This week: Wife beaters in Ukiah, The Major's prediction, Congressman Corktop's war games and much more.
Posts published in December 2010
GONE IN 2010 but not forgotten: Guido Pronsolino J. Robert ‘Bob’ Mathias Dustin Dilley Frances Sylvia Martin Dick Sand Thomas Charles ‘Tom’ Smith JoAnne Wyant Patricia ‘Pat’ (Noonan) Erickson Elwin Maxey Warren ‘Skip’ Harris Rosalie…
Nicely in time for the end-of-year job ratings, President Obama has crawled from the political graveyard, where only a month ago wreaths were being heaped around his sepulcher. The Commentariat now gravely applauds his recent…
Including: Best petticoat larcenist! Most acquitted pot grower! Most confused political campaign! And much more!
There used to be the Hatfields and the McCoys. In Mendocino County there's the Petersons and the Carrs.
Take Hwy 1 north to Maple Street. Take a right and follow it to where the road becomes a T. See that huge building you're facing that looks like nothing you've ever seen in Fort…
THE EAST COAST BLIZZARD Editor, What a glorious, glorious old time blizzard! It is sooooo beautiful, and the plows can't keep up with the drifts. In returning from Manhattan, where I went to see the…
(Overheard at an Air Force radar systems acquisition office, mid-1970s.) … * * * Hey, Sarge. You left the safe open again. Oh, get off my case. Nothing in there’s important. But op-sec. Don’t you…
“Kiss me,” she said. Fly and I both sat bolt upright and gazed perplexed into one another's eyes with the aid of the scant green light afforded by the digits on the dashboard. Since the…