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Posts published in July 2021

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 5, 2021

Hotter Ahead | Cannaversation | Apple Pickers | Populist Movements | Fudded Up | Likely Uncertain | Animal House | Reefer Sadness | GP People | Ed Notes | Black Anthem | 10-Mile Loggers | Competing Referenda | Negro Men | Acute Pericarditis | Practice Pods | 6672 Plants | CCC Frolic | Perv Roundup | Dolly Lookalike | Clutts Couch | Islamic Giants | Zimspotting | Yesterday's Catch | Great Plan | Lytton Heat | Passenger Plane | Weird Future | SmartCrow | Crime Plague | Firewood Machine | Neptune Spear

Getting Old the Elderly Way

It's fashionable to be old in America these days. Our elderly are treated with reverence tinged with envy, altogether proper for a generation that has done so much for so few: Themselves.  There's never been…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 4, 2021

Hot & Cool | Evers Search | Pet Raven | Spiritual Nexus | Konocti Lookout | Lyle's Place | Thornton Hotel | Circus Fan | Crissy Field | Swastika Graffiti | Independence Day | Hate Crime | Mask Reconsidered | Ed Notes | Lucky Stiff | Identity Crisis | Abolish Hell | Outdoor Art | Yesterday's Catch | Dynamite Fun | Sprinter Suspension | Water Temple | Assange Blackout | Space Race | Trail Money | Road Builders | Dam Removal | Nuclear Protest | Cosby Release | Urgent Fury

CHS is Real, Russo Finds

The International Cannabinoid Research Society's annual symposium was held by zoom June 21-24. Gone are the days when blockbuster discoveries were announced at ICRS meetings. The structure of the body's two cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, July 3, 2021

Stratus Intrusions | 4 New Cases | Highway Fatality | Ukiah Motel | Yorkville BBQ | Suspicious Fire | Auto Camp | Drought Notes | Curing Concrete | Drought Zoom | Holiday Music | Streetscape Bummer | Caspar Vista | Disaster Relief | Hotel Covelo | Law Library | Ed Notes | Amaryllis | Streetscape Update | Yesterday's Catch | People's Party | Flying Allies | Portland's Deviation | Violin Violence | Female Polygamist | Cannabis Ag | Emily Poems | Terracotta Warriors | Palestinian Defense | Feeling Relaxed | Angry American | Indifferent Penguin | Shadow Government | Stark Save | Intellectual Capture

Settler Icons: Lyle Luckert, Part II

Thinking back on the Lyle memoir I wrote last week, I realized there were clues he and Grace were getting restless living in Anderson Valley.  One of the themes we used to explore regularly in…

The SoHum Report: Summer Solstice Weed Update

There is no market.  If you didn't get $700 a pound last month you might not get $600 now for last year's off-brand flavors. Everyone who was waiting to get more, in both the black…

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