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Posts published in December 2020

Fisticuffs & More

I have said it before and I will no doubt say it again: my fellow human beings either run to me or from me. No one is neutral. Case in point, I got into a…

The War Inside the War in Vietnam

On the cover of Marc Levy’s The Best of Medic in the Green Time is a photo of a Colonel in clean, starched fatigues with a bit of a paunch. He’s been choppered in for…

Mendocino County Today: December 20, 2020

Drying Up | 24 Cases | Who Dat? | Pet Dewey | Tree Carving | Judge Brennan | Marijuana Problems | Dyerville Bridge | The Slab | First Car | Covid Volunteering | Sandstone Cliffs | Ed Notes | Camp Cheerio | DSK Case | Yesterday's Catch | Conspiracy Theories | Noyo Bridge | Feral Visitors | Big Lagoon | Jared's Vaccinated | Human Ramp | Blanket Closures | Doggie Diner | English Treacle | Plastic Wrap | Rogue Wave | All Together | Relict Trees | Hypocrite Politicians | Left Losing | Marco Radio | Lockdown Shopping

Pot Farm Petite

I thought it was a dream. A war dream specifically, filled with fiery convoys of armored vehicles, militant men screaming “Don’t move!” and “Arms up where we can see ‘em!”, the scatter and roar of…

Why Democrats Keep Losing

Why, Democrats have been asking, do so many poor white people vote for a Republican Party that doesn’t care about or do anything for them? The most common reply is: Democrats are snobby coastal elites…

Mendocino County Today: December 19, 2020

Driz Dry | 25 Cases | Covid Ate Homework | Rest Room | Adrift Aghast | Bunyan Load | Ed Notes | Hummingbird | Streetscape Update | Czech Lodge | Initial Vaccines | The Slab | Wireless Alert | Fish Fish | Kimbler Said | Horsetitution | Yesterday's Catch | Translating Pete | Xmas Mail | Regressive Taxes | Eviction Prevention | Nice Dog | Big Pharma | Trump's Response | Redwood Conservation | Nativity 2020 | Gyre Widens | Buna Christmas | Marco Radio | Say It

How the Shipwreck of an Opium Clipper Changed California

The Point Cabrillo Lighthouse has guarded lumber schooners and trading ships on the Mendocino coast for the past century. The restored head lightkeeper's home opened as a bed-and-breakfast inn last fall. At 9:30 p.m. on…

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