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Posts published in May 2011

They All Steal, Said The Liberal

Reading the Gualala-based Independent Coast Observer during a lunch break at the Courthouse, I was interrupted by Mark Wuerfel. This was scarcely a nuisance.

Paint Or Die

The title may sound like an after-midnight softcore porn on Cinemax, but The Desert of Forbidden Art is a magnificent documentary that tells the story of one man’s relentless search to track down lost Soviet-era avant-garde paintings from artists whose lives and employment were in constant peril under Stalin’s regime.

By Myself

It was bound to happen.  He's so close to being five.  Certainly other kids have done it earlier. We were visiting my parents at their homestead in Albion where dinner is lovingly prepared with whatever…

Was DSK Stitched Up?

The French are for the millionaire. The Americans are for the maid. Among the French, three out of five think the IMF’s former managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been framed. (Strauss-Kahn tendered his resignation as…

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 4

On Christmas eve, 1967, John announced to the others, “Creedence Clearwater Revival.” It was to be their new name after coming through high school as the Blue Velvets, then christened the “Golliwogs” by their record company a couple of years earlier.

Who Do We Kill Next?

Pinko terror-symps and the “rule of law” gang may cavil and whine at the lack of legal propriety in the exe­cution of Osama, but it’s not cutting much ice with lib­eral America. For long years…

Frost Protection’s Chilling Impact

In the next few weeks, the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) is slated to release its final draft of new regulations governing water pumping for frost protection by the biologically invasive vineyard species…

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