My brother lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, so I'm visiting in the south, always creepy and exciting together -- the Confederacy, the other country inside the United States. We've been civil warring up and down the…
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Songs of heartbreak are flowing from down the hall. Why is it the heartbreak of youth seems so much more devastating than the heartbreaks we have subsequently? You remember being a heartbroken teenager. Don't pretend…
Since what is now going on is being described as “the greatest financial scandal in the history of Britain” — the Barclays imbroglio — I have a question to ask: Where are…
There are probably three wacky conspiracy theories for every one realistic account of the Bohemian Club. It doesn't help that what happens every summer at the Club's “Grove” campground along the forested banks Russian River in Sonoma County includes a bizarre mix of silly druidic rituals that only feed the rumor mill of Satanism and sexcapades.
In this time of economic crisis, in this time of war and unrest, would you sign a petition which uses the following provocative language? Whenever any government becomes destructive of the rights of its citizens…
KZYX Radio, Friday, June 29. Open Lines KZYX General Manager John Coate: Hi. You're on the air. Male Caller: Yeah. I got one quick question. There is a, um, I don't know what you call…
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” — Francis Bacon Sometimes it helps me to remember we are…
On the way back from downtown San Francisco the bus stops at the KFC-squared stop at Geary and Sixth Avenue. Kentucky Fried Chicken on the north side and Kaiser French Campus just across from it.…