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Creeping Up On God

So this guy goes to see a psychiatrist and after 50 minutes the psychiatrist says, “I think you’re crazy.” And the guy says, “Hey, wait a minute. I want to get a second opinion.” And…

Reefer Madness Forever

“Marijuana's Role in the Tucson Shooting” was the extremely misleading headline on an article by Joe Califano that the Huffington Post ran Jan. 21. Why is that supposedly liberal site disseminating propaganda by a leading…

Two Rounds on the Roadside

It's an unhappy day all around, at the end of it headed south on my bike out of Arcata through Bayside and just about ready to pass the post office when someone startles me by…

Valley People

MEET THE SHERIFF. Miriam Martinez reminds us, “The public is invited to a free open forum featuring Sheriff Tom Allman as our special guest speaker. The A. V. Unity Club is hosting this public event,…

Super Bowl Thoughts From a Couch Potato

So the New York Times’ cover page profile Monday of Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers’ charmed quarterback, has nary a mention of the young man’s strong ties to Mendocino County. The focus is on…

Letters to the Editor

SIDEWAYS Dear Mr Parrish, I just now read your “Who Really Rules California's Wine Country?”, as I am catching up after returning to Massachusetts from northern Italy, where my fiance is from, and whose father…

Fogbelt Bond Shenanigans

The Point Arena Schools District held its final meeting on Gualala's elementary school and the $3.5 million bond approved in 2003 to build it.

Whales & Predictions

The news of late has been full of predictions by economists and financial prognosticators about what may befall the national and global economies in the coming year, with the dopiest among them predicting an economic recovery, the centrists predicting a general flatness in the growth graphs, and the doomsters predicting the slopes becoming so steep as to render the pyramid an obelisk.

David Gurney, Free Speech Hero

A journalist forcibly arrested for recording and speaking at a public meeting is suing the privately funded MLPAI, and state agencies. On April 20, 2010 David Gurney went to a Marine Life Protection Act Initiative…

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