One of the panel discussions at the 24th World Petroleum Congress in Calgary last week was on “Social Responsibility: Earning a Licence to Operate.” “I get challenged by my children and grandchildren,” the executive secretary…
Posts published in October 2023
Book Review of ‘Hell With The Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War,’ by Arthur Quinn, Faber and Faber, 200pp, 1997. California’s last and perhaps most well known Indian war was fought in Modoc…
Shower Chance | Ed Notes | Abandoned Trains | Past Misappropriation | Burroughs Memorial | Death at Building Bridges | Mendo Rainfall 2022-2023 | Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong | Fiscal Crisis/Geiger’s Markets | Eel River | Ukiah Soundtrack | Kelley House Cypress | Yesterday's Catch | Berkeley Bulrusher | Niners Lose | Granddaughter Fishing | Dislikes Protestors | Cartoonist Sacked | Gaza | Peace | Genocidal Campaign | Finest Medicine | Ukraine | Teen Confessions
Most folks know that for months, I’ve called for the County to stop talking about the County’s fiscal crisis and start doing something, get to the bottom of the root cause(s), and then take decisive…
October 3, 2023 Oh Dear Diary: Whatever shall I do? If he doesn’t stop humming “Row Row Row Your Boat” I’m going to double the Thorazine starting in 10 minutes. (I can do that because…
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Lately, the ones between have been on my mind. Those folks not the originator in a certain discipline, but who made contributions to it and in turn inspired the next generation to make even greater…