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January 10, 2026

Funny Papers Again Column | A Few Rants on the American Political Landscape — Just One Man’s View

Steve Wilson
ā€œI think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.ā€ Well, the man that stood by that statement got...

Worthy to Print Column: They can do it

When I was a young man — oh, about 12 — I wondered why we even had to go to school. I got along with all my classmates and even liked my teacher, but on a day when the sun was out and the...

Guest Column | The American Dream: How We Lost Our Way on Immigration

In 1986 I worked for California’s Employment Development Department, where I processed amnesty seekers under President Ronald Reagan’s landmark immigration reform law called Immigration and Control Act (IRCA). The Watsonville office reviewed documents proving that applicants had worked in the local farming economy for...

Funny Papers Again Column | Crime and Punishment

For this week’s column I had a nice little piece forming about how to get on national television and make a fool of one’s self; based on personal experience, of course. But a situation arose right in front of my nose, or at least...

Letter to the Editor | Wake up, America

To the Editor: I submitted a letter to this paper published on April 2 (ā€œTime for Actionā€). Please go back and read it. Now I will continue. Trump: End war in Ukraine on Day 1? Says he ended seven wars somewhere? Everything will be better? Everything...

Funny Papers Again Column | Variation of Three Dot Journalism

When I was a lad I read the San Francisco Examiner’s renown columnist Herb Caen, the inventor of Three Dot Journalism; a form this column ofttimes mimics. Caen wrote his column as a series of items separated by ellipses … the word is Greek...

Funny Papers Again Column | ā€˜Buddy, Can You Spare Some Time?’

There is an ancient writing wherein one of the main players, thee Main Player for many, upon His exit from this earthly realm exhorted his followers to ā€œoccupy ā€˜til I come.ā€ So for the past 55 years I have occupied myself in more fields...

Worthy to Print Column | The Lone Ranger

George Worthy
It seems I missed the deadline for last week’s paper. I could go on and tell you about how I was captured by some of the folks swimming across the Rio Grande and held until Prez Biden paid for my release. Of course, you...

Funny Papers Again Column | Enough — Let Judgments and Flood Waters Recede

As a last look at this year’s storms, I mention that social media users have leveled harsh criticism toward the many people who either blatantly disregarded signs or misjudged flood conditions that required rescue operations; some of these incidents resulted in death. To such...

Funny Papers Again Column | The Travails of Patient and Customer

Steve Wilson
I am grateful for Mee Memorial Healthcare System, I really am. In the past decade I have had more contact with the folks there than I wanted to, but as one ages one must face the realities of natural physical deterioration or, as in...
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