One Love Invasion;
Miss Atomic Bomb;
Political Recriminations;
Party at Kesey's House;
Catch of the Day;
Pot Doc Talk;
Protecting His Country;
Iraq Invasion Questions;
The Drinking Class
Posts published in “Features”
CalTrans Desecration;
Bypass Suspended;
Goodbye Roanne Withers;
Exciting Fire;
Elk Inn Purchased;
Catch of the Day;
The Riots;
AV Health Center Board Meeting;
Burn Permits Suspended;
Mendocino Theatre Company
Bypass Suspended;
Ukiah Politics;
Shebooks;
Secrets of SF;
Cockburn in Iraq;
Catch of the Day;
Digital Detox;
Lost Vocabularies;
Too Much Information;
Brazilian Unrest;
Kurdistan;
Philo Produce;
Girl Scouts;
Greywater Workshop;
Hassling Petitioners;
Hemp Hooray;
Media Perception;
Grower Advocates;
Postmodern Idiotic
Hometown Hero;
Jailhouse Reads;
Catch of the Day;
Calfire Burn Bans;
Sleepy Juror;
Bookshop Feelings;
Bring Back the Draft;
Garage Sales;
Library Closures;
Angry Gut Radio;
Hilary's Haughty Hyperbole
Moorman Ruling Reversed;
Ukiah Rat Shelter;
Joel's No Gent;
The Advertisers;
Catch of the Day;
Again and Again and Again;
Imperial Hubris;
Counteract the Bogus Energy
I only met John Sakowicz once. It was sometime after Wall Street and the “investment bankers” had nearly bankrupted the country — and had put the big hurt on my people — and our meeting didn’t go well. It was at KZYX, of all places. I had some biz there and while I was waiting in their waiting room I realized that Sakowicz was next door in the studio wrapping up his radio show. I’d listened to his show before and, since I’ve always admired folks who have a way with numbers, I enjoyed hearing what Sakowicz had to say. Seemed he had Wall Street expertise and finely-tuned administrative skills (life as a spreadsheet) and no doubt the dude likes spouting off and I liked that, too. Also somebody had recently written a Letter to the Editor accusing Sakowicz (the damned carpetbagger) of padding his sparkling resume and that, on balance, increased my sympathy for him. The dude must be making some kind of waves, I figured, and I’ve always been partial to that sort of person. The complacent and the apathetic are too docile to suit my tastes.
THE BOONVILLE GRADUATION drew a large crowd for Anderson Valley, the largest I've seen. Children of Mexican immigrants made up a large majority of the graduates, and the Mexicans turned out in force. The class of 2014 struck me as serious, mature even, especially for high school kids, perhaps because Mexican kids, in the Anderson Valley anyway, are raised in strong, intact families solidly aware of the decadent seductions presented by their adopted country and have worked to inoculate their young against them.