Standing on stage in front of thousands of people can be a kind of out-of-body experience, especially if one is essentially shy in public. But…
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2008: I'm driving a stolen car. Not technically stolen, but it feels stolen. My guilty conscience clatters along everywhere I go in the car, like…
Public anger over judge and jury decisions is as old as the creation of the three branches of American government. Fortunately we haven’t yet reached…
Fourth of July. The very words sizzle like a hot dog on a griddle, and as long as you’re up, I’ll have one, easy on…
When Mendocino County Sheriff Jeremiah “Doc” Standley arrested twenty-two year old Joseph McKay at the Burns Hotel of Santa Rosa in late November, 1891, it…
When I first reached the age of reason and started considering possible career paths, and having abandoned my childhood ambitions of becoming a tiger or…
Readers of the Anderson Valley Advertiser may remember my “Odd Tree Out” article back in April, which detailed discovery of some young examples of the…
I’m going to WomanUP!® in LA this week. I haven’t done anything like this in a long time; in fact, not since I worked at Century…
Nearly three years after a majority of Californians voted for Prop 64, which called for the adult use of cannabis, the California cannabis world is still in upheaval and there’s no stability in sight. In many parts of the Golden State, there’s a backlash against marijuana, though cities, towns and counties are also imposing taxes on cannabis businesses.
About 8 a.m. on the morning of November 15, 1891, Charles Lambert, driver on the Eureka to Ukiah stage run, guided his team up a…
Conservative writer P.J. O'Rourke, who used to butt heads with Molly Ivins on TV, came on the Tonight show once and explained right wing logic:…