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Giants 3, Surveillance State 2

Bruce Bochy said Joe Panik sat for nine innings and then came up and squared the ball for a run and the win Friday night…

Our Man In Nepal

I finally got out of Kathmandu and am now in Bangkok with access to internet and a bed so now I can give you a…

Emily! Live!

Dreamers, schemers, dealers and profiteers go to Humboldt County to grow, sell and transport marijuana. They’ve gone there to smoke it, steal it, write and…

Gluten Trending

Anyone who has ever seen “The Pickle Story” episode of The Andy Griffith Show (first aired a week before Christmas, 1961) knows that there are…

Silicon Valley

Decades ago, I’d show up weekly to clean the Philadelphia apartment of a California transplant. Daughter of a Hollywood executive, Jacqueline confessed she had to…

Best Things

Best Thing I Heard All Week:  James McMurtry, Complicated Game. Hear them crabbers cuss the weather And they cuss the government too Nowadays crabbin' and…

Rave On

The Weather Underground wasn’t as crazy as it seemed, though at the time it seemed anything but sane. On March 6, 1970, three members of…

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