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Posts published in June 2023

Our Times: Sticks & Seeds

The NY Times showed extreme contempt for readers June 6 with a front-page story hedded “US Officials Detect Signs of Kyiv’s Counteroffensive.” Why pretend that US officials aren’t involved in major strategic decisions?  Who do…

Unleashing The Zombies

Many of today’s social ills can be traced to, and laid at the doorstep of, well-meaning intellectual dwarves who were naive, smug and opinionated. In other words, the boomer generation. I know. I’m one. Things…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, June 17, 2023

Pattern Shift | Gulls | Quinn Greene | Baseball Star | Ed Notes | Driftwood | Streetscape Project | Bike Handrail | Louise Comments | Mendo Tower | Battery Disposal | Volunteer Training | Covelo Astronaut | Historical Society | Yesterday's Catch | Favorite Redwoods | Bloomsday | Oakland Ass | Pillsbury Airstrip | Big Money | Walker Balls | Native Californians | All Wrong | Dem Favor | First Ever | Cartoony | Dirt Nap | Bunker Bought | Whisker Evidence | Marco Radio | Greetings | Prodigies | Shit Show | Not Knowing | German Elvis | Everybody Knows | Mechanic Priests | Sister Site | Riff Raff | Dybbuk | Daniel Ellsberg | Hole Puncher | NATO Membership | Ukraine | Burn Brightly

Adventures in Greater TinselTown

The generosity of three people Tina Walter, her sister Lisa and Peter Gordon led us to an eye opening mini vacation at a Vintage beach house in Venice, California. We bid on the stay in…

The Tunnel at the End of the Light

Beware the caption writers of the sixties. They lump it all as a decade of protest and malcontent, which it of course was. But to sloganize the whole slurs the very parts that make it…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, June 16, 2023

Sunny Warm | Bumble Bee | Strawberry Afternoon | School Sale | Art Walk | Housing Proposal | Sword Fern | P Concern | Customer Appreciation | Ed Notes | Rail Line | Little Thing | New Therapist | Yesterday's Catch | Fossil Fueling | Our Crap | Home Insurance | Bright Light | Where Next | Farmworkers Strike | No Signs | Ukraine | Profit v Income | Marching On | Inuit Lesson

Noble Waidelich – One Year Later

Noble Waidelich answers the call as any good insurance agent might.  Waidelich is pleasant and professional, remaining calm even after learning the caller seeks a possible update about a sexual assault allegation made exactly one…

Hillary & Donald

It’s an understatement to state that I’ve never been a fan of Bill or Hillary Clinton. They made it their mission to steer the Democratic Party and the American middle (same thing) to the right,…

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