DRY WEATHER WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES are expected through the week. The warm up will moderate this weekend followed by a return to cooler and wet weather early to mid next week. (NWS) STEPHEN DUNLAP…
Posts published in October 2023
Last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting was interrupted by a jerk or jerks calling in on-line via zoom several times to make intentionally disruptive racist remarks. The Board clerk quickly cut the zoomer(s) off, but…
My condo building is peopled for the most part by liberal Baby Boomers interested in the world around them, and on a recent balmy afternoon a group of us sat chatting as neighbors do at…
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Did you know that Mendocino City went “dry” ten years before the rest of the USA? In the summer of 1909, the voters (men) of Mendocino decided to eliminate the sale of liquor. It can…
Try whistling a few bars of the Star-Spangled Banner in downtown Kabul if you want to find out how effective a national anthem is at making enemies. A less deadly outbreak of red-flag-waving hymnody made…
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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.” – Hunter S. Thompson The pandemic has generated waves of anxiety and depression, but it has also been a boom to creativity. I’ve known both. I’ve…