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Posts published in April 2011

Letters To The Editor

BILL MOORES STRIKES AGAIN Dear Supervisor Hamburg, This is in regards to case number (CDRES 1-2006 APN 132320-42 and 132-320-43) to be heard on 21…

It’s Unlikely A Fish Discovered Water

The golden “Great Seal of the State of California” hangs on the wall in front of the Ten Mile Court room in Fort Bragg. Athena,…

Easter in Mendocino

Holidays.  As a kid I don't remember Easter being such a big deal.  Maybe it's because all I had to do was wake up in…

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 1

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirl-pools. Excepting only death, he has no enemies left to meet... That man has…

Letters To The Editor

CALL JERRY Dear Editor and AVA readers: I arrived at Tehachapi state prison with high hopes of something better to come. Sitting in the San…

The Great American Witch Hunt

Just as Guantanamo Bay detention centers and military tribunals have remained in place, the perjury witch hunt trial of Major League Baseball’s home run king, Barry Lamar Bonds, continued unabated and has now reached a predictably ugly conclusion.

George Harrison & The Taxman

For me it is life and taxes that are inseparable: I was born on April 15. Only when I turned forty, six years ago did…

Drawing The Line Once Again

After Paul Goodman’s death in 1972 anarchist historian George Woodcock characterized him as perhaps “the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation.” If we…

What’s Going On?

One of my guilty pleasures is watching sports highlights on my computer, many of which are prefaced by thirty-second ads for shoes, cars, beer, and the Army.

What’s Really Going On In Libya?

It looks as though eastern Libya will slide into the Medi­terranean under the sheer weight of western journal­ists assembled in Benghazi and Misrata. A tsunami…

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