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…
Posts published in October 2000
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…
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”…
“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…
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…
Seventeen years ago I swore on my wife’s grave that I would keep our family together and watch our two baby boys graduate high school…
One of the saddest aspects of pesticide research is reading literature about the experiments performed on lab animals. Millions of animals are slaughtered every month…
School’s open again, this time with higher standards. Yep, we’re going to raise academic requirements despite the non-existence of a constituency to back them up…
Cell Block D, Mendocino County Jail, Ukiah — My home for the past 40 days is a barren, white metal room, compartmented into four cells…
Remember the papers eight years ago? A charming maniac entered the Presidential race as a third-party candidate in October. Over the final month of the…