There are reasons I wanted to move here, and this is one of them. I went to a gallery opening tonight, literally just down the road, about a mile and a half away. The occasion was an exhibit of portraits of counterculture heros and heroines from the world of rock & roll in the glory [...]
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If only the tightrope were wider, dammit! Ah well. I was reading a very fine blog this evening when a chance reference to a geographical locale pushed all my buttons. The skeleton of my past reached up from the dark green water and grabbed me by the ankle, and the next thing I knew, I [...]
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Good morning, campers. Have you done your exercises yet? I’ve been spending my time looking for ponies in the manure pile. Very unsatisfying. Perhaps today will see some activity in another sphere. A very rare morning fog… It’s happening again, though. After all the glory of the rejection of Republican policies by the voters, some [...]
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Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) introduced a bill today that essentially repeals the worst parts of the Military Commissions Act. The proposed legislation is called the “Effective Terrorist Prosecution Act” and provides for the following: • Restores Habeas Corpus protections to detainees • Narrows the definition of unlawful enemy combatant to individuals who directly participate in [...]
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The entire post is well worth a read. In the middle of it, Arthur Silber writes: The Democrats won decisively on November 7 — and, just as in the case of Vietnam, they will do nothing to hasten the end of this murderous nightmare. They will be dragged out of Iraq screaming and protesting every [...]
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This one I really like. In case it escaped your notice, prominent eco-thug and seven-term GOP Congressman Richard Pombo, who has done some remarkably evil things, was defeated by wind energy consultant Jerry McNerney. There truly is a God. Read all about it here, and try this excerpt on for size: Of the two races, [...]
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I cannot believe Chris Matthews has never been the subject of an on-the-air intervention. And that’s the least of it. It’s been years since I sat through crap like MSNBC and CNN, and frankly, the shallowness and inability of virtually all newspeople, commentators, and incumbent politicos to reason beyond their prejudices is simply staggering. That [...]
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I can’t believe how long we’ve had to wait for this election. [whack, chop] Ahhh… that’s better, and thank you Barbara, who is absolutely right (see comments). Tomorrow morning my wife and I will walk from our rented adobe to the polling place at the Head Start center down the road. It’s probably about three [...]
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[Repeated from original 10-21 posting (since revised), this post is also my November column for Horse Fly. Thought it appropriate at this time...] The year was 1968. I was in the middle of trying to write my master’s thesis to get a teaching job when Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. Earlier that [...]
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The year was 1968. I was in the middle of trying to write my master’s thesis to get a teaching job when Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. Earlier that spring, after years of hard work and study, I’d won a three-year fellowship to the University of Hamburg, Germany. A direct route to [...]
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