And now a few words from the Too Goddamn Much Information department

At the end of an otherwise uninspired account of the trial of former Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen, the Times-Standard quoted District Attorney Paul Gallegos making the following candid admission: “I don’t get to have sex with my wife whenever she doesn’t say ‘no.’” While you take a moment to let that sink in, [...]

Happy birthday, Rose!!

Okay, okay. Maybe it’s not that funny when a duly elected district attorney misleads a criminal grand jury in order to get an indictment against two police officers–and not funnier still when, after being brutally bitch-slapped by a judge, said district attorney says he needs to think about whether he should continue his campaign of [...]

Humboldt County: beyond compare

The California Attorney General’s Office has released its long-awaited medical marijuana guidelines, and–who knew?–Humboldt County’s own guidelines far exceed them. While the state suggests limits of eight ounces of dried dank medicine and six mature plants, Humboldt County allows three pounds of the good stuff and up to 100 plants. Maybe Humboldt County growers patients [...]

Times-Standard goes all KKK over Wiggins’ ‘bullshit’ remark

“Cross fire”? Really?? So awesome! Oh well. When publishing 11-day-old news, primarily cobbled together from other newspaper reports, spicing things up a bit with colorful typos isn’t a bad idea.

Carson Park Mofo blows gold medal in Olympic blog-neglecting event

Carson Park Mofo, occasional administrator of the Eureka Standard blog, came up short Thursday in his quest for the gold in the Olympic blog-neglecting event. Mofo went 13 days without a new post, just three shy of the world record set in July by Mofo’s archrivals, the Humboldt Mirror bugs. “Team Mofo was putting up [...]

Good thing we’re not juvenile. Oh. Wait.

How did we miss this? Fired Blue Lake City Manager Wiley Buck will be replaced on an interim basis by retired Mt. Shasta City Manager Jeff Butzlaff. That’s right–Butzlaff. Is having a mildly fucked-up name some kind of requirement for the job?

When good acronyms go bad

Early-morning readers of the Times-Standard’s website were treated to yet another headline error, this one stating that “EDP” officers would be joining the Sheriff’s SWAT team. When asked if the Eureka Police Department had changed its name, Times-Standard ace reporter Thadeus Greenson said it had not, and explained that the newspaper was “experimenting with a [...]

Oh this could be fun

A friendly blogger from Memphis, TN, left a tasty tidbit in the Humboldt Mirror’s mailbox last week. He wrote, “I’ve been going through financial disclosures of a local CongressCritter John Tanner, and found that he made a contribution to Ms. (Bonnie) Neely, and made a trip to Eureka. I’m trying to find the connection.” He [...]

Welcome to the Humboldt Redwood Company. And oh, by the way, you’re all fired.

Business etiquette question of the day: What is the preferred communication medium for terminating the jobs of a few hundred people–many of whom have worked for a predecessor company for decades? Is it private conversations? Small- or large-group meetings? Personal letters? Evidently not. But if you guessed company-wide e-mail memo, you’d be correct. Management of [...]