Reflections on “Bobby” & Humans Rights Watch
In some part as a celebration after the elections, Lexie and I drove down to Santa Barbara to visit cousins …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
Frank Rich On Stage
We went to hear Frank Rich speak in San Francisco on election eve. He’s on a book tour for his …
Taha Muhammad Ali: A Poem
A friend of mine, John Huyler, has made it a practice over the years to read a poem every night …
Eroica
The San Francisco Symphony has produced a fabulous on-line exposition of Beethoven’s Symphony #3 in E-Flat Major; the Eroica. You …
Sunday Evening Moving On
It’s Sunday afternoon. Outside the hummingbirds are making last dashes at the feeders swung off the balcony rail. Once in …
In Translation
I’ve been away from political keyboarding for a few days, at a translation conference in Bellevue, Washington. Two hundred or …
Books In the News
Scott Ritter has a new book out: Target Iran: The Truth about the White House’s Plans for Regime Change. You …
Science Friday: Whale Story
From time to time it is good to talk about the evolution of a species instead of devolution into warring, …
Block Island Times Scoops the Plague
In one of my many “careers” I was the lead seaman on the Block Island ferry, a shallow drafted car …
Evolution Throws Us A Conundrum
If evolution, as so thoroughly described by Charles Darwin, is true, how do we explain Ann Coulter? In Darwin’s theory …
Woody Guthrie
I don’t have a lot of heros. Woody Guthrie is right at the top. For years I picked and sang …
Conservatives Without Conscience
This is a blockbuster interview of John Dean by Keith Olberman. Dean has just finished a book that started from …