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Posts published in “Day: August 22, 2018

Blackkksploitation 2018

The critics are mostly raving about Spike Lee's latest movie, BlacKkKlansman. And, as usual, the critics are mostly wrong. Based on the autobiographical account of the first African American cop on the Colorado Springs police force, the film opens with the words: "Some fo real, fo real shit." It's the first clue that the film will be almost pure fiction, despite what the PR flackeys and media lackeys profess. And, just as advertised, Lee's fo real narrative resembles the true story as much as a McDonald's FishWich approximates a rock cod fillet.

Letters (Aug. 22, 2018)

Does anybody really know what socialism is? It's when the government takes over everything, it runs your lives. That's what the liberal, anti-American, pig sucking left-wingers want. They're all about converting our country to socialism. Unbelievable.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018

Ranch Fire;
Retardant Death;
Burn Severity;
No B;
Orth Menace;
Item 9a;
Little Dog;
Peachland Repair;
CEO Report;
Bosco Boondoggle;
November Election;
Yorkville Social;
Ed Notes;
Yesterday's Catch;
Apportioning Responsibility;
Geologic Events;
N-word;
Creeping Censorship;
Inland Dems;
Front Hole;
Electric Vehicles;
Joint Editorials;
Russian Trolls;
Naked Ladies

MRC’s Quest For Revenge

Usually, when we see court cases listed under “Closed Session” agenda items for the Board of Supes we don’t have any idea what’s at issue,…

Cops & Burritos

So I’m doing a little online shopping the other day, as I will during slack periods of my day—and let me tell you, I am…

When It Came To Blows

Scott Rhodes and Pablo Gonzales shared an apartment at 234 Clara Avenue, Ukiah, until March 21st, when they got into a fight, allegedly instigated by…

The Cost Of Resistance

The City Council met in regular session Monday night and gloriously stole their own show, but there was more to it than met the eye.

Town Hall was packed, not the standing-room-only that often distinguishes our small, vibrant democracy, but there was a respectable turnout. In little Fort Bragg, a city of 7,000 residents, Council meetings are routinely attended by crowds far exceeding the who-cares-let-it-happen emptiness one ordinarily observes in the meetings of the County Board of Supervisors representing 80,000 constituents.

Robert & Nancy Darr

A little over a year ago this space covered the case of Harvey Mortier who was tried, convicted, and hanged for the murder of a…

World Napafication

Fly over Napa County, California, and what you see below are vineyards and industrial buildings for the mass production of wines. Roads crisscross the valley…

Chicken, Steak & Hut Dawgs

This is the story of Shirley and Spike, as much as I know and can recall. A very odd couple from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It…

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