Two swallowtail butterflies are again fluttering in my backyard, bringing me cheer for about the 20th year in a row. It remains a mystery whether the same pair of butterflies, now deep into old age,…
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On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism, birthday-partying Barack Obama sold us all out It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.…
Marijuana was the surprise ingredient in the economy of the backwoods in the mid-seventies and made a lot of twenty-something dirty hippies, slackers, and university-educated back-to-the-landers rich overnight when awareness of sinsemilla arrived. (The high…
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Sounds like Supervisor Maureen Mulheren got some significant pushback on the question of holding Department heads personally responsible for budget overruns, especially the Sheriff. SUPERVISOR MULHEREN began: “I have an item for public expression. The…
Who didn’t see it coming? The Taliban take-over of Afghanistan. Maybe not as fast and as dramatic as it happened. But anyone without blinders had to have seen it coming from a long way off.…
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