They were a rough-looking crew, the boys on the bus. To be fair, practically no one looks great at 5:45 in the morning, the time you have to show up at the Veteran’s Administration Outpatient Clinic in Redding to catch… Continue Reading
When you think about it, we’re all just a bunch of molecules flowing through a bunch of other molecules that occasionally congeal in an ectoplasmic singularity we wistfully call reality. Which is why I try not to think about it,… Continue Reading
American policing is at a crossroads. The recent death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department was just the latest in a long series of officer involved killings that have focused the public’s attention… Continue Reading
I am a superstitious man. When I chance upon a tarnished penny on the ground my fate hangs in the balance. If the coin is heads up, I pocket it and thank God for the good luck. If the coin… Continue Reading
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. –1 John 4:20 I like… Continue Reading
This was our first visit to the Riverfront Playhouse, and we were rewarded with a compelling rendition of Steinbeck’s novel about itinerant farmers fleeing Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
Director Samantha Fork intentionally set out to make Steinbeck’s classic relevant to today’s world, a task aided by the author’s Continue Reading
“What are you rebelling against, Johnny?” “Whaddaya got?” –The Wild One, 1953 Doug LaMalfa and I are Facebook friends, but I take it with a grain of salt. It’s not like we know each other, unless he remembers the time… Continue Reading
My brother is mildly famous around these parts for spotting stuff by the side of the road; dead animals mostly, rattlesnakes, deer, wild pigs, bear, but also tools, rope, money and once even a humongous rhino horn dildo. Occasionally he… Continue Reading
Sometimes, I wonder what the Shasta County Board of Supervisors and the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office have been smoking. Wasn’t it just six months ago they were telling voters that Measure A, by totally banning all outdoor medical marijuana cultivation… Continue Reading
I’m a sucker for lost causes and the State of Jefferson is more lost than most. The quixotic notion that a half-million citizens in northern California and southern Oregon’s rural counties, frustrated with lack of representation at the state level,… Continue Reading
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