The legendary American abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed in the 1800s that "Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will." And thus…
Posts published in “Day: December 23, 2009”
THE COUNTRY may be sliding into permanent Depression, but Mendocino County’s judges, already more numerous in relation to the County’s sparse population than they are…
Vermont’s Senator Bernie Sanders spoke for months about his “historic” efforts to get a vote on a single-payer health care bill in the Senate. While…
A young woman suggested I write something nice for the holidays.
I said I'd try.
The matsutakes are emerging along the ridges. If you know where they are you are finding them. If you don't, you probably won't. A person…
In my younger days I had a habit that I thought was amusing but which I imagine most people found very annoying. It consisted of…
If it's action you want, Hoyle's your cop.
He's an action guy, what you call a polarizing figure, a strong personality of the old school lawman type. Thirty-three years on the thin blue line.