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Posts published in January 2016

Suffering Fools

My friend John Grimes, the cartoonist, recently sent me an article from the Washington Post about Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump for President of the United States. The writer of the article suggests that since both Palin and Trump are Reality Television stars, this endorsement furthers the frightening trend of American politics becoming little more than a media circus designed to numb the populous while aggrandizing the stand-ins for the despots.

The True Causes

After over 20 years of mostly unsuccessful treatment for depression from both psychiatrists and psychotherapists, I have seen a bias in treatment toward internal causes of depression like brain chemistry, thoughts/cognitions, emotions, behaviors, and very…

Three Votes

A long line has formed in front of La Basilica de Nuestro Padre Jesus de Medinaceli, a Roman Catholic Church, specifically a basilica, located in central Madrid. The line is spread across several blocks. Dejected…

The Stony Lonesome: No Homers

Alan "Sunny" Crow, late of Fort Bragg and more recently cooling his heels down Corcoran way, made his presence known here in the letters column a few issues ago where he said some nice things…

Chesapeake Bay, Not Summer

I worked for the Baltimore News-American at the time of the blizzard of '66. I had a blue-and-white 4-place airplane. The News-American asked me to take a photographer up for pictures. We took off the…

The Agonies Of Sensible People

Much as many people-who-ought-to-know-better have been enjoying the disruptive antics of Donald Trump, surely other cohorts and coteries have endured dark nights of the soul as they witness the 2016 election spin into a perfect…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Jan 28, 2016

Parole Hearings;
Generator Search;
Ross Sentenced;
Schooners Landing;
Billion-dollar Fires;
Sage Defense;
County Pensions;
ObamaCare;
Mister Frick;
The Oscars;
Shelter Sabotage;
Little Mikey;
Global Warming;
Yesterday's Catch;
Gas Leak;
F&G Grants;
Justice Rising;
Haiku Contest;
Gardening Workshops;
Tantra Workshops;
Wildlife Films

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