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Who Do We Kill Next?

Pinko terror-symps and the “rule of law” gang may cavil and whine at the lack of legal propriety in the exe­cution of Osama, but it’s not cutting much ice with lib­eral America. For long years…

Frost Protection’s Chilling Impact

In the next few weeks, the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) is slated to release its final draft of new regulations governing water pumping for frost protection by the biologically invasive vineyard species…

I Can’t Get No: An Open Apology To Keith Richards

I am sorry, I said, many many times over the years, that your band has not made a half-decent record since 1972 — you know, “Exile on Main Street,” if you recall that one.

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, ‘The Turkey Vulture has landed’ as someone very famously once said. Yes, I’m back here in “paradise” after a very large…

A Flea In The Frog’s Ear

Imagine the fright mask that the Sofitel Hotel maid's face turned into when a black swan in the form of an international banking poobah waddled out of the suite's bathroom with wings rampant. Black swans…

Love Roller Coaster

The Mendocino County Science Fair prompts a trip to the West Coast's roller coaster mecca, Magic Mountain

Ball Bear Cat Piano

Jon Miller, my favorite bard of baseball, recently used the words egregious, preposterous, cerulean, prodigious, and greensward whilst painting verbal pictures of our San Francisco Giants sweeping the Rockies and the Snakes

Reformers Shouldn’t Feel Betrayed By Obama

“Medical cannabis activists” and “drug policy reform” advocates are complaining bitterly that they have been double-crossed by Barack Obama. The Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board last week emailed an article that typifies the widespread sense…

Three Strikes & A Suicide

Dear Editor: The man in the cell next to mine hung himself yesterday. I knew him for almost four years. He had what I have: an unreasonable Three Strikes sentence. They dragged him out of…

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