(1984) Were there ever members of any profession so keen on giving each other prizes as journalists? From the rising of the sun in the morning until its going down at night they keep at…
Posts published in February 2015
So we are already at Valentine’s Day and yet the year seems as if it began yesterday. In fact, some folks are still wishing me a Happy New Year! Valentine’s is of course a day to express love and affection, and we all need some of that, particularly curmudgeonly Turkey Vultures like myself, so I am expecting lots of hugs over the next few days.
For pure verve there’s nothing quite like calling a well-known cop a liar, especially a cop you know, a cop you've worked with when you were a prosecutor, a cop you often see in the…
WILLITS AND UKIAH emerged mostly unscathed from the big winds and rains of last weekend, suffering no power outages inside their city limits. Ukiah, incidentally, is civic proof that municipalities can elude the power-eating monopoly…
Beginning March 2, the Cloverdale Arts Alliance is pleased to present a 10-week evening fiction writing workshop. The instructor for this workshop is Roy Parvin, the award-winning author of two books of fiction, The Loneliest…
Between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,743 recorded lynchings in the US. Roughly a quarter were white people, many of whom had been killed for sympathizing with black folks. http://billmoyers.com/2015/02/05/isis-brutality-burning-lynching/ Used under license of Creative Commons.…
NOTE: Posts are late due to major power outages in Anderson Valley on Sunday afternoon into Monday morning and again from Monday afternoon to just before 7am Tuesday morning. ============================= SEBASTOPOL CITY COUNCIL AND RESIDENTS…
"Stop a Douchebag" is a Russian youth movement that attempts to enforce road traffic regulations in Russia.
U.S. school lunches put to shame by international counterparts. http://buynongmoseeds.com/these-school-lunches-from-around-the-world-should-embarrass-the-u-s/