AV High’s 21st Century Dress Code
Why have a dress code? That is what the majority of the students at Anderson Valley High School have been asking lately. Many students feel strongly about it. That it isn’t right or it’s downright...
View ArticleRoad Notes July 2015
Denver-Las Vegas — I'd been to Reno and found it thoroughly unpleasant, what my friend Dave would call a "real dump." And, my old buddy Bob ended his life of substance abuse problems by overdosing...
View ArticleThe Stony Lonesome: Stereotypes
If I were a big game hunter, one place I would absolutely not ply my trade would be a zoo. It wouldn't be an honest day’s work. Not at all sporting, completely unfair, and unthinkable for a hunter of...
View ArticleMy Generation
Generally speaking, I’ve never much liked the affluent white boys of my generation. Didn’t much like them when they were young, and I like them a whole lot less now that we’re — I’m ridiculously...
View ArticleHumans Roar For Poaching Dentist’s Bicuspids
Minnesota dentist in hiding after killing beloved lion lured off of preserve.
View ArticleKayaktivists Delay Arctic-Bound Shell Icebreaker
Heroes valiantly defend planet from latest White House sell-out.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday, July 30, 2015
EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN ORDERED as crews with CalFire battle a fast-spreading 3,000-acre-plus (as of late Wednesday night) blaze in Lake County that has been dubbed the Rock Fire. A structure fire in the...
View ArticlePhysician-Assisted Dying: Honest Choices
Physician-assisted dying (not "suicide" — a term that is not truly relevant here) is a complex and emotional issue. Here is a perspective done with a leading physician with much direct experience — and...
View ArticleThousands Of Farm Workers Can’t Make A Living
At the end of the 1970s California farm workers were the highest-paid in the U.S., with the possible exception of Hawaii's long-unionized sugar and pineapple workers. Today their economic situation is...
View ArticleLondon Calling
There are cranes everywhere in London, and not just down in the financial center, the City of London. Cranes crowd the south bank of the Thames and the north. They are upriver and downriver. No...
View ArticleOld Cell Phones vs. Illegal Poaching and Logging
San Francisco company Rainforest Connection finds a new way to combat an old problem.
View ArticleThe End of Conversation: A Cartoon Sampler
"It keeps me from looking at my phone every two seconds."
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, July 31, 2015
ROCKY FIRE UPDATE. Late Thursday evening, CalFire reported that the large Lake County “Rocky Fire” (about 15 miles west of Lower Lake) was up to 14,000 acres with only about 5% containment. Almost...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sat., Aug 1, 2015
ROCKY FIRE IN LAKE COUNTY CONTINUES TO RAGE OUT OF CONTROL. Now up to over 18,000 acres and still only 5% contained. CalFire, 9pm Friday night: Evacuations: Mandatory: Jerusalem Valley area east of...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Cat People Are Psychopaths
Cat owners put their felines first, songbirds and gap-year gerbils be damned.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Aug 2, 2015
Rocky Expanding; Fires Aplenty; Neuroth Lawsuit; Guitar Shorty; Ukiah City Council-sitting; FB Grange; Catch of the Day; Hopland Furfight; Willits Wealth Management; Fair Entries; Pop Cop Quiz; Dwarf...
View ArticleLewis Carroll at the Beach
Sea Chantey (Oxford, 1861) There is an insect that people avoid (Whence is derived the verb “to flee”). Where have you been by it most annoyed? In lodgings by the sea. If you like your coffee with sand...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Aug 3, 2015
ROCKY FIRE DOUBLES IN SIZE OVERNIGHT: Most of the expansion in the direction of the prevailing northeasterly wind. Now up to over 54,000 acres with no containment in sight (but no new structure...
View ArticleBelief in God is Mental Illness
According to the American Psychological Association, it's crazy to believe in a higher power.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Aug 4, 2015
Rocky Jumps Highway; Lightning Fires; Murder-Suicide; Mendo Rubberstamp; KZYX Headless; PD Headlines; Yesterday's Catch; School; ROTR 2015; Preventing Fish-kill; Political Issues; Different Brains; Tax...
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