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.…
Posts published in March 2011
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…
From Washington DC we hear brave talk about Uncle Sam leading the charge for democracy across the Arab world, and thus restoring himself to high…