Vacation: Canada Blogging
Well! Imagine my surprise, after four days of trying and failing I just got an internet connection from Southern Alberta, …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
Vacation: 4th of July Rodeo in Jackson
The Fourth of July Rodeo in Jackson, Wyoming begins with John Wayne’s slow spoken rendition of “You Ask Me Why …
Vacation: Bear On the Trail
The cotton woods are in full shed these weeks along the Snake river riffling through Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Some breezy …
Vacation: Yellowstone Divide
We are feeling very divided today, crossing the Continental Divide three times in less than an hour — getting to …
Vacation: Time Train
Coming down the slope from the Bozeman pass east to Livingston, Montana, we look around, imagining. Once a shallow, wide …
Poems from Guantanamo
IS IT TRUE? By Osama Abu Kabir Is it true that the grass grows again after rain? Is it true …
The Six Day War, Some Years Later
The famous “Six Day War” of the Middle East –Israel against its antagoneighbors– has come to its 40th anniversary. The …
Fear Up Harsh
Tony Lagouranis was a soldier. An American soldier. An American soldier who tortured Iraqis. He conducted mock executions, forced men …
Tech Tip: Library Search Engine
I ran into a fabulous internet tool the other day. It’s called WorldCat, short for World Catalog, and is a …
Walt Whitman and Democracy: Theatre
For those of you in the SF Bay Area a couple of live theater events are worth your attention. Last …
Books:Nukes
Langewiesche is quite a writer as I can testify, having been mesmerized by his The Outlaw Sea. He’ll be appearing …
Monstering
I heard Tara Mckelvey, the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, …