Bill Siemer grew up on a farm in Lassen County, played basketball at Shasta JC, went to Vietnam, became a newspaper reporter and then a lawyer and now considers himself a champion of the story that needs to be told. He lives on the bank of the river and takes pictures.
In reply to C. Gardinier: Do I smell a lawsuit?. C. Gardinier - I walked past you at the last county board meeting. You may want to take a bath because you smell like a nursing home.
In reply to Tuck Frump. Yes, it is true. This is not the kind of 'Thor we usually imagine. A lot of this stuff is genetic. Abuse doesn't help, of course, but it might mean the child got those cracked genes from the abusive nutball parent. A chip off the old block, so to speak.