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Posts published in July 2022

On the Avenue of the Giants: Phillipsville Memories

The chilly April morning was spent packaging samples of last fall's marijuana crop into tiny plastic bags, then double vacuum-sealing the eight strains using several pairs of disposable vinyl gloves to keep them clean of…

Independence Day Afterword

By now, all the red, white and blue bunting has been taken down and stored. The last notes of “The Stars and Stripes Forever” have faded into silence. The last advertisements for “4th of July”…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, July 25, 2022

Cool Coast | Oak Smoke | Faulty Fortune | Welcome Chief | Ugly Building | Back to School | Lemon Tree | B Shame | Immigrant Family | Well Ordinance | Flower House | Ed Notes | Trapped Bears | Jail Coop | Police Reports | Log Pond | Peckham Menace | Gloriana Class | Logging Slash | Nylunds | Merchant Marine | Yesterday's Catch | Interstates | Langella Cancelled | EV Repair | Drunk Sitter | Picker Pelosi | Fireplace Miracle | Utter Failure | Fighting Progressives | Holy Speedboat | Lied To | Sinking Ship | Becoming Fedayeen | Withering World | Quiet Room | Microchip Bill | Happy Shack | Ukraine | Bump Bros | Planet Manchin | Youth Communes | Old Friend | Run Josh

Battle of the Titans

Though I was only nine years old, I still remember how overjoyed my parents were back in November of 1960 when the votes had been tallied and John Fitzgerald Kennedy had squeaked to victory as…

The Real Dope

(A Candid Review of Can Legal Weed Win? The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics (UC Press; $24.95)) Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, two economists and professors at UC Davis—once known as the aggie school—ask a…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, July 24, 2022

Inland Heat | AV Fire | Forest Floor | Hire Tom | Water Conservation | Caspar Biplane | AV Events | Comptche Broadband | Elk BBQ | Tire Baby | Safe Movers | McCornack Sibs | CEO Report | Installing Sprinkles | Ed Notes | Pet Mojito | Homeless Reporting | PA Agenda | Eastern Stars | Feral Ponies | Oak Fire | Yesterday's Catch | Burl Bandits | Colored Theatre | Pro-Life Coach | Sheet Music | Pancho Villa | Ukraine | Question Not | Proxy War | Adult Fantasies | Apocalypse Dawn | Didn't Care

A Good Man Fallen Among Falun Gong: Dr. Peter Breggin

The foremost critic of Prozac from the time it hit the market in 1988 has been Peter Breggin, MD. Appearing as an expert witness on behalf of plaintiffs harmed by SSRIs, he has cost the…

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