December 22, 2014 El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela, Chile, Columbia, Grenada, Panama and Mexico are the countries that US have meddled in that are within walking, sailing or driving distance to US. What the Tea Party and Far Right (Always Right?) Republicans are oblivious to is: the US has been either partially, or wholly responsible, […]
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November 11, 2014 On this day of solemn remembrance to those who gave their lives for people like Maurice Greenburg (of AIG), the exquisite irony of the American schizophrenia is again brought into sharp focus (at least for me). Says John Stevenson in his letter to the L.A. Times (to which I totally agree):
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October 26, 2014 I know that it has been quite awhile since I sat down and attempted to write something — but this semester has me studying like a grad student again, and, trying to imbue my students with some contemporary sociological theories so they can hopefully dig US out of the shithole we Baby
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September 15, 2014 Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream… This proffering has been a labor of love which I felt I haven’t been able to do justice to: mainly because I didn’t come to California in the fashion that I wanted to; nor have I always been able to live the Cali
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September 13, 2014 I have learned that if I use “key words” like Obamacare, or Hilary, or Time Warner Cable, in my essay titles — that the hits on my website are hugely augmented! I wanted to call this essay “The Confidence Game”; or, “Inflation is Just Around the Corner” – but I was hoping
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September 7, 2014 I have been talking to my classes lately about the shit pile we Baby Boomers have left them, and, that we still expect them to take-care-of-us into our increasingly extended, old age…that is if we don’t all get the Ebola virus and go-down-for-the-count – since there never seems to be enough vaccine
August 12, 2014 My son texted me yesterday afternoon telling me that Robin Williams had died. Aside from feeling profound sadness – I postulated a drug overdose. When my son suggested that it was a suicide by hanging – I countered by suggesting the accidental “sex choke”: he didn’t reply. But having just read that
August 11, 2014 A-few-years-ago I learned that when Giti and I had one of our very (very, very) loud discussions – usually in the quiet canyon evenings after a-couple-of-glasses of wine each (echoes of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson) – that probably both sides of the canyon (at least a square mile’s worth) could hear
July 30, 2014 More-and-more of Los Angeles is getting fed up with Time Warner Cable and Los Angeles Dodger ownership: the longer the Dodger ownership allows TWC to “play” everyone – the less we will be good-natured towards either-of-them. I know am arriving to this party a bit late – as I have TWC and
A Time Warner Hostage Read More »
Begun on July 4, 2014: Finished on July 30, 2014 This lil’ attempt has been one-of-the-most difficult of my life: as it brings my fear of Death; concern about the quality of my time spent here on earth; and whether or not I have maximized my relationships with everyone I know, to the forefront of
