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I graduated from Stanford Law School in 1966 but have never practiced. Instead, I dropped back five years and joined The Movement, but it wasn't until the 1970's that I began writing serious prose. By 1978, I was too old to live on the streets and sweat out going to jail, so I got a serious job as a GS-4, clerk-typist with the US Forest Service. I retired 23 years later, as head of the regionwide Claims Program in the California Region, headquartered in San Francisco for 20 years and then moved to Mare Island, in Vallejo. (That early school training always catches up with us, sooner or later.)
I still live in the greater Vallejo area, and I still have radical politics. Last year my major project was contributing to the ending of the Iraq war, with a minor in ending the embargo of Cuba. This year, I'm a little confused, but what the hey, who's not?
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Friday, August 21, 2009
The News About the Internet, by Michael Massing SHARE
Over the past few months alone, a remarkable amount of original, exciting, and creative (if also chaotic and maddening) material has appeared on the Internet. The practice of journalism, far from being leeched by the Web, is being reinvented there"
The News About the Internet, by Michael Massing SHARE
Over the past few months alone, a remarkable amount of original, exciting, and creative (if also chaotic and maddening) material has appeared on the Internet. The practice of journalism, far from being leeched by the Web, is being reinvented there"
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Obama Piddles Away the Public's Option, By Glen Ford SHARE
The death of Obama's health care project was both ignominious and foreordained. This is what comes from duplicitous backroom deals and back-stabbing of one's most loyal supporters.
Obama Piddles Away the Public's Option, By Glen Ford SHARE
The death of Obama's health care project was both ignominious and foreordained. This is what comes from duplicitous backroom deals and back-stabbing of one's most loyal supporters.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Unconditional Negotiations, Now! SHARE
It is not necessary to wait until the US commitment in Afghanistan equals that in Vietnam or even in Iraq. The fact that Washington has been leading a military campaign to subdue the people there and create a friendly regime for almost eight years without success is enough reason to take the path of negotiations.
Unconditional Negotiations, Now! SHARE
It is not necessary to wait until the US commitment in Afghanistan equals that in Vietnam or even in Iraq. The fact that Washington has been leading a military campaign to subdue the people there and create a friendly regime for almost eight years without success is enough reason to take the path of negotiations.
Friday, August 7, 2009
IRS Audits Harvard Management Company’s Investment Activities SHARE
The IRS is examining questionable practices at college endowment funds across the country. The biggest of these funds is Harvard’s, where questionable practices have coincided with Jack Mayer, Harvard Management’s chief from 1990 to 2005, being paid as much as $7.2 million per year and some of Mayer’s staffers getting as much as $35 million over that period of time.
IRS Audits Harvard Management Company’s Investment Activities SHARE
The IRS is examining questionable practices at college endowment funds across the country. The biggest of these funds is Harvard’s, where questionable practices have coincided with Jack Mayer, Harvard Management’s chief from 1990 to 2005, being paid as much as $7.2 million per year and some of Mayer’s staffers getting as much as $35 million over that period of time.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Nine Ways to Make Money in the Art Market, by Richard Polsky SHARE
Tired of reading about how drug companies and insurance companies, Wall Street, corporations in general and international corporations in particular are screwing out of your hard-earned? Sit back and find out how the rich get that way in a field where success has always been straightforwardly and unabashedly defined by moola and…more moola.
Nine Ways to Make Money in the Art Market, by Richard Polsky SHARE
Tired of reading about how drug companies and insurance companies, Wall Street, corporations in general and international corporations in particular are screwing out of your hard-earned? Sit back and find out how the rich get that way in a field where success has always been straightforwardly and unabashedly defined by moola and…more moola.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
The Peculiar Class Solidarity of Barack Obama and “Skip†Gates, by BAR executive editor Glen Ford SHARE
Sean Bell and Oscar Grant were shot down like dogs, but that was none of Barack Obama's concern. But when a local cop racially profiled Dr. Henry Louis Gates as if he were just another Black man, Obama's world shook.
The Peculiar Class Solidarity of Barack Obama and “Skip†Gates, by BAR executive editor Glen Ford SHARE
Sean Bell and Oscar Grant were shot down like dogs, but that was none of Barack Obama's concern. But when a local cop racially profiled Dr. Henry Louis Gates as if he were just another Black man, Obama's world shook.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
E. Pluribus Unum, 2009 SHARE
This large scale mandala depicts the names of one million organizations around the world that are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship, social justice, and the preservation of diverse and indigenous culture.
E. Pluribus Unum, 2009 SHARE
This large scale mandala depicts the names of one million organizations around the world that are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship, social justice, and the preservation of diverse and indigenous culture.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Health Reform: The Fateful Moment SHARE
There is no stronger indictment of American private insurers or better example of the profit motive's corrosive influence on medicine than rescission. That insurers, even with political pressure for reform, would not forswear this practice in public hearings is stunning. It also illustrates how difficult a task it will be to transform the business practices of an industry that profits from discriminating against sick people.
