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Posts published in May 2012

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. It was good to see many of you at the Lions Club Tri-Tip and Chicken BBQ at the Fairgrounds on Sunday afternoon…

Farm To Farm

Dry, scorching days have sent watermelon vines running, sweet corn stalks shooting. I've been irrigating broccoli, sugar snap peas, and carrots overnight, the first harvests coming in for our new vegetable CSA, produce we will…

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…

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