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Posts published in June 2013

Off The Record

IN THE GRAND TRADITION of imperial fraud, American style, Obama will provide weapons to the Syrian rebels, many of whom are Taliban-oriented fanatics. Within our…

Valley People

NO DETAILS as we went to press Tuesday, but a female pedestrian was struck by a car in downtown Boonville about 10am. She was taken…

Mendocino County Today: June 20, 2013

HUMBOLDT: Life on America’s Marijuana Frontier—A Book Destined to be a Classic Look at this County and Cannabis by Kym Kemp (Courtesy LostCoastOutpost.com) For those…

Prohibition ’37 — Woodward Won’t Fold

Continued from last week’s AVA, the 1937 Congressional hearing at which marijuana prohibition was discussed prior to enactment. The witness is William WOODWARD, MD, representing…

Mendocino County Today: June 19, 2013

IN SUNDAY'S UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL, Tommy Wayne Kramer conflates hippies and “the left.” He said the hippies have stopped lots of cool progress like rural…

The Bogus Investigation Of Officer Guydan

  The Fort Bragg Police Department has conducted a bogus investigation in response to formal complaints filed against Officer Craig Guydan; a whitewash investigation that…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Before we get into the ‘meat and carrion’ of the column, may…

Baz Luhrmann’s Bombastic Gatsby

Like an obnoxiously drunk, loudmouthed, long-winded, overly-pleased-with-himself, vacuously ostentatious guest who refuses to leave the party even though it’s long been over, Baz Luhrmann’s The…

Ling Ch’i Ching

One of my great pleasures is to look back over the course of events that brought me to my current relationship with a beloved place or person or thing, and to remember the coincidences and actions and interactions that were key steps in those journeys from there to here, then to now.

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