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Posts published in December 2022

My Travels With Wes, 2: Back On The Road Again

Ward Ranch homestead, milepost 43.67 Last week’s travelogue ended up at Wes Smoot’s childhood family home on the Morrow Ranch, Highway 128 milepost 44.75. From there Wes and I motored another mile down the road…

Done Writing Before It Starts, Almost

Son Lucas, a fraction of your age and thus able to control the internet the way you control your shower temperature, recently spent a minute showing me a new thingie on my laptop.  It’s ChatGPT…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022

Warmish Eve | Sunlight | Save JDSF | Redwood Scouts | Holiday Displays | Caspar Berries | Contact Nancy | Angel Fulgado | Railmen | The Patient | Nap Time | Not Guilty | Boonville Tingle | Ed Notes | Gift Books | Wharf Lumber | Crab Season | Bertaleda Hotel | Unsafe Streets | Yesterday's Catch | Booking Photos | CA Map | Marco Radio | Cowabunga | Boxcar Willie | Victoria/Victor | Transformative Vision | Stacked | The Difference | Ruthless Ring | Dem Fantasies | Eat/Drink | Hapless Whelan | Hard-Drinking | Santa Satan | Flag Team | Ukraine | Crevasse | American Traditions | Cracked Phone | Twitter Files | Glædelig Jul

PD on Cannabis Snafu: Tsk tsk tsk

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat editorial Dec.18 expressed dismay about the state of the Cannabis industry in California. The PD exonerated the politicians and blamed the proponents and funders of Proposition 64 — the “Adult…

Charles Albert’s Christmas Carol

In the village of Petrykivka in Ukraine, Maria Yanenko worried that bombs would obliterate her home and destroy her traditional folk art practised by women in her family for decades. She gathered 40 paintings of…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, Dec. 23, 2022

Warming | Shelter Dogs | Sandbar Back | Palace Hope | Navarro Mill | Blaylock Settles | Hendry Accused | Human Remains | Quake Apps | Ed Notes | Upside-Down Man | Youth Art | Sawyers Bar | Dem-abration | Yesterday's Catch | KMUD Censorship | Football Hero | Ghost Gunner | Christmas Goose | Cheap Wine | Nob Hill | Congressman Pander | Lighthouse | Landmined | Trump Cards | Zelensky Garb | Waiting Room | Ukraine | Boar | War Machine | Goodtime Charlie

Your Felon For My Felon

Openly gay, black, 32-year-old basketball player American Brittney Griner walked away free as a bird from a Russian gulag seven hours east of Moscow in a prison swap with Russian Viktor Bout (pronounced “boot”) who,…

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