Few things are more entertaining than defenses of the indefensible, as was proven by the charge of the lite brigade into the blathersphere earlier this month to defend the honor of the United States’ National…
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Although very rusty, I'm range-qualified on the M-1 rifle, .30-caliber carbine, recoil-less rocket-propelled anti-tank weapon (bazooka), .30- and .50-calibre machine guns, M-2 flamethrower, Thompson “Tommy” submachinegun (beloved of Dillinger-era movies), and the Browning M1911 automatic…
“The poet’s only responsibility is to write fresh lines.”--Charles Olson With all due respect to the organization known as Poets & Writers, I have always felt that if there’s no poetry in the writing, who…
ART KNIGHT has passed away at his home in Clearlake. The Knights lived for years in Philo. Their son Adrian and his wife Ann and family presently live in Navarro, and a daughter, Raylene, lives…
This Week: A memorial for John Ross; an exit for North Coast Journal editor Hank Sims; a new police chief for Fort Bragg.
In the biggest Mendocino County wine deal ever, Fetzer Vineyards of Hopland is being sold to a Chilean company for $238 million. Vina Concha y Toro S.A., Latin America’s leading wine producer, is the buyer…
LOCAL-FRIENDLY WINE Dear Editor, In these days of declining tourist dollars, with wine tasting rooms springing up like mushrooms to divide the attention of those tourists who do make it up here, and in light…
I wanted to open this article with that quote from Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, a great friend of the Kalahari Bushmen, so I would not be accused of using a derogatory term when speaking of the people from whom all humans on earth are descended.