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Posts published in January 2024

Letters (January 16, 2024)

Well, 2024 is just a few minutes old and I’ve already had my 1st fight of the year! I often get my morning cuppa from the nearby Starbucks; not b /c I like corporate coffee; but this is very close to where I live…

23 Years To The Finish Line

Some 23 years ago I had some free time and I wanted to serve on a Sonoma County Fair Board. This honor is an appointment made by the Governor. Ironically of all the appointments made…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Jan. 15, 2024

Cloudy | 128 Open | BOLO Jones | Veterinarian Wanted | Raindrops | Veteran Affairs | Arena School | Mulheren Retrospective | Same Problems | Willits Creek | Whale Run | Palm Painting | Tiburcio Vasquez | Ed Notes | Arena Spa | Being 90 | Blind-Pigging | Great Day | Yesterday's Catch | Niners/Packers | Young Gronk | Pickle Ball | Brain/Drugs | Social Contact | Stupid People | Socialism Good | Inuit Sunglasses | Trump Shtick | Post 1961

The Last Fire Team

I was still about half drunk when my plane touched down in San Diego. It had been three weeks since I signed my enlistment papers, and I used that time wisely. I had partied. Large.…

Comes An Arkie [2000]

When you leave California and return to Arkansas in the spring time, you immediately notice how red the earth is and how green the grass and trees are, and you breathe the scent of pine.…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024

Cloudy | Ten Mile | Navarro Watch | Dubliners | AVUSD News | Mystery Beach | AV Events | AQMD Questions | Best Heaven | Reckless BOS | Mouth Corners | Ed Notes | Pup Dozen | Grange News | Trash-Talkers | Old 253 | Ralph Kent | Yesterday's Catch | Peace Fridays | Ceasefire Resolution | Marco Radio | Confused Monkeys | Cold Firing | Jean Cione | Arrow Store | Freeing Klamath | Sinatra Fans | Snow Job | Genocide Evidence | Israel Move | Skin Deep | Climate Denial | Smoking Newsies

New Year’s Resolutions

How much of a joke are New Years resolutions, actually there’re not really funny, have been thoroughly discredited, and exposed as a silly ritual which brings almost zero success or change to anyone, in other…

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