I wonder how Mark Twain would feel if he knew his novel Huckleberry Finn has been rewritten in such a way that the meaning of his book is entirely changed, and that such an execrable mutation of his work is about to be afflicted on the next generation of American schoolchildren.
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Six dead and Gabrielle Giffords, a 40-year old congresswoman hanging to life by a thread. In the wake of the lethal fusillade in Tucson Republicans came close to confessing to complicity by reason of incitement.…
With their re-make of True Grit the Coens have shot and stuffed the original animal: so often, in the sights of big game hunters, the Western species refuses to go extinct.
The Grateful Dead? Those guys and their fanatic, tie-died, permanently stoned followers? The band that made interminable music which a noted poet and writer I reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle called “unspeakable, self-indulgent dreck”?…
YOUTH WANTS TO KNOW Anybody? How many laws does it take to make and maintain a civil society? The law library of congress says our laws are uncountable. Now, I don't believe that, but perhaps…
This week: Right-wing nutters & Tucson, Mexican Dreams in Latyonville, iPhone man-beaters in Ukiah and much more
IN A WILDLY diverse community like this one, there isn't much that a large majority of us might agree on. But it's safe to say that almost all of us do not want to lose…
When you want to find out about what’s going on at the jail, go to the Sheriff. He’ll gladly give you a tour. But, as my friend Franz says, “after the Den Mothers and Cub…
An index of AVA stories, letters and comments about our small claims suit against Supervisor Kendall Smith.