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Posts published in March 2015

Meeting Spock

Leonard Nimoy, known to hundreds of millions of people as Spock, died recently at the age of eighty-three. My brother was a huge fan of Star Trek, the television show, and is a gifted impersonator of movie and television celebrities. In high school, he founded the student club STUD—Star Trek Underground Devotees. STUD meetings were essentially showcases for my brother to perform his original wacky versions of Star Trek episodes in which he imitated with uncanny verisimilitude every member of the crew of the starship Enterprise. His Spock was virtually indistinguishable from Nimoy’s Spock.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Gladhanding Fort Bragg;
Clue York;
Poison-tree Ban;
GOP Hostility;
Offensive Error;
Unknown Skull;
Catch o'the Day;
Senior Cellphone;
Rebel Rabble;
NAMI Newsletter;
Jailhouse Wedding;
QE Ponzi;
Paleface Amnesty;
Mass Psychosis;
Powderfinger;
Leighton Art;
Netan-yahoo;
Community Endowments;
MCOG Projects

Sport Chrysler Debt Relief

Last month I wrote about the Fort Bragg City Council meeting of February 9th, and how those who left after only listening to the comments about the Old Coast Hotel project had flunked their Civics…

Bird’s Eye View (Mar 11, 2015)

First, may I wish a very happy St. Patrick’s Day for next Tuesday to everyone: the Irish, the Irish-Americans, the Irish Mexican-Americans, the Irish Native American Indian Americans, etc, etc, etc.

Another Year, Another Great Variety Show

There had been reports of UFO sightings over Anderson Valley for several weeks. Reports in the AVA, conversations on porches and over fences. People craning their necks to trace wispy white streaks across the sky…

Double Tap Drone Attacks: Let The Eagle Soar!

Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208307/Americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-killing-49-people-known-terrorist-Pakistan.html

Young Woman In a Hurry

On average, 3000 people a year are killed on the highways in California — 33,000 nationwide — whereas only 6630 Americans have been killed in 14 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plenty of…

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