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"Allan Goldstein lives in San Francisco with his wife, Jordan, and a minimum of two cats. His op-ed newspaper column,"Caught off Base," has appeared in San Francisco's West Portal Monthly for the past decade. Satire, invective and humor are specialties.
He also blogs regularly on opednews.com and on hypocrisy.com under the pseudonym Snark Twain. Other work has appeared in Spitball, The Baseball Literary Review, The Potomac Review, and several magazines including Rock and Gem and Pilot's Preflight. He is currently at work on his third novel."
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Loving the glorious relic that is baseball A love poem to a dying game, beloved of my youth and the blessing of my old age
Thursday, June 11, 2015Loving the glorious relic that is baseball A love poem to a dying game, beloved of my youth and the blessing of my old age
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
Hollywood's Great Generation Gap Fail Youth, they say, is misunderstood. What they don't say is that youth wants to be misunderstood. Being misunderstood provides an illusion of uniqueness. And it's hard to feel special when you Instagram your daily lunch. Old people are less misunderstood, except by young writers who don't get them. So here are a few clues. Maybe they'll make my next movie going experience less annoying.
Saturday, March 21, 2015Hollywood's Great Generation Gap Fail Youth, they say, is misunderstood. What they don't say is that youth wants to be misunderstood. Being misunderstood provides an illusion of uniqueness. And it's hard to feel special when you Instagram your daily lunch. Old people are less misunderstood, except by young writers who don't get them. So here are a few clues. Maybe they'll make my next movie going experience less annoying.
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
The Coming Income Inequality Election The happy, shocking prospect that this election could finally be about something.
Saturday, March 21, 2015The Coming Income Inequality Election The happy, shocking prospect that this election could finally be about something.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
The Word War II Delusion War is murder. Sometimes defensive war is necessary. But what gave us the crazy idea that war can have a happy outcome for everyone concerned? World War II.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015The Word War II Delusion War is murder. Sometimes defensive war is necessary. But what gave us the crazy idea that war can have a happy outcome for everyone concerned? World War II.
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Thursday, November 13, 2014
The Sissy Cynic's Guide to Ebola The cure for Ebola is already here, no doubt lurking in some laboratory, waiting to be tested, proven and deployed. It will happen in record time, and when it happens our response will be "about time." It will cause less jubilation than the launch of a new app. In America. In Africa I think they'll appreciate it.
Thursday, November 13, 2014The Sissy Cynic's Guide to Ebola The cure for Ebola is already here, no doubt lurking in some laboratory, waiting to be tested, proven and deployed. It will happen in record time, and when it happens our response will be "about time." It will cause less jubilation than the launch of a new app. In America. In Africa I think they'll appreciate it.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Soda Tax Liberals and Other Political Disasters The San Francisco Soda Tax: A good progressive cause? Or political malpractice?
Thursday, October 16, 2014Soda Tax Liberals and Other Political Disasters The San Francisco Soda Tax: A good progressive cause? Or political malpractice?
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Repeal the Second Amendment. If the people don't want guns in their society, they should have the right to ban them. Or, at the very least, keep them out of the hands of idiots who aren't sane enough to pass the Driver's Exam. But we can't even do that, because of the tyrannical, obsolete, absurd, outdated Second Amendment.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014Repeal the Second Amendment. If the people don't want guns in their society, they should have the right to ban them. Or, at the very least, keep them out of the hands of idiots who aren't sane enough to pass the Driver's Exam. But we can't even do that, because of the tyrannical, obsolete, absurd, outdated Second Amendment.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Failing the Edward Snowden Litmus Test. The job of our elected representatives isn't to persecute the whistle-blowers. It is to BE the whistle-blowers.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014Failing the Edward Snowden Litmus Test. The job of our elected representatives isn't to persecute the whistle-blowers. It is to BE the whistle-blowers.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
The Ultimate Meaning of All Life Revealed The last newspaper column you will ever read.
Monday, April 7, 2014The Ultimate Meaning of All Life Revealed The last newspaper column you will ever read.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Dear Hillary, Announce Now Hillary Clinton needs to announce now and remove any uncertainty about her candidacy. As long as she’s in the race, announced or otherwise, she’ll get all the attention on the Democratic side. If she’s not going to run, she needs to step aside immediately.
Thursday, March 13, 2014Dear Hillary, Announce Now Hillary Clinton needs to announce now and remove any uncertainty about her candidacy. As long as she’s in the race, announced or otherwise, she’ll get all the attention on the Democratic side. If she’s not going to run, she needs to step aside immediately.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
How not to make a revolution A leaderless revolution is a failed revolution.
Thursday, February 13, 2014How not to make a revolution A leaderless revolution is a failed revolution.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
A reluctant defense of Political Correctness A little love for political correctness, the ugly stepchild of cultural discourse. Political correctness,properly understood, is merely the code of honor, doing its essential work: holding society together in the absence of any other agreed moral/religious standards of behavior.
Thursday, January 16, 2014A reluctant defense of Political Correctness A little love for political correctness, the ugly stepchild of cultural discourse. Political correctness,properly understood, is merely the code of honor, doing its essential work: holding society together in the absence of any other agreed moral/religious standards of behavior.
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Monday, December 16, 2013
The Case for Market Socialism When an economy fails to serve the people it's a failed economy. The markets have driven global capitalism into a ditch. To fix it, we need some new ideas. Here's one.
Monday, December 16, 2013The Case for Market Socialism When an economy fails to serve the people it's a failed economy. The markets have driven global capitalism into a ditch. To fix it, we need some new ideas. Here's one.
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Ballots, Battlefields or Baseball The shameful confessions of a die-hard, left-wing baseball fan.
Monday, November 11, 2013Ballots, Battlefields or Baseball The shameful confessions of a die-hard, left-wing baseball fan.
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Monday, October 7, 2013
The Default Revolution; Occupy Default How do we make the default pay? We go on offense. Occupy the Default.
Monday, October 7, 2013The Default Revolution; Occupy Default How do we make the default pay? We go on offense. Occupy the Default.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Staying Straight in Sochi The Official Guide to Olympic Behavior from the Russian Ministry of Sexual Hygiene
Wednesday, September 4, 2013Staying Straight in Sochi The Official Guide to Olympic Behavior from the Russian Ministry of Sexual Hygiene
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The Unlovely Profit Motive Profit is the lifeblood of our economic system. But that doesn't mean we have to like it.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013The Unlovely Profit Motive Profit is the lifeblood of our economic system. But that doesn't mean we have to like it.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Supreme Court Schizophrenia When we say the Supreme Court has been politicized we besmirch the meaning of politics. They're fan boys for the GOP.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013Supreme Court Schizophrenia When we say the Supreme Court has been politicized we besmirch the meaning of politics. They're fan boys for the GOP.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
A call from Justice Justice is a universal human ideal. So why not build a society on that foundation? Why not reach for what we have always wanted? Why not Justism?
Tuesday, June 11, 2013A call from Justice Justice is a universal human ideal. So why not build a society on that foundation? Why not reach for what we have always wanted? Why not Justism?
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Perchance to Dream The patient has cancer, diabetes, heart failure, bird flu and gangrene is setting in. We have been diagnosed. Why doesn't it seem to make any difference? Is it perhaps because we're demoralized? Let's pretend, just between you and me, that there is a way out of our dismal reality.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013Perchance to Dream The patient has cancer, diabetes, heart failure, bird flu and gangrene is setting in. We have been diagnosed. Why doesn't it seem to make any difference? Is it perhaps because we're demoralized? Let's pretend, just between you and me, that there is a way out of our dismal reality.
