I arrived early into Lawrence, Kansas, for Thanksgiving.  As I drove up the turnpike I called my old friends, Nan and Jerry. They weren’t home, and I left a message.  A short while later Nan returned my call and invited me to dinner with them, and to spend the night there.  “After all,” she said,…

One of my favorite blogs has a inspiring example of UC Davis students’ reaction to gratuitous violence by thugs wearing the uniform of the UC Police.  It is inspiring to watch how, after a completely arbitrary attack on peaceful students by a thug with pepper spray (watch) the students surround the cops chanting “Shame on…

I have been almost totally focused on the home stretch of my manuscript tentatively titled Faultlines: The 60s, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine.  This is really getting in the way of making frequent blog posts.  But I think some modified snippets make very interesting posts.  In this manuscript I argue…

Joe Walsh has made a name for himself as a “family values” Republican.  He has also made a name for himself as a dead beat dad who owes over $100,000 in child support, ignores court dates, and takes his girl friend on expensive vacations while claiming to be too poor to support his children. He…

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