halloween,…
After two weeks spent exploring the northlands I think the funniest thing I saw was a bumper sticker that said “I drove the Alaska Marine Highway!” Why funny? The Alaska Marine Highway is a ferry…
My brother, a software systems analyst and project manager, sent me the following quote from the book Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies by Stephen Barley and Gideon Kunda that my brother says sums up…
I just returned from the California State Grange Convention in Sebastopol Grange last weekend. The state Grange is definitely on the rise even in the strange adversity from its National affiliation. A vigorous collection of…
Along with the souls of a few forlorn and unlucky violin works of the eighteenth century, Henry Eccles’s G Minor Sonata published in 1720 has spent much of its afterlife in the Purgatory of the…