Americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of deepening catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi, speed to the pharmacy to look for iodine and ask, “It’s happened there;…
Posts published in March 2011
Tooch Colombo isn’t like me, most of my friends and family members. When he wants to eat meat he doesn’t go shopping at Safeway or…
While president of Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson asked a group of alumni a provocative question: Would Abraham Lincoln have been a better president if he…
In 1967, there was a concert in Pittsburgh, with the Grateful Dead, the Velvet Underground, the Fugs and me, playing the part of a stand-up…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. “No power in Boonville” was the miserable word around the Valley last…
I met with Kelley in her classroom at the High School where she has worked full-time as a teacher’s aid in the Special Education Department…
The tumultuous managerial shakeup at National Public Radio headquarters for trivial verbal miscues once again has highlighted the ludicrous corporatist right-wing charge that public radio…
In one of the early Sports Notes columns, we boldly predicted that Roger Federer would become the greatest player in the history of the tennis.…
As soon as you give something a name, it begins to die, says an old Chinese proverb, and its corollary might be that as soon…
In the more than a third of a century since Douglas H. Bosco first carved himself out as a fixture of the California North Coast's…
ONE DAY AT A TIME Editor, J. Biro seriously needed a buzz. He could talk the talk but like everyone he knew would rather do…