Politics
September 1, 2009
- As someone who has built a life and a profession around fighting, it feels odd to say "I quit". Don't get me wrong. I'm not quitting life. Quite the opposite. Having over identified with the persona of an activist and a fighter, I have fallen prey to the all-too-common notion that if I'm not in a fight, I'm not alive. Unfortunately what I have learned these past couple years in a ...
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August 29, 2009
- We moved five times in just one year. I changed kindergarten only twice, though. We finally ended up in some apartments right off Stelling Road where Cupertino runs into Sunnyvale. I sat at the coffee table eating lunch