THE TAO OF NOW Editor, When isn't the United States of America at war? The Taoist ethic says, “Arms are the instruments of unhappiness, not of nobility. The wise man conquers unwillingly.” Little drops of…
Posts published in “Letters to the Editor”
Judge Ronald Brown has put his stamp of approval on child rapists in Fort Bragg and beyond.
MARGINALIA Editor: Here are some humbly suggested marginalia. Comparisons are slippery. Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one a city of the poor, the other of the rich. Each at war with the…
It was Grand Central Station for medical marijuana the night I met Russell Rexrode at the Johnny Winters Music Fest at the Navarro General Store.
SOFTPOCALYPS NOW Greetings Editor: News From An Alien Planet: Certain signs of the upcoming “soft-pocalypse.” It's sort of like the future “Hard Apocalypse,” but with training wheels. • Increased energy bills but less energy. •…
Next Tuesday the Board of Supervisors will meet to vote on budget cuts to county services. Among the unpleasant decisions rests the fate of the dogs and cats in the care of the county shelters.…
CRUDE REMEDY Greetings Editor: Perhaps there is an immediate remedy (although not “politically correct”) to the countless gallons of “sweet, light crude” gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico from the British Petroleum…