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Posts published in June 2011

A Memoir: The Fortunate Son, Part 7

Hana, Maui: I could hardly believe my good fortune. The first time I traveled with Creedence to play a concert date it was in Honolulu.

Tinpot Bombardiers

The alleged purpose of UN Security Council resolution 1973, passed on March 17, was to seek to protect Libyan civilians from violent attacks by both sides. In NATO’s eager hands, cosseted by uncritical Western press…

You Weren’t Arrested, You Were Rescued!

Crime, Elmore Leonard tells us, is always half-baked and always goes off half-cocked. The popular novelist’s dictum is validated almost weekly here in Mendocino County. Last week a spectacular instance of it faced arraignment in…

Poisoned Rainbows

“Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.” — Leonard Cohen “I'm going to ask if anyone needs an interpreter,” announced the mustached court interpreter to the morning gallery at Ten Mile Court in Fort Bragg. A…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Sheriff Tom Allman

I met with Sheriff Allman at his office in Ukiah a couple of weeks ago. He was very welcoming, told me to call him ‘Tom,’ and we sat down at a large table for our…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. Calendars and pens at the ready because it’s the PSAs and we’re entering a busy time of year! #92: The vets from the…

‘We Don’t Mess With The Good Vibe’

The biggest event annual event at the Boonville Fairgrounds occurs this year again Friday-Sunday June 17-19: The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival. Long moved on from those mountains but still known by that “brand,” the…

Something Missing

International news sources (because American media is mum on the subject) report that a powerful cyclone just blew through the out-of-control and inconceivably deadly Fukushima nuclear power plants, with more such storms on the way.

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