I'm an atheist. There, I've said it. You want to make something of it? I know a guy who's a bit of a bible-thumper. He's…
Posts published in “Essays”
Monday, 3:14pm — A friend calls to say that he is fed up with the stupidity and crassness of wage slaves happily voting to keep…
Rest assured, nothing is going to be done about this, but the news is still worth some cogitation. The new figures are out, and they…
I took the prescription sleeping pills before take-off but slept only in the thinnest intervals, perhaps one hour out of eight. This was to prove…
Early in the 1947 baseball season; the season Jackie Robinson broke in; a sweet spring evening in New Jersey; I turned on our under the…
It was a late summer afternoon in Anchorage, Alaska. Dale and I were outside, in the backyard of the small house we rented. We lived…
Was Rush Limbaugh high when he said, “There's nothing good about drug use. It destroys individuals’ families, societies, some might say this country. And we…
One of the most heated debates in the recall election centers on whether or not illegal immigrants should have California driver's licenses, with detractors of…
Alexander Cockburn and Bruce Anderson, legitimate recipients of mailings from the American Association of Retired People, hiked the arduously magnificent Sinkyone Wilderness Trail last weekend…