Tourists in California are missing a great opportunity. Where else can you travel north-south on either of two major highways and be so close to so many prisons - pardon me, correctional facilities - some in plain sight. And not just any prisons. Famous prisons, notorious prisons, prisons immortalized in song.
Posts published by “Jeff Costello”
John Stephens on the rich person's view of the poor: “They just can't understand what a terrible burden it is to have money.” I’m a…
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. — Thomas (“Mental illness is a myth”) Szasz “…lunatics from the hospital up the…
Pete Seeger may well be the very essence of the earnest, self-serious folk singer. He seems to have built the mold. After a half-century of harassment by everyone from the local KKK in the small Hudson River Valley town where he lives to the House Un-American Activities Commission in the 50s, to J. Edgar Hoover himself, you could say Seeger has a right to be serious.
We no longer see or hear the terms Jewess or Negress, which are insulting in that people are put on a level with animals (tigress,…
In my youth, many if not most budding musicians had to fight their way through a lot of opposition, such as parents or other authority…
The “Question Authority” bumper sticker is obsolete. Authority has been thoroughly questioned — and failed the interview. The evidence of its failure is global, as…
When I was diagnosed with throat cancer, I read up on alternative treatments, of which there are many. Somehow I had a strong intuitive sense…
In the drugstore today I noticed a new (to me at least) product. I had to look twice, but the second look con-firmed what it…