I’ve sung this song but I’ll sing it again, about George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO, accepting Richard Nixon’s invitation to a party at the White House instead of leading a march of union members.…
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Ever wonder why Vet visits are causing folks to take out a second mortgage to pay for an office visit? Many people consider their pets family, so when a pet gets sick, they will often…
As an activist/organizer in the medical marijuana movement, Pebbles Trippet had a vested interest in ending prohibition: she was a migraine sufferer for whom smoking the plant provided relief. Excruciating headaches had onset in childhood.…
A couple weeks back the New York Times Magazine featured a laudatory article on the miracle of the opioid addiction medication Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone), itself an opioid), hailed first as an “orphan” drug initially…
I’m gonna charge tariffs You’re gonna have to pay And pray for your sad little 4 0 1 K You’ll do it my way I’m gonna close food banks No more surplus cheese Until I…
I have been fascinated by ancient Egypt since I was very young. I always knew I'd go there sometime in my life but now, at age 60, most of my life had passed and the…
For a decade or more Dave Eyster had been striding along nicely, doing well, sitting pretty, operating his local Inmate Prison Assembly Line with great efficiency, if not much compassion. But who wants a compassionate…
This is a photo of him in 1980, when he was 16. He’d had only a few seizures at the time. I don’t know if he had started on Dilantin – the first of many…