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Posts published in August 2016

The Trouble With Fort Bragg

The trouble with the City of Fort Bragg, apart from its unfortunate name, can be summed up in three words: location, location, location.  From putting a mental health facility downtown at the Old Coast Hotel,…

The Soundtracks Of Solipsism

Among the countless contradictions that the Olympic Games bring into relief is that between private and public music. There is a chasm, unbreachable even by the world’s best long-jumpers and sharpest-eared eavesdroppers, between the individual…

Damin Pashilk’s Facebook Page

Reading the posts on the page is an interesting exercise. Pashilk is clearly a low-life, not really apparently a Nazi or white supremacist, but my takeaway is that he was “bored” after he became, ahem, “self-employed” in May 2015.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Aug 17, 2016

Containing Clayton;
Investigating Pashilk;
Flynn Real;
Getting Garden;
Supe's Notes;
Memory Blips;
Yesterday's Catch;
Chicago PS;
Killer Dads;
Money Manipulations;
Regina Info;
War Party;
Pantsuit Cheney;
Responsible Medicine;
Slapstick Debacles;
War Profit;
Design;
Vermont

Still Waiting For Pot Dust To Settle

French journalist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr might have been thinking of marijuana when he coined the phrase “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose” which translates more or less as “The more it changes, the…

Award Winning Cutter Lives In Boonville

Len Feinstein was born in Brooklyn, and raised in Levittown, Long Island, the famous original tract development where every house was essentially the same to cut costs. “My father bought one of the later ones,”…

Bonfire At Yellowgate

I hate to keep flogging a dead horse, but some things manage, through sheer black-hearted cussedness, to continuously prod one's ire and therefore demand public excoriation. Last night I was on the yard after the…

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