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. •…
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It’s uncertain whether the debt-ridden Reggae Rising music festival will be held this year but those who are wondering will find out on June 17. That’s the deadline that Humboldt County has given to Tom…
Previously, I raised a point that is crucial for understanding the situation of Greece today: that all of the images of Greeks as over-paid, lazy, extravagant, blah blah blah— hit the international media after the…
Why does the blues make us happy? What does it mean that an octopus apparently needs to be smarter than, say, a red ant? How do fish and birds turn like that, all together? Why don’t we have tails? Don’t zero and infinity sometimes amount to the same thing?
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.…
This week: Laurel Krause & Kent State, peeing on a San Francisco sidewalk, the Daily Journal gets the numbers on the county's pension system and much more.
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…
CANDIDATE for 5th District supervisor Jim Mastin and Mrs. Mastin pressed the flesh at the Lion's Club fund-raiser over the weekend, as did candidate for judge, Ann Moorman. Ms. Moorman was introduced around by local…
To The Editor: I am a personal friend of Caren Callahan’s and am writing regarding her candidacy for Superior Court Judge. Caren did not follow the traditional path in becoming a lawyer. She began her…