Twenty years later I should know better. But I can’t stop myself. I’m going to partake of the wicked Bari brew, knowing a nasty hangover is sure to follow. What has me bellied up to…
Posts published in “Essays”
Don’t get excited. It’ll never happen. Is there really a crisis in US-Israeli relations? Yes and No. Yes, because the world’s premier power doesn’t care to have its vice president publicly humiliated by a midget…
The final installment in Will Parrish & Darwin Bond-Graham's series on financier and Godzilla UC Regent Richard Blum.
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First let me inform you that the always-smiling and friendly guy who regularly walks the dogs from the Animal Rescue around town…
One of my childhood friends was from a blue-collar Catholic family. Trade unionists. The father was a house painter. The sons, a plumber, a glazier, another painter.... One exception was the music teacher, and of…
My eye doctor for over 20 years, Dr. Clayton Anderson of Ada, passed away this winter at age 80. Norman Rockwell missed out when he didn’t paint a picture of Doc Anderson, the very model…
I attended the recent Mendocino County Employees Retirement Association (MCERA) board meeting. Even though we do not elect these folks (i.e., they are not responsible to us), I did it as Supervisor Smith told me…
The two home buyer tax credits are expiring at the end of April. To take advantage of them, besides meeting their general requirements, you need to be under contract to buy a home before the…