Two things are remarkable about the last 35,000 years of human history: that things have remained so stable, and that so much has changed. If, as Pablo Picasso is said to have remarked, we have…
Posts published in May 2012
BRAUTIGAN: WARTS & ALL Editor, Make no mistake about it: I love Richard Brautigan. I really love Richard Brautigan. He was as much a part of my early literary training at the Writing Seminars Department…
Watch Europe tip left and right as voters rise in fury against the austerity menu that’s been bringing them to utter ruin. In Holland, the right-wing Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders brought down the governing…
Artesa of Sonoma, a subsidiary of Spanish wine giant Codorniu, has a public image crisis on its hands, and on a scale few wine companies have ever encountered. Last year, the company received a spate…
According to the California Vehicle Code, a speed trap is “…a particular section of a highway with a prima facie speed limit that is provided by this code or by local ordinance … if that…
An LA cop was deer hunting with a 12-year-old kid north of Westport. The cop and the kid didn't know they were in a bush hippy neighborhood. * The LA cop was armed with a…
ALTHOUGH MENDOCINO COUNTY law enforcement, from the Sheriff’s Department to the DA’s Office, seems unanimous in their conviction that Dr. Peter Keegan murdered his wife of 30 years, Susan Keegan, the case against the Ukiah…
A FIVE-TON truck registered to Veritable Vegetable of San Francisco overturned on 128 Monday shortly before noon about a quarter mile from the Yorkville Fire Station. The truck, which had just made a stop at…
THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 2012 — THE AVA RECOMMENDS: • PRESIDENT: There's no choice. Both candidates represent the concentrations of wealth that have brought us to where we are, which is rolling, unaddressed…