The large demonstrations at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin are driven by a middle class awakening to the specter of its destruction by the…
Posts published in “Day: March 4, 2011”
RECRUITING THE DEAD TO WAGE PEACE Editor: They repose in a verdant park with manicured lawns, bright flowers and splashing fountains near Romaone-sous-Montfaucon, France. They…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Lets’ start off with my current favorite topic: Egg News. I find…
Editor, Dateline San Quentin State prison, South block, Alpine section, entry 2: Play now, Pay later. Picking up the pieces one day at a time.…
Having passed the bar exam earlier that year, in late 1984, the Mendocino County DA, Vivian Rackaukas, interviewed David and offered him the job. Although…
The seventh-grade classroom fell silent, before I noticed it and then it was too late; the teacher was standing over me and all the other…
Everybody has their horror story about unions. “Of course, he's union, so you can't get rid of him,” is the usual punch line after a…
When my teenage son and I bounced from Boonville in the middle of January we were merely embarking on a visiting mission — a vacation,…
Few things are more entertaining than defenses of the indefensible, as was proven by the charge of the lite brigade into the blathersphere earlier this…
Although very rusty, I'm range-qualified on the M-1 rifle, .30-caliber carbine, recoil-less rocket-propelled anti-tank weapon (bazooka), .30- and .50-calibre machine guns, M-2 flamethrower, Thompson “Tommy”…
“The poet’s only responsibility is to write fresh lines.”--Charles Olson With all due respect to the organization known as Poets & Writers, I have always…