The cherries were ripening in what seemed to be the first warm days of the season, the bings and those yellow-red blush ones mostly for the delight of blue jays and crows. Just the minute…
Posts published in “Essays”
Four years ago today, my first and only son was born. Seems like just yesterday I huffed and puffed until I thought the whole bottom half of my body would simply break apart. And then…
So Aaron Vargas is going to state prison for killing the Fort Bragg businessman that he and a dozen other Mendocino Coast men said had molested them over the past two decades. Tuesday’s sentencing left…
A response to some of the comments.
“Dearly Departed” is a comedy set in and around the fictional towns of Lula and Timson, somewhere below the Mason-Dixon Line, during the 1990s, and the butt of the jokes is your stereotypical southern Baptist redneck.
In our latest newsletter, hot off the press — What do the W.R. Grace Company, the Trade Towers, Libby Montana and asbestos have in common?
Americans don’t care to have a wimp in the White House. They’ll take almost any outlandish vulgarity from their commander in chief and give him a positive job-rating. But wimpishness? No. Until Obama, the last…
As the tv networks here give unlimited airtime to its apologists, the message rolls out that Israel is permitted every illegal act in the lexicon of international law, from acts of violence against a civilian…
There were some interesting things about Tuesday's very preliminary election results which should not go unnoticed.