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Posts published in “Essays”

Passing Strange II

Last fall I wrote a short piece, ‘Passing Strange,’ about the detention of my son, Franklin, by Customs and Immigration officials at Heathrow Airport. Franklin had flown to the United Kingdom in early September to…

HumCo Extends Dispensary Freeze

With legal issues unresolved and federal threats still looming, the county's moratorium on medical marijuana dispensary applications has been extended by ten and a half months. Unanimously approved at the Jan. 24 Board of Supervisors…

Images of Inhabiting the Social World

The following link is to the slides from a project I created for a class I am taking for my social work program. I could give you the back story but the images and short…

Memo Of The Week

To: The County of Mendocino, 501 Low Gap Road, Ukiah, California To whom it may concern: This letter is religious in nature. It concerns the City of Ten-Thousand Buddhas (CCTB) located in Talmage, California. Please…

Here He Comes Again!

Newt Gingrich is a one-man, made-in-America melt­ing pot. Here’s a committed devotee of tooth-and-claw capitalism, vultures perched on both shoulders, advocate of 8-year old black children working as janitors — cam­paigning with a pro-worker film…

Poverty As A Crime?

If all of the homeless people in the United States formed their own city, its population would be very close to that of San Francisco — about 750,000. About 40 percent of those people are…

The 49ers

The New York Giants defeated the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 after ten minutes of overtime in the NFC championship game in the rain at Candlestick Park Sunday afternoon. Earlier that same day the New England…

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