Ignoring Immigration Truth is Just Ignorance
I am agog at the number of people without any understanding of just why the flood of immigrants, especially from Mexico and other points south, keep coming into the U.S. If death in the desert,...
View ArticleWhat I Did In The War
I didn't serve in Vietnam, and thankfully I didn't lose any of those close to me that did. I sent others to that war; no matter how far down the line of diminishing responsibility I worked, that is...
View ArticleA Katrina Diary: Rico's Story
A few months ago I met a young man from New Orleans who swam for three days through unbelievable filth to find his family. And didn't. His name is Rico.
View ArticleFeminisms: Back to the Basics of Life and Death
I'll start by asking everyone to imagine that for millennia female babies have been born with a unique birthmark: a target. It appears in conjunction with female reproductive organs, female body...
View ArticleFeminisms: Roe v. Wade, and further
On this 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade I abandoned my original research into the origin of male-to-female courtesies that some of us find unnecessary, baffling, and silly. Lord Chesterfield, an...
View ArticleFeminisms: The Language That Edits Women's Rights
There's not much original in my reaction to the SCOTUS decision on Gonzales v Carhart--an attack on women's autonomy and power, a relegation of women to subhuman vessels for procreation, a callous...
View ArticleCan't Do Anything But Write, or Cry
Everything is making me cry. Not having a place to live, being accused of something bizarre by my daughter-in-law (wife of my Navy son, soon to deploy), 3,455 dead American soldiers in Iraq and then...
View Article(Almost) High Noon at the Shattuck Square Corral
Because I sometimes stay up all night, I'm one of the first to read emails from someone else that stays up all night. He's a former Marine, Vietnam veteran, civil engineer, and dedicated anti-war...
View Article"Whew! I Needed That!" Personal Political Wakeup
I've had a couple of cold-water-in-the-face encounters with the reality of politics and although they won't be news to anybody here (and really weren't to me--I just had persuaded myself beforehand...
View ArticleAfghanistan Can't Continue With Our Presence
Working with Afghan organizations I've learned that allied/U.S. air strikes killing civilians and U.S. support of Hamid Karzai are the two issues that anger Afghans the most. This is a...
View ArticleThe comment I didn't write . . . -
This paragraph is all I have time for right now, but here it is—I just (almost) finished watching and hearing Trevor Noah’s interview of that … forgot her name, I’ll look it up. I want to forget she...
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