The Register has done it again. On the front page of the Sept. 28 edition, it has pushed illegal immigration as being necessary for the livelihood of the wine industry, it makes stealing IDs an acceptable practice, and honors management companies for skirting the law.

Jeremy Rifkin (a.k.a. "the most hated man in science" -- Scientific American, August 1997) is at it again with his Luddite views and latest pseudoscience book, "The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the World Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth." He advocates the hydrogen economy, which sounds great, yet currently the energy web he proposes is technically nonfeasible and to some physicists, it appears theoretically impossible. (Maybe we can violate some laws of physics?)

My wife and I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and recently returned for a short stay. The occasion was the wedding of our niece, one of three Korean girls adopted by my sister.

This is a response to Chris Craiker's commentary in the paper on Oct. 9 ("Mott understands Browns Valley issues") regarding emergency services response into Browns Valley.

As signs start to pop up on our landscape to announce candidates and measures, I have noticed that there seems to be a group appearing in American Canyon -- I'll call them the "three amigos." This is a very scary scenario. The American Canyon Chamber of Commerce, in its infinite wisdom, spelled it out in a recent press release: two or possibly three candidates are running as a "team," while a fourth awaits their election to council.

What would we call it if a baseball player gave the umpire a $25,000 check before sliding into home plate? What would we call it if a lawyer offered a judge a similar payment before he announced his verdict? What do we call it when a lobbyist gives a public official such a check before he makes the public policy that shapes the context of our lives?