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“Carl Oglesby dies at 76; led Students for a Democratic Society,” was the headline on the obit in the LA Times. The description of SDS…
But first, a simple rule for killers: If you are going to murder someone in the United States, don’t try to get the job done…
Arcata’s Sai Center saga saw an eventful week recently as proprietor Steven Gasparas was evicted from his longtime lair, moved his cannabis business to a…
You may have heard about Cynthia Daily, a social worker using an interweb directory to keep track of all the children fathered by the same sperm donor who fathered her child.
#1. Watch this and share it with all your friends. It really is Cornel West speaking about the 40th Anniversary of the Attica uprising and…
The surprise visit from our landlord’s main man was not appreciated. Good thing I was midway through vacuuming up all the baking soda I’d sprinkled…
Across two evenings this week, we’ve been offered America’s future in a couple of visions. Neither of them offered the prime vitamin of bearable politics,…
Everything did change, not all at once, not in an obvious, visible way, at least at first, but the wheels were already in motion. Life…
Last week, over 50,000 people gathered in a Nevada high desert for a big carnival called Burning Man. “Why aren't you at Burning Man right…
One of my Anthropology professors was Nigerian, his people Yoruba. An exceptional student as a child, he was sent to school in England and eventually got his PhD from a prestigious American university.