Health Reform: The Fateful Moment SHARE
There is no stronger indictment of American private insurers or better example of the profit motive's corrosive influence on medicine than rescission. That insurers, even with political pressure for reform, would not forswear this practice in public hearings is stunning. It also illustrates how difficult a task it will be to transform the business practices of an industry that profits from discriminating against sick people.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Toys Will Be Toys, by Charlie Finch SHARE
In 1945, Japanese toy designer Mat Kosuge picked a tin can off the streets of Kyoto and fashioned it into a model of a U.S. army jeep, with a rubber band for a motor. Soon, Kosuge received permission from U.S. authorities to manufacture toy cars for the U.S. market, as a means of converting Japanese wartime factories to civilian use. Until 1947, these cars were required to be stamped "Made in Occupied Japan."
Toys Will Be Toys, by Charlie Finch SHARE
In 1945, Japanese toy designer Mat Kosuge picked a tin can off the streets of Kyoto and fashioned it into a model of a U.S. army jeep, with a rubber band for a motor. Soon, Kosuge received permission from U.S. authorities to manufacture toy cars for the U.S. market, as a means of converting Japanese wartime factories to civilian use. Until 1947, these cars were required to be stamped "Made in Occupied Japan."
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons, by Charlie Finch SHARE
An irreverent view of Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons, by the co-author of "Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula" (Smart Art Press)
Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons, by Charlie Finch SHARE
An irreverent view of Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons, by the co-author of "Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula" (Smart Art Press)
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Latin America on Edge After Honduras Coup SHARE
Presidents from around Latin America were gathering in Nicaragua for meetings Monday on how to reverse the first coup in Central America in at least 16 years.
Latin America on Edge After Honduras Coup SHARE
Presidents from around Latin America were gathering in Nicaragua for meetings Monday on how to reverse the first coup in Central America in at least 16 years.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting, by Arnold Relman SHARE
Arnold Relman is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. His latest book is A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care.
The Health Reform We Need & Are Not Getting, by Arnold Relman SHARE
Arnold Relman is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. His latest book is A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
A Visit to Shangri La, by N.F. Karlins SHARE
Shangri La is variously and mythically located in Tibet, China and even Pakistan. Karlins discovered it in Hawaii. Which comes as no surprise to most Californians.
A Visit to Shangri La, by N.F. Karlins SHARE
Shangri La is variously and mythically located in Tibet, China and even Pakistan. Karlins discovered it in Hawaii. Which comes as no surprise to most Californians.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Sacred Monster by Jerry Saltz, an artnet Magazine Article about Francis Bacon SHARE
Those who knew the artist -- some of them his friends -- described him variously as "devil," "whore," "one of the world's leading alcoholics," "bilious ogre," "sacred monster" and "a drunken, faded sodomite swaying nocturnally through the lowest dives and gambling dens of Soho."
Sacred Monster by Jerry Saltz, an artnet Magazine Article about Francis Bacon SHARE
Those who knew the artist -- some of them his friends -- described him variously as "devil," "whore," "one of the world's leading alcoholics," "bilious ogre," "sacred monster" and "a drunken, faded sodomite swaying nocturnally through the lowest dives and gambling dens of Soho."
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Pakistan on the Brink, by Ahmed Rashid SHARE
"The present scare was set off in mid-February when the North-West Frontier Provisional government signed a deal with a neo-Taliban movement in the scenic Swat Valley, a major tourist resort area about a hundred miles from Islamabad, allowing the Taliban to impose strict sharia law in Swat's courts."
Pakistan on the Brink, by Ahmed Rashid SHARE
"The present scare was set off in mid-February when the North-West Frontier Provisional government signed a deal with a neo-Taliban movement in the scenic Swat Valley, a major tourist resort area about a hundred miles from Islamabad, allowing the Taliban to impose strict sharia law in Swat's courts."
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
Open-wheel racing on road to recovery SHARE
After 13 years of being unfavorably compared to other racing organizations, the Indy Racing League has shown during the current economic crisis that it must be doing something right.
Open-wheel racing on road to recovery SHARE
After 13 years of being unfavorably compared to other racing organizations, the Indy Racing League has shown during the current economic crisis that it must be doing something right.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
"Great Artists Steal" an article by Jerry Saltz SHARE
"Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world....It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. After its hothouse incubation in the '70s, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -- even if it's now close to esthetic kudzu."
"Great Artists Steal" an article by Jerry Saltz SHARE
"Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world....It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. After its hothouse incubation in the '70s, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -- even if it's now close to esthetic kudzu."
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Why Darwin, A Book Review by Richard Lewontin SHARE
Richard Lewontin is a brilliant biologist and a Marxist.
Why Darwin, A Book Review by Richard Lewontin SHARE
Richard Lewontin is a brilliant biologist and a Marxist.
