You can’t please all of the people all of the time, but President Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, have got nearer than most to pulling it off. A week ago Holder announced that…
Posts published in “Essays”
Mr. Huxley’s observation is the tact I hope to take in this new writing venture. But first, let me be up front. I’ve probably been around what’s called journalism too long. And I only have…
This blog derives its name from the Editor's back page of the long defunct "Environment Magazine," then edited by Sheldon Novick out of Washington University in St. Louis where I served as a contributor and…
Marijuana cultivation is among the many issues Humboldt County’s covering in its General Plan Update but the chairman of the Planning Commission has said that impacts of indoor grows are severe enough to warrant quicker…
On official Pentagon statistics about 1% of members of the US armed forces today are Muslims, though the actual quotient is no doubt higher, since the 1% number is based on initial declarations of religious…
It’s a time of celebration in Prague this month. A time to mark the November day 20 years ago when the “Velvet Revolution” erupted. A time to mark the beginning of the end of the…
Just back from Frank's funeral. I'll never put my friends through that. Frank was Catholic, like most Mexicans. Juanita, Frank's wife, is Baptist. and Black. So we hauled Frank's ass in the hearse from one…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I thought it was an excellent Veterans Day gesture by The Boonville Lodge last week when they bought a drink for any…