MARGINALIA Editor: Here are some humbly suggested marginalia. Comparisons are slippery. Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one a city of the poor, the other of the rich. Each at war with the…
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SOFTPOCALYPS NOW Greetings Editor: News From An Alien Planet: Certain signs of the upcoming “soft-pocalypse.” It's sort of like the future “Hard Apocalypse,” but with training wheels. • Increased energy bills but less energy. •…
CRUDE REMEDY Greetings Editor: Perhaps there is an immediate remedy (although not “politically correct”) to the countless gallons of “sweet, light crude” gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico from the British Petroleum…
BUSTS GONE NOWHERE Editor: Based on the anonymous inquiries that I've received challenging the assertions made in my May 12 AVA letter to the editor, I submit the following for the record: The thrust of…
LOOK ALIKES Dear Bruce aka Boss Man: This is the 58-year-old Napa guy who “grew up in Fort Bragg.” I'm a responding to Dennis “The Menace” Day. Also to Turkey Vulture: we called them buzzards…
GHOST BUSES Dear Editor, In response to the Opinion piece from the Sunday Ukiah Daily Journal regarding the Mendocino Transit Authority’s Solarization & Modernization Project, I’d like to apologize if our previous letter sounded “sarcastic”…
A FORMULA FOR DISASTER Dear Mr. Anderson: A nuclear bomb explodes with great force destroying immediately with blast, then destroying long-term with radioactivity. Detonated at great height, it destroys computers, radars and communications networks with…
A BIG WET WATER SCAM Editor: The Central Valley of California spans almost the length of the state. It lies in a generally north-south direction. The valley is bounded on the east by the Sierra…
POGOISM AGAIN? Dear Bruce, In the past few issues you have printed three of my letters, all of which have expressed a very pessimistic view of the future of both America and the world. I…