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Posts published in July 2022

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…

We’re Thinking Backwards

What oughta be obituaries are instead heroic revivals as local cops save yet another moron from a fatal fentanyl overdose with a wonder drug called NarCan.  It’s enough to make you cry.  Instead of the…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, July 23, 2022

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The Comic’s Kosky

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe occupies a five-acre site in the center of Berlin. Until 1990 the area was in the No-Man’s-Land between the inner and outer sections of the Berlin Wall.…

A Death in the Neighborhood

There was a death in my neighborhood this week. It happened on Sunday. I knew it was coming. I heard her telling some one at the next table.  Gatip, the Lombard Street restaurant, was on…

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