Like some malarial recrudescence, the election season is back in our collective bloodstream. For these midterms, voting by mail–starting 7 May–will continue through the 29th. The big day itself, of course, is 5 June. I can’t think of June without thinking of Barbara Billingsley as Mrs. Cleaver–famously, the Beav’s mom. And I can’t think of […]
Incredible as it was, yes, it did happen right there on the world stage: both Korean leaders in jest mood, hand in hand, and casually tap dancing across both borders as if in a Seinfeld segment sketch. Wow !…what a performance…Kim Jong Un deserves an academy award for the stunningly cool manner in which he […]
From the De-militarized Zone (DMZ) of the world’s most reclusive and dangerous region: “Great Expectation” To reiterate the amazing writing skills of one of England’s brilliant writers, Charles Dickens. And William Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be…that is the question” from Hamlet, one of the Bard’s most famous plays. I raise the latter because […]
It took us three flights and 24 hours to travel 12 time zones—halfway around the world. But we managed our sleep in transit and were able to rise with the sun over the Caspian Sea on the morning of our first day. After an improvised brew of coffee through a tea maker, taken on our […]
I plopped down in my easy chair and turned on Channel 3 A manager called Salty Joe was a chasin’ Chief Hensley He trapped him in paid admin and said with an awful thrill, “Now, I’m not allowed to say anything, But I can fire you at will!” And then he was told to (and […]
When the Ritual ended, and all of our friends went home, all of our friends remained in the room. We had some drinking to do while all of our friends came home from Korea. We hoped they’d each complete their journey, and that a capricious writer wouldn’t somehow jettison one of them into the sea, […]
Another school shooting. After Sandy Hook–after the mass murder of first-graders–I thought that at long last something, anything, might be attempted by our esteemed Congress to stem the epidemic of gun violence. It turns out I’m a babe in the woods. And the wolf in the woods? You’re probably voting for him. It would be […]
Yesterday the Chief and I were in court yet again–this time to legally finalize our poisoned inheritance, the estate of our late son, Alex. Given the behavior of the Chief’s family, I can’t–at the time of writing this–predict with any confidence the outcome of the hearing. Over the past four years they have revealed themselves […]
There is a political race coming up in a few months. My boss, Tim Ward is running for re-election as Tulare County District Attorney. The challenger started his campaign by insulting myself and the staff of our entire office by stating he needs to “clean up” the office. Something Mr Ward has been attacked over […]
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