I stayed in a village of converted shipping containers for employees on the American Embassy compound in Afghanistan. Each container was a one-room bed/living room with a TV, a desk and an attached bathroom. Each had a window. Concrete walkways wound around them. While they all looked pretty much the same on the outside, some of the insides were elaborately decorated. Other containers served as offices. Surely a precedent for quick, cheap housing.
Posts published in “Year: 2018”
A lot has changed pot-wise since my high school days when we sneaked off down trails deep into the woods, clutching our tiny matchboxes filled with low-octane marijuana. Alert to the tiniest forest sounds, it…
PETALUMA'S BATHTUB ART should not get a dime of public money. The problem with this kind of thing — Frisco suffers a bunch of eyesore "art" — is it might be funny the first time,…
THE ONLY PROPERTY for sale in all of the Anderson Valley for under half a mil or so is the acre and a quarter for the miraculous price of $180,000 just down the road from the Navarro Store.
You probably already know what happened. In October of ’67 McCain was himself still a Young Voter and flying his 23rd Vietnam combat mission and his A-4 Skyhawk plane got shot down over Hanoi and…
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Little Dog;
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Cannabis Hour;
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Yesterday's Catch;
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Climate Warning;
Exhausting;
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Powell Turnaround;
Pot Anarchy;
Peace Lovers;
60s Cowgirl;
Ibsen Reading;
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Symphony Schedule;
Bail Reform;
50s Hipsters;
SMART Economics;
YouTube Purge
During my early days in the Air Force one of my duties was Base Mobility Plans officer. It was a dull job that nobody would volunteer for. I got stuck with it because Colonel Taylor…
Mendo’s new Public Defender Jeffery Aaron has yet to make his debut at the courthouse in Ukiah, but the place has been running smoothly without him, and the District Attorney told us that he, David Eyster, had already met Mr. Aaron and thoroughly approved of the choice.
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Going Down;
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