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Posts published in May 2012

A Hole In California

I used to think there wasn’t much a hole in the ground could do. The hole could get bigger, or it could get smaller. And that’s about it. But I’ve recently learned that a hole…

River Views

Your average Mendocino County shopper probably wouldn’t think twice about purchasing naturally flavored incense. The key words are “naturally flavored.” The natural flavor in some incense is castoreum, made from the secretions of the sacs between the anus and the external genitals of beavers.

Going Downtown

This morning on the 38 Geary inbound in San Francisco a woman, head down reading a book, was wearing a black velvet floppy hat with a button that had a message. Dear Jesus, it began.…

Obama’s Opening Campaign Video

Berlin — Just as wallpaper sometimes tells you almost everything you need to know about the people who live in the house it decorates, so too can even the most banal soundtrack to a political…

Regurgitating The Obvious

We’ve seen our share of officially-sanctioned buffoonery from the Supervisors over the years, unconsciously comic performances from County Ag Advisor Glen McGourty, (former) Supervisor Nelson Redding, County School Superintendent Paul Tichinin, Supervisor Tom Lucier, the…

Valley People

JUAN LERMA, 46, of Fort Bragg, has been identified as the man killed by a falling limb early Monday morning off the old Masonite Road near Navarro. An experienced faller with Shuster Logging, Lerma was…

A History Of Love

Governor Jerry Brown recently appointed two new judges to serve in Mendocino County. Local attorneys David Reimenschneider, and Jeanine Nadel, vetted you can be sure, for political "appropriateness" by California's Democratic Party apparatus and the…

Great Moments In Public Radio

Mind, Body, Health, Politics. Host Dr. Richard Miller PhD. Guest Author Kristina Wright. Miller (breathlessly): Kristina Wright is the author of Dream lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance, Stream Lust, Steam Punk: Erotic Romance, Lustfully…

I Don’t Remember

I Don’t Remember: 1) Voting to wage war against every Muslim nation that is not a pawn of U.S. capital. 2) Voting to support the use of unmanned drones as murder weapons against civilian populations.…

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