It's Burning Man time again. I'm not going, again. I'm going to say something critical about it, again. And will be mostly ignored and/or vilified, again.
Posts published in August 2015
A spokesman for one of the police departments currently under scrutiny for summarily executing illegal lane-changers had this to say in his trigger-happy officer's defense: "Our number-one priority is always going to be officer safety."…
I was put in mind of my friend Elgin this morning when I heard the unmistakable sound of an old Volkswagen Beetle going by. Elgin and I met in 1966, my junior year of high school. He was a massive six-three, a formidable football player, grew up in wealthy family, had his own horse, a new VW Beetle, hunted, drank whiskey, and hung out with other football players and their cheerleader girlfriends.
I am very disturbed that numerous logging trucks are coming out of the woods loaded with Redwoods, large ones, from the area up the Noyo River watershed at the end of Sherwood Road, and are going on to Hwy 1, headed North. What area are they actively logging at such a prodigious rate, and which lumber mill up North are they heading toward?
The night before the Russian River Run, Sally Miklose called me from her motel room in Ukiah because her 16-year-old son Jesse wanted to find out how fast I'm planning to run the next day's…
Giant ragweeds bloom in the fields of our river valley after an unusually wet spring, with vast expanses of the bottoms and low ground temporarily abandoned by modern agriculture. Most of the watermelons have succumbed…
So, you are out on the John Muir Trail (JMT) and nature calls. Your first thought: Why doesn't Nature have a 1-800 number. Of course, Mother Nature isn't calling you on the phone. Mother Nature…
LakeCo Fires;
Weaverville Fire;
Abatement Alarm;
Winetrain Wrong;
First5's Letter;
Diver Drowned;
Suffering;
SF Homeless;
Less Trees;
Tiny Illegal;
Bucket Sale;
Trump's Polemics;
Market Swings;
Yesterday's Catch;
Insomnia;
Divorce Sale;
County Vacancies;
Museum Work;
Fructose Madness;
Pleasantly Disintegrating;
Library Events;
Real Radio;
Asylum Debate
It’s not just cops who can confuse real guns with toys, and last week a crafty defense lawyer used a toy gun to get serious gun charges against his client thrown out of court. On…