It must be obvious even to nine-year-old casual observers of the scene that the US national election is hacking itself. It doesn’t require hacking assistance…
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Was that great global spluttering sound we heard this week the five members of the Nobel literature committee gagging on the lutefisk that is their…
It is an acre in size and it is now fairly wild. However 21 years ago, when I moved to Boonville from Los Angeles and…
I love it when a traffic jam of bicycles forms in Black Rock City not for a flaming piano toss by catapults, or a naked…
My uncle Forrest was the youngest of Lillian Robertson and John Macdonald's six children. Forrest's childhood nickname was Huck, the characteristics associated with that moniker…
You might find this a little difficult to believe, but every now and then I find myself in a condition of violent disagreement with some…
Last night’s debate raises some interesting questions, such as: would the Romans have elected Caligula if given the chance to vote? Can the Republican party…
There are days when things juxtapose so exquisitely, one can’t help feeling some sort of transcendent author is writing out the simultaneous arrival of related elements composing a harmonious whole greater than the sum of the parts.
I took this photo on my drive home from work last night. I was dog tired. So tired that even my teeth and toes ached.…
We write to provide some perspective on Proposition 64 from California's medical associations. The California Medical Association has endorsed Proposition 64, the Adult Use of…
I don't know who first coined the phrase "crime does not pay." I'm guessing that some morality play from the early 20th century, coming on…