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The Hitchhiker [December, 2008]

The hitchhiker was at the Boonville exit on 101. It was about noon. As I passed her she clasped her hands in mock prayer and shot me desperate eyeballs that pleaded with me to please,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday 12/16/2024

Road Maintenance | Highways Open | Rain Tapers | River Flooding | AVUSD News | Clouds | Empire Builders | Wesley’s Dumps | Ornamented | Deregulation Fiasco | Stoner Claus | Ed Notes | Hey Dude | Reindeer Boogie | Yesterday's Catch | Housing Crisis | NFC West | Family Matters | Weak & Stupid | Healthcare Tragedy | Authoritarian Oligarchs | Alternative Medicine | Michoacan Murders | Chicken Bird | Silenced Night | Dickens Abridged | Loving Trump | My Mommy | Sling Blade | Everything Forgotten | Middle Finger | My Views | Kaczynski Influence | Polly Jackson | Lead Stories | Explosive Mix | Climate Change | Death Throes | Eskimos

Off the Record 12/16/2024

ALWAYS AGREED with the pot brigades about illegal water diversions. Pot gardeners aren't even in it with the wine people whose diversions are not only much more numerous, much more voluminous, they're forever. The pot…

Rounding Third, Heading For Home

I'm not sure you can say it’s a shock if you know it’s coming, but I had known for a while that Ken Anderson was taking his final lap, and it was still a shock…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday 12/15/2024

Point Cabrillo | Highway Closures | Brief Calm | Winter Sunset | Great Saves | AV Events | Blue Victorian | Failed System | Pet Noel | Point Arena LLC | Headlands Carvings | Sculptor Kenyon | Mendo Alibi | Ed Notes | Grand Hotel | Yesterday's Catch | Exciting Enough | Newsom Watch | The Hit | Navy Wins | Shore Leave | Marco Radio | Face Cut | Tribal Statement | Rain Tumbles Down | Symbolic Capitalists | Raven | Debate Limits | Lead Stories | Gimme | Media Lunacy | Good Night

Letters 12/15/2024

The Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) has asked for public comment on a revised Forest Management Plan which will control forest activities for the next 10 years.…

Pearl Harbor Survivor [my annual remembrance]

Count me as one. I was two, my brother one, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. My brother and I were born in Honolulu, Our paternal grandfather, a Scots immigrant, was…

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