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Dynamo

Rumors are as important as chow. Whatever the plans are for your unit have a lot to do with how long you live or keep your body parts.

Drink the Original Good Stuff

In late August of this year, we were still cleaning up the last bales of hay from Navarro Ridge. There is no better place in…

Impressions of China

I recently spent seven weeks traveling from Tibet to Beijing, and through Shanghai, Hong Kong, and nine other cities, traveling and staying with locals. I…

Random Thoughts on a Grey Morning

I woke this morning determined to write about the influence of John Keats’ sensual imagery on Alfred (Big Al) Tennyson, but who am I kidding?…

Mr. Hargrave’s Greenhouse

An angry man called Karen Ottoboni’s public affairs program on KZYX last Friday. “Talking about marijuana growing in this county, here’s a scandal. In Rancho…

GMO Farmer Busted

Motorists driving West on Mountain View Road this past summer might have noticed there was a stand of corn growing off to the left, in…

Reckless Drinking

Last week we set sail through “Ukiah After Dark,” on the inland party boat without mentioning that the consequences of a night on the town …

Marijuana Imperialism & Patrick Fourmy

When the Drug Enforcement Agency raided a large-scale marijuana grow three weeks ago on Navarro Ridge Road, neighbors of the pot gardens were very pleased.…

We Have Nothing To Lose But Our Walls

We are being walled in. Every second that we stay here, they are adding another inch to the wall they are building along the southern…

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