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And On The Fifteenth Day…

And so they have ended. Maybe. And on the first day after the fourteen of the House Select Committee “Investigating” January 6,  the airwaves, print pages and cyber-spaces are zinging with words and thoughts about it all.…

Recalling Recall

You can be forgiven for having forgotten. I began my own forgiveness by reviewing a box of clippings gleaned last year. Yes, it was only a year ago that we had the opportunity to decide…

Books, Books

Dear Rebecca Mandelstam, I’m responding to your “Dear Friend” letter, which I received via e-mail yesterday. First, I hope we are “friends,” in some sense, or at least might be, should things work out appropriately…

People’s Park, Berkeley

In the southwest corner of the 2.8 acres of unbuilt land in Berkeley known since April 20, 1970 as “People’s Park,” there grew a tree which I planted there that morning. An unlabeled sapling, about…

Plugged Out

Not by accident. In fact, intentionally. I am not plugged in; I am plugged out. Every day, I see my opposites, who confirm my choice. They come into and out of my field of vision…

But… But…

The eight televised, three-hour meetings by the House Committee to investigate January 6 are over. There may be more, as early as September.  There may be a “Final Report,” as early as December.  It’s hard…

The Great Divide

Intentionally or unintentionally, Congress’ elected Democratic Party leaders have won the January 6 Hearings. No matter what testimony remains to come in the final session (or sessions), the creation of the Committee was a stroke…

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