SOMETHING SHE SAID? Dear Editor, What I don't understand about the “Scourging of Helen Thomas” is why no one mentions freedom of speech. Isn't this still America? What have we come to when a much…
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CHEAPER COPS? To the Editor: Most of you do not know me. I am an investigator with the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office. Prior to that I was a detective with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s…
LOCAL OR LOCOWEED? Editor, The “Superweeds” are here, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article “Superweed Outbreak Triggers Arms Race.” It reports that several varieties of weeds have developed an immunity to the herbicide…
THE TAO OF NOW Editor, When isn't the United States of America at war? The Taoist ethic says, “Arms are the instruments of unhappiness, not of nobility. The wise man conquers unwillingly.” Little drops of…
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…
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…