Why am I writing about Helen Gurley Brown, famed editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and a champion of sexual freedom or a promoter of sexual enslavement, depending on your particular socio-political orientation? Well, because Helen Gurley Brown just died at the age of ninety, and though many people consider her a traitor to feminism, and many others see her as a pioneering feminist and social revolutionary, Helen was one of the very few magazine editors in America in the 1970’s and 80’s who would publish my short stories about the challenges facing men and women in the chaos of sexual and social change that arrived with the birth control pill and the dawn of the feminist epoch; thus I have no doubt about where I stand regarding Ms. Brown’s place in the history of psycho-sexual discourse.
Posts published in August 2012
On Monday evening, August 13, the “Monitoring Enterprise” (ME) for the privately funded Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) came to Fort Bragg, the first of three stops on a vast stretch of California coast…
OUR SHERIFF ALLMAN was quoted by Glenda Anderson of the PD that he “agrees with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tough stand on illegal immigration,” a statement the Sheriff indignantly denied Monday afternoon and wasn't exactly…
The cause of death on Susan Keegan's death certificate has been changed from “accidental” to “homicide,” meaning that Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster has new evidence that the popular Ukiah woman did not die…
We were skeptical that Mendocino County’s freshly appointed Retirement Administrator Richard White needed a highly paid assistant given Mendo’s sorry fiscal state the day it was put on the Supes’ agenda for last Tuesday. White,…
Back in late June, gasoline prices were soaring near $5 per gallon when a big fuel tanker was topping off the underground tanks at the Redwood gas station in the middle of Covelo. A young…
THE CAUSE OF DEATH on Susan Keegan's death certificate has been changed from “accidental” to “homicide,” meaning that Doctor Peter Keegan better have the criminal defense lawyer he hired soon after his wife's highly improbable…