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Posts published in April 2011

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 my friend David Borden, founder of the pioneering synthesizer trio…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Nadia Berrigan

I met with Nadia at her home on Signal Ridge a couple of weeks ago. She made us some coffee and we sat to talk... Her father, Jack Upper, worked for the State Department at…

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 ask what made Goodman different from other twentieth-century anarchists in…

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 of breathless reports suggests that Misrata is enduring travails not…

Kendall Smith Writes A Check, Claims Vindication

Supervisor Kendall Smith, after finally writing a check for her travel not traveled, issued a statement claiming vindication that turned the truth inside out. “As a matter of principal I was interested in seeing this…

Off The Record

LAST WEEK, as the rest of us scratched our puzzled noggins, the Board of Supervisors concluded what they called their “decision making matrix,” a process steered by a volunteer “facilitator” from Ukiah named Steve Zuieback.

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