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Posts published in August 2020

Letters (August 19, 2020)

Unsolicited media report -- Morning TV. Channels 2, 4, 5, 7. In order to get 10 minutes of news you are required to watch and listen to 50 minutes of bullshit

Caught Between Passion & Cool

I took a stand the other day by taking a knee and kept it for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the same amount of time that Derek Chauvin

Journal of the Plague Year (#22)

This week, the other specter lurking everywhere decided to make itself more widely noticed. There could hardly be a worse time for Global Warming

Commercializing Childbirth

If you were born in the early 1950s like I was and lived in one of California’s cities or in one of its newly flourishing suburbs, you were probably born in a hospital. Like food…

Swoosh? What Swoosh?

Fort Bragg City Manager Tabatha Miller wrote in this week’s report to her City Council: “What we don’t know is how long this recession will last. The thought that the recession length and depth would…

Coast Parks & Rec Update

Recently these pages described the resignation of John Huff from the Mendocino Coast Recreation & Park District (MCRPD) and his decision a few days later to run for the same seat in this November's election.…

Last Remnants

As I noted in my last article the Long Highway through six generations of The Town wound further than I imagined. This one, however, is definitely the End of the Road for me. Constable Reilly's…

Eulogizing Elvis

It was the summer of 1977. I was fresh out of high school, living on my own, generally disinterested in the church but not yet an atheist. Once a month I attended the church I…

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