I celebrated the passage of the health care reform bill by going to see a movie about the Republican vision for health care. “Repo Men,”…
Posts published in March 2010
45 years ago, as a 17 year old high school senior, I cringed as I saw the pictures of civil rights marchers being brutally beaten…
Back in the days of stock ticker machines, standardized company abbreviations or ticker symbols reduced the costs of quotations ticked across telegraph lines. Although ticker…
There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as…
Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham announced Thursday their plan for immigration reform. Unfortunately, it is a retread, recycling the same bad ideas that led to the defeat of reform efforts over the last five years. In some ways, their proposal is even worse.
One curious effect of the 60s phenomenon was some people's ideas of who they were — or not — and consequently what their names were.…
Something marvelously strange is going on with my San Francisco Giants. For the first time since the decline and fall of Barry Bonds, the dead…
More of our young soldiers are now killing them selves than are being killed in our wars in the Middle East. The following poem by a 24-year-old former Marine, who slashed his wrists twice after four years of duty and two tours of combat, tells it all.
Mendo's former Republican Central Committee chairman got 25 years to life in prison for hiring a hit man to kill a political enemy.
Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Meeting, March 23, 2010. Subject: Earthquake insurance for the courthouse. Cost: About $85k for a policy that covers up $50…
Chekov's Uncle Vanya on the Mendo Coast.