WHILE TRYING TO PEDDLE MY PAPERS in Albion, I was pleased to sight 10 or so hearty specimens of Genus Hippus Americanus, a species I assumed extinct, or now members of the Republican Party. I…
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“Nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little.” E.B. "I live where I live for the landscapes and seasons, the place of it, but also for the time of it…
THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE HAS DISPUTED a General Accounting Office report that marijuana planting is on the increase on federally-owned land. The Forest Service says the number of plantings in forest areas has actually decreased…
THE SHOT AT MENDOCINO COLLEGE brought some heated phone calls several of which sputtered off into squawks, squeaks and bat screams as telephone service between Boonville and the outside world continues to deteriorate. Often, when…
MARINE CORPS boot camp in the late fifties was fifteen weeks of beatings, humiliations, insults, and torture. The idea was to break recruits in San Diego before they broke somewhere else where there was shooting.…
THE DISHONEST AND INCOMPETENT PUBLIC BODIES: The Grand Jury; The Board of Trustees, Mendocino College; The Juvenile Justice Commission; Mendocino County School Board. THE BEST WRITERS ON THE WORST NEWSPAPERS: Tom Hine and Dan Hibschman,…
MY MY, AREN’T THE POT smokers getting self-righteous: Convicted Navarro dope grower, Don Lipmanson, has recommended antabuse for “the gang of three,” associated with the Anderson Valley Greens. Writing for the Commentary and apparently one…
SPORTS NOTES was presented with a terrible dilemma on a recent Saturday night, for the first time ever he had been invited to a “sweat.” A “sweat” is an ancient Boonville hippy ceremony wherein all…
YOU HAVE NOTICED by now that our alleged representatives, the people tribunes all look alike. It doesn’t matter whether Democrat or Republican, female or male, they look like a picture I saw once of Dan…