The subject of the 4am hour of Pat Thurston's KGO Radio Show of Saturday, December 5, was excessive traffic fines. Ms. Thurston complained that it…
Posts published in “Day: December 23, 2009”
I've gotten some interesting--though not unpredictable--responses to an essay I wrote a few weeks ago about how the term "mainstream media" is used as political…
GREENHOUSE SUMMIT GAS Greetings Editor, Can anyone with some economic expertise inform me about how much (in round figures) gasoline, airplane fuel, energy, cop overtime,…
Editor, Holiday happiness to you all. We are all locked down here due to a murder of a prisoner. About, “The Death of Teddy Ballgame."…
Editor, My trip from Florence, Arizona to Mendocino County Jail, and a few words on California prison overcrowding. I sent Mendocino County Jail a 1381…
It's census time again, time to flush out the hill muffins, beat them out of the bushes, time to venture up those lonely roads behind all those locked gates, time to count noses of a whole lot of people who prefer not to be counted, especially by the government.
Marilyn Monroe once said, “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle.”…
In the latest episode in the long, sordid saga of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's widely-contested Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process, the California State Lands Commission…
I drove about 1⁄4 mile up the driveway opposite Gowan’s Oak Tree fruit stand to arrive at Pat Hulbert’s home on the Hulbert Ranch. She…