Birthdays
Obama, Percy Shelley, Louis Armstrong, Helen Thomas. These are the people with the same birthday as mine, the ones I choose to claim. Not Sheldon Adelson, who fits perfectly in Las Vegas and hopefully...
View ArticleYour Fellow Americans
Trump supporters battle equally brain-damaged Republicans in contest to prove Darwin was wrong.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday, Aug 7, 2015
Taming Rocky; Nice Fire; Loretta Update; Jail Money; Foster Kids; PG&E v Solar; Passenger Trains; Bobcat Trapping; Catch of the Day; Camp Reality; Surfer Leila; Pittman Bridge; Confucius Library;...
View ArticleUndercover Operation Goes Oakland Wrong
A recent shooting demonstrates the bumbling surveillance efforts of Oakland cops and the Feds.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sat., Aug 8, 2015
CALFIRE LIFTS MOST ROCKY FIRE EVACUATION ORDERS; Huge Lake County blaze stops growing, now 50% contained CalFire Declaration: As of 10am Friday August 7 the following streets will be removed from the...
View ArticleThe Disaster Rescue Business
Well-heeled travelers can summon Green Berets and helicopters while poor people wait and pray for help.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday, Aug 9, 2015
Rocky Contained; FB Wrongs; Noyo Bridge; City Crisis; SF Squalor; Buzzword Project; Liberty's Arm; 128 Closures; Fairly Wanted; Grapes v Eggs; John's Place; Catch of the Day; Allman Honored; Monster...
View ArticleThoreau It All Away
Technophobia -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond, 1854 We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas, but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday, Aug 10, 2015
Jerusalem Fire; The Beast; Too Many Trees; SF Quake; Cycling; Campaign Financing; Skydiving Contest; Police Exculpated; Side Straddle; Adjustable Mortgage; Dangerous Jobs; Perseids Peaking; Catch of...
View ArticleThe Grateful Dog: What A Long Delicious Trip It’s Been…
How the Grateful Dead was instrumental in the vegan dog revolution.
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday, Aug 11, 2015
Jerusalem Fire; Breakfast Burrito; Documentary Reviews; Forestry Practices; Trivia Quiz; Social Host Ordinance; Trumping Shills; Yesterday's Catch; Summertime Blues; KMUD Fun; Dinnerstein; Poison...
View ArticleHack & Squirt Chat in FB
August 11 at 6 pm: Linda Perkins, Bill Heil & Fire Chief Ted Williams will lead a discussion of Hack & Squirt and other forestry practices. Tuesday evening, starting at 6pm, at Town Hall, Main...
View ArticleNavarro Summer Concert
September 5 CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE BAND (6 pm) Opening Band: The Black Horse Blues Band (3 pm) Tickets $35 Beer, Wine, and BBQ Served All Day TICKET OUTLETS: Dig Music - Ukiah Albion Grocery - Albion...
View ArticleHwy 128 Closures (Aug-Sep)
Caltrans to completely close 128 near the Sonoma County Line at night for weeks... State Route 128 Slope Protection Project — Night Closures begin August 24 at 11pm Sonoma County – On Monday night,...
View ArticleOpen Studios on the Coast
September 5 & 6, 11am - 5pm: Local artists from Mendocino to north of Fort Bragg are opening their studios in a special event during the holiday weekend. Watch demonstrations at the Artists' Co-op...
View ArticleOff the Record (Aug 12, 2015)
THE NAVARRO RIDGE murder-suicide last week took the lives of Valerie Ann Morales, 77, and Martin Charles Morales, 80, both of whom, we understand, were in failing health. He shot her, then himself....
View ArticleHelping Out Disabled Senior Citizens
Crystal Aikens had her day in court, a bunch of days that took up most of last week. The old girl seemed to revel in being the center of attention, although she was doing it the hard way. Crystal's...
View ArticleSoHum Pot Bank Probs
In a panel discussion on banking and the medical marijuana industry, Southern Humboldt credit union managers highlighted the legal challenges of complying with various layers of law. State Board of...
View ArticleDjango
On this first day of August, 2015, as darkness gives way to daylight and the cobwebs of sleep are swept away by a slowly dawning clarity of mind, I wonder what this deep silence is all about. Our...
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