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AV Land Trust Sues Peachland Family (Part 2)

There are many confusing aspects to the Anderson Valley Land Trust filing a lawsuit against me and my family.  One of the most confounding is that many board members who sued me know me personally…

Brecht in Berlin

One of Brecht’s best-loved and most-performed works, The Caucasian Chalk Circle was written in Los Angeles in 1944 while the playwright was still in exile. He returned to Germany in 1947

Trans-Sallie

When I was a knock-kneed bobby-soxed fifth grader I remember the big deal that my teachers made about the equality of all Americans. It was a kind of innocent strain of nascent American exceptionalism that…

The Year I Grew Up

To most adults who I interact with, I am “very young.” But for some reason, I feel like I’ve already lived a thousand lifetimes. I just feel old. Things are hurting already. Ha! In 2019,…

The Year Was 1878…

One doesn't run across references to streptococcus bacteria in news accounts of the 1870s very often. Nevertheless, in a July, 1878 edition of the Russian River Flag, a Nicholas Klink is cited as carrying a…

How I Got Fired From KPFZ

Part 2: The Inquisition  Now the dies were cast — I was out of the station and forever labeled a white supremacist/misogynist. There was of course the usual ritual finger-wagging session scheduled with the programming…

Harm Reduction

If there is one thing that sticks in the collective conservative craw (and I assure you there are many and various such indigestibles on their menu; one imagines a fussy two-year-old scowling stubbornly, arms folded,…

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