Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I am indebted to Lady Dove for her response to my inquiry last week as to what happened to Bruce Bread, the…
Posts published in “Day: March 10, 2011”
My heroes have always been union organizers. Mom and Dad were labor organizers, as were my cousins, Bernie (printing trades), Charlie (shipbuilders) and Joe (auto workers). If we had a religion, it was One Big…
Think back all of a week or less — an eternity as measured by the ADHD chronometers of pop culture — to the conclusion of the Oscar pageant in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last…
Jews harps, kazoos, and accordions. The county’s biggest oak dance floor and the world’s smallest cow. A Medicare-eligible woman hanging upside down from the ceiling and pre-pubescent divas with broken hearts. Bearded ballerinas. A show…
THE LITTLE PEOPLE Dear Colonel: My apologies for the sudden spate of communications, but I had to comment on the February 23 Todd Walton piece on the Bushmen. It cemented his place in my gallery…
Editor, A Short-Term Death Sentence — On February 19 while in Mendocino County Jail I was tested at 4am and had low blood sugar of 59. I was given 25 units of Lantus but I…
We’ve heard it many times: Don't you understand? We have no money! The cupboard is bare! It's a structural imbalance! Our ability to borrow is jeopardized! We have no reserves! The Sheriff is overrunning his…