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    Over a decade, sporadically. You write things I don't see elsewhere.
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  • I was working in construction in Northern California -- but before that I'd attended UC Berkeley. Under the shah, young…
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  • I just had the privilege of trekking for a week in the highlands of Nepal (Everest region). On the trails…
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  • We're simply not smart to cheer when the Reps go for the crazies. Many of these people will win and…
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  • You left out LGBT civil rights: C Progress on hate crimes, possible movement on ENDA, DADT, maybe .... timid and…
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  • Hey - that's a great message. I'm sure I'll borrow it. Was just getting read to read the Grand Junction…
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  • I honestly don't know -- was there, at the time of the Japanese internment, an active US constituency objecting to…
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  • We brewed beer when I was in college about 40 years ago. Did something wrong; we'd set it in the…
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  • Objective data says that US religiosity is strongest in the South and religiosity correlates with social and other aspects of…
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  • I attempted a comparison of our military with the French generals who did revolt against the authority of their President…
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  • Yeah -- I've been outraged since about 1962. Would have been outraged before that, but I didn't really get going…
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  • Folks concerned about the CIA should read Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes. Even on their own terms, our spooks have…
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  • Nothing changed ... but change is coming. In 1989, we lost a referendum in San Francisco that would have affirmed…
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  • Mike Allen's name is on this surprising piece on Palin's debate performance. ...it is hard to count any objective measures…
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  • The most important book I've read lately was Ahmad Rashid's Descent into Chaos. Since our coming hot wars are likely…
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  • If you want change, you have to force change. Obama will be as good a president for we the people…
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  • Trouble was, the seams were frayed to the breaking point. And our rulers like that just fine. Who needs messy…
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  • Booman -- I don't understand your attitude about this. Russia is a vast, rich, strong country that got the shit…
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  • This is a tremendously important overview. It's discouraging because most to the rising Senators date from a bad era for…
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