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Posts published in July 2010

Letters to the Editor

WHAT THE HELL? Editor, For What I’m Worth! In my head I hear voices, they give me direction, they give me choices. Right or wrong I can’t decipher, I guess I’m blessed, I’m not a…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. I am very pleased to report that once again the ‘Dinner and Bingo Night’ at the Senior Center was a big success with…

Lives & Times of Valley Folks: Loretta Houck

I met with Loretta one evening a couple of weeks ago at her new bookstore in the heart of Boonville  — Laughing Dog Books. A couple of customers stopped by but we were able to…

Farm To Farm

Her name is “Rohini.” I'm not too sure about the spelling. I never asked. I think she's in the neighborhood of four years old, a shorthorn cow that was given to me two years ago…

A Couple of Truths: Tuli Is Better Off Dead

Tuli Kupferberg is better off dead. My friend and countercultural icon had been suffer­ing from a couple of strokes, hospitals, breathing tubes, feeding tubes, anemia, infections, blindness, catheter, hearing aids, wheelchairs, psychosis, memory loss, dia­pers,…

O, Laytonville!

“Hey,” my nephew said, “that place you used to live is in the newspaper.” And so it was; in a lengthy SF Weekly piece about the mishmash of conflicting regulations and practices regarding marijuana and…

Lake County Sheriff-Coroner Falls Under DHS Scrutiny

LAKEPORT-- Lake County Sheriff Rodney Mitchell is the subject of a Department of Homeland Security investigation resulting from his misuse of equipment purchased with the department's money. The report number is DHS100622015 and the Inves­tigation…

Culture of Narcissism

“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathol­ogy, which express in exaggerated form its under­lying character structure.” — Christopher Lasch A few weeks before my second novel was to be pub­lished in 1980, I…

Mooney & Billings: Framed!

It was an unusually hot July day in San Francisco. There was a parade on that day in 1916 — a “Prepared­ness Day” parade organized by local Republican businessmen. It was intended to drum up…

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