Time is not just relative. It’s political, too. We often measure our lives by presidential terms: the Carter years; Clinton time; Bush I; Bush II?…
Posts published in “Day: November 14, 2018”
The forecast for August 8th was ominous. The temperature in Portland was predicted to breach 100 hundred degrees for the second time in a couple…
I turned on my TV at about nine-thirty Tuesday night. I wanted to see what the paid liars were saying about the fiasco of an…
I’m an old man with Medicare Part D drug insurance. I shop at a local chain food market pharmacy. One of my prescriptions results in an $80.03 co-pay. They sell that drug for $225.69 cash. I found another chain store that sells it for $21.69 cash. I later found a website that allows me to print coupons so that the pharmacy I’ve been shopping at will sell it for $15.72 cash. Unbelievable is the only printable word that comes to mind.
Three more states relaxed their draconian marijuana laws in the midterm elections and that makes it less of a gauntlet the mules have to run…
The anniversary of Jack London’s death on November 22, 1916 is near. In honor of the occasion, which I will observe, we might revisit some…
Here on the Macdonald ranch mid-autumn is a time to pick apples. In my youth, keeper varieties were stored in rectangular wooden bins on the…
As an historian nearing the end of writing my first draft of a history of Mendocino County from 1852-2002 I can’t help but being intrigued…
Wet TG;
Horrific Crash;
Camp Fire;
BOS Silence;
Unhealthy Air;
Marbut Justification;
Vacancy Rate;
CEO Report;
Meadows Interview;
Ed Notes;
Yesterday's Catch;
Anyone Can;
Anti-Semitism;
Journalists;
Aurora Forecast;
Peppernut Balls;
Confidence Man;
Lights Festival;
Laurel Canyon;
New Fear;
Riggs Wigs-out;
Hortense Hordingall;
Buddhist Economics;
Bees Art