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Featured Archive
Pike’s Pique
Posted on November 21, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat social or psychological dysfunctions led UC-Davis police lieutenant John Pike to brutally assault some sitting, non-threatening protestors with chemical pepper spray? Clearly unthreatened and acting with a sociopathic coldness,...
Rick Perry and Race
Posted on October 3, 2011 | No CommentsIn the aftermath of revelations about the ugly name of Gov. Rick Perry’s hunting lease, some Democrats and pundits, including some friends of mine, are pardoning Gov. Rick Perry on...
Willie Nelson, America’s Voice in the wake of 9-11
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsTen years later – here’s the third of my Slate.com diaries written in the wake of 9-11. I’m don’t have any vintage photos to post with this one because I’m...
The Fall to Earth
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsTen years later the hallucinogenic events of September 11, 2001, remain enigmatic and nightmare-like. There is no shared, uniform view because our experiences of that day are so disparate. There...
I May End Up At The Poop Deck
Posted on September 9, 2011 | 1 CommentI recently made a trip to Galveston. I love some Texas Coast, and I had never visited the most notorious of Texas wharf towns. Each summer my daughter and I...
Adventure and Art: A Manifesto for Women and Grrrls
Posted on August 22, 2011 | 13 CommentsI believe grrrls and women should have adventures. And we should have the opportunity to experience the adventures of other grrrls and women through books, film, music and visual arts....
An Even More Modest Proposal
Posted on August 21, 2011 | 1 CommentJonathon Swift went too far in his “A Modest Proposal” (1729) when he proposed the eating of human children as a solution to Ireland’s economic woes and the plight of...
AMBULANCE: a short story. Part 3.
Posted on August 18, 2011 | 1 CommentA slender woman knelt beside me. Usually a civilian comes up to me at a scene saying he’s a volunteer medic out of Blanco County and I say, “Thanks, move...
Is Rick Perry Channeling Phil Gramm – - or Clayton Williams?
Posted on August 17, 2011 | 3 CommentsYipee ki yay… Mo-fo. Rick Perry is in! He’s FED UP! and he’s come out swinging. He’s attacking Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Social Security and Medicare, anyone who is anti-business...
Rooster Deathmatch: John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsJeff Bridges was morally unfit to serve in any John Wayne movie precisely because he was as wild and anti-authoritarian as the Ringo Kid, except that he stayed that way.