Altamont, the name brings shudders to the powers that be on both sides. I've seen it trashed by people who should know better and ones who don't want to know better. How do you handle…
Posts published in “Essays”
Response to a letter encouraging me to read a study on marijuana: It seems like you're trying to give me a sales job on marijuana — which I find odd, because you may recall that…
Westport & Albion, CA. Oct. 18, 2000. While Rush Limbaugh denounces her on his nationally syndicated show, bare-breasted poet/activist “La Tigresa” continues her “art attack” in defense of Northern California's remaining redwood rainforests. On Tuesday,…
“Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.” — G. K. Chesterton I don’t own a microscope; if I did, I’m sure I wouldn’t know what to do…
Take this as a national parable. Once upon a time–in the early eighties, actually–there was a progressive coalition in Vermont designed to become a third force in politics. One of its prime spokesmen was Bernie…
Not far from Stafford there's a thousand-year-old tree, once slated for destruction, that will now live on for centuries. Except for a pitifully small “buffer zone,” the primeval forest surrounding it will vanish while this…
The land war in Southern California reaches back at least to the early 1990s. In those years, the big developers — Pardee, Bren Home, McMillan, Standard American, and the Irvine Land Company were building sprawling…