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Be Like The Ostrich

For the last two years, I have, like most folks, immersed myself in the daily (political) news, steeping in the vile stew and concocting a…

Tim Moellering & The Movie “Quest”

Tim Moellering, history teacher and baseball coach at Berkeley High School, died on a Tuesday in 2011, after a lengthy struggle against cancer. Moellering's Berkeley…

Woodstock, No; Outdoors, Yes

It was the summer of Woodstock, and Henry and Patsy were going. They asked Sheila and me to go but we heard the weather was…

The Big Red Truck

The Big Red pickup truck. Bright red with huge wheels that lift it high off the road. Guy moves in next door with this monster,…

The Fate of Juvenile Hall

In late March of this year, it suddenly dawned on County CEO Carmel Angelo that Juvenile Hall was badly overbudget. Her initial reaction was to…

Opiates

Beginning in the 1980s but gathering steam in the mid-to-late 1990s, American doctors turned millions of their chronic pain-suffering patients into opiate dependents. There was…

Back In The World

Time travel has become a familiar enough subject to us by way of innumerable fictional treatments that we're all pretty conversant with the (contrived) ins…

Confessions Of A Cannabis Professor

Academia is one of the last places on earth where one can expect innovation on the subject of marijuana. Still, this Spring, Sonoma State University…

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