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Posts published in October 2011

Letters To The Editor

CRACKPOTS, AN ANALYSIS Dear Lee Simon, Thanks for your scientific response to my conjecture about possible after-life scenarios. My father was an atheist medical doctor…

Memo Of The Week

October 24, 2011 — Mendocino County Assessor-Clerk Recorder, Susan M. Ranochak announced: “Two errors were made by my office and discovered after publication within the…

Imperial Massacres

Denied post mortem imagery of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, the world now has at its disposal photographs of Muammar Qaddafi, dispatched with a…

Farm To Farm

For years I always joked that my blue heeler bitch was going to leave me for a guy who had a pick-up truck. I was…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. I’m sure most of you will have been fascinated by the news…

Panther Soccer / Futbol 2011

Despite being mired in a poor run of three draws and a loss -their first defeat of the season coming ten days ago against Roseland…

The Candidates, AV School Board Election 2011

For the next two weeks, our local interviews will adopt a different theme. I shall be interviewing the five candidates who are seeking election to…

Harbaugh & The 9’ers

It is clear now that Jim Harbaugh is an enthusiastic and excellent coach. Perhaps, though, that is an understatement. He is an exuberant coach who…

The Civic Center

Come Fly Away the marquee read, A sign below said, eat the rich, Or, taxiderm them, another said, Ol’ Blue Eyes began to twitch To…

Recent Studies Show

Marcia and I both have web sites and use the interweb for research, marketing, entertainment, and communication with the world outside of Mendocino. Her office and mine are separated by a wall through which we occasionally shout at each other, though we can never be certain what the other person is shouting about until one or the other of us rises from his or her chair and walks around the corner to find out; or we send each other emails.

The Soccer Choruses Of Anfield

For an American musical expatriate with ample means and the right connections that money brings, a musical tour of Europe might include Wagner in Bayreuth…

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