For me it is life and taxes that are inseparable: I was born on April 15. Only when I turned forty, six years ago did my friend David Borden, founder of the pioneering synthesizer trio…
Posts published in “Essays”
After Paul Goodman’s death in 1972 anarchist historian George Woodcock characterized him as perhaps “the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation.” If we ask what made Goodman different from other twentieth-century anarchists in…
One of my guilty pleasures is watching sports highlights on my computer, many of which are prefaced by thirty-second ads for shoes, cars, beer, and the Army.
It looks as though eastern Libya will slide into the Mediterranean under the sheer weight of western journalists assembled in Benghazi and Misrata. A tsunami of breathless reports suggests that Misrata is enduring travails not…
The life and death of Eureka's Chinatown
A minute ago I was anxiously taking pregnancy tests, hoping. Now my son is nearly five. People told me that would happen. Of course I had heard it all before. But a lot of that…
Doug Bosco was at the leading edge of a new generation of North Coast Democrats with pro-corporate, fiscal conservative economic policies--an extractive corporation's best friend.
She had been a ballerina. She played the violin. She was a painter. A sculptor. More things to more people than I can possibly mention here. She had a way of embellishing the mundane with…