Editor: So sorry to see the usually reliable Hank Sims degenerate into a cursing, bitching partisan on the issue of illegal immigration and the enforcement action at the bulb farms (“Town Dandy,” Sept. 11). As demonstrated in a statewide referendum (Prop. 187), and every opinion poll ever taken, the public does not support the open […]
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See the Slaughter
Editor: Thank you for the article on Wild Chick Farm, which hopefully encouraged people to consider the oft-overlooked fact that the consumption of meat and animal products is based on the daily slaughter and evisceration of sentient beings (“Table Talk,” Sept. 11). May I suggest that everybody who bases his or her diet on such […]
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The Other Candidates for President
The most exciting experience you can have as a voter is the write-in. It’s the only opportunity in the entire electoral process when you can actually call a shot. You get to customize your ballot. Maybe you’ll be taken off to the side and led to a small table, people in line wondering what you […]
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Pay Dirt
Over the weekend, the American economy fell deeper and deeper into what many were calling its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Another major Wall Street investment bank failed; yet another was rescued at cents on the dollar. Everyone turned to look at the insurance sector, watching for the next big collapses there. Venerable […]
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Fast Forward
Editor: While it may be easy to cast “The Sonoma Gang” in a negative light, it becomes a little more awkward to realize that any modern non-Native American who has a stake in this society must be a beneficiary of such things (“The Sonoma Gang,” Sept. 11). Unfortunately, the majority of our culture’s customs are […]
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The Other Candidates For President
It’s the rare alternative candidate for President who can lose horribly and still attain third-party glory and national fame. And that’s the Spoiler. It doesn’t get any better than that for an independent or third-party candidate. Knowing he or she can’t win, he sneaks up in a tiny paper boat, rams a hole in the […]
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Man Up
There’s something kind of curious about the fact that the latest raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the atrociously acronymed “ICE” — came only a few days after Willie Nelson played Humboldt County. One day after Willie, KHUM’s Mike Dronkers was asking, “Isn’t there anything besides Willie Nelson that can bring the hippies and […]
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Zero Sum
Editor: The article“This Time for Sure” (Sept. 4), on the proposed Marina Center, notes that Home Depot Real Estate Manager Brian Cannard dismissed the belief that a new Home Depot will displace smaller stores, saying: “My sense is, they sharpen their pencils and figure out how to survive.” And Security National’s Randy Gans noted that […]
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Go Electric
Editor: I would like to add to the article about scooters (“Stay Upright,” Sept. 4). I have an electric scooter which I plug into the wall at the end of the ride. My scooter looks like a Vespa, carries two at the speed limit in town, and is quiet. I definitely echo the great training […]
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Fair Play For Fascists
Editor: Noelle Andrade writes “it is outrageous … for this publication to dedicate space to an openly racist political party candidate …” and demands “an explanation/apology” (“Mailbox,” Sept. 4). I have an explanation: Free Speech! For Andrade’s edification, free speech means free to all of us, not just those who agree with her. I’m opposed […]
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Yesssssssss!
Editor: At first glance I was excited to see an article about the nude figure and its relationship to the artist, as I use the nude in my own work, but then realized it was just a superficial jab at what the figure represents in art (“Art Beat,” Sept. 4). The subtitle — “Nude portraiture […]
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No Comment
There is a great American song that goes like this: “Once there was a silly old ram, thought he’d punch a hole in a dam. No one could make that ram, scram. He kept buttin’ that dam. Cause he had high hopes, he had high apple pie in the sky hopes. So any time you’re […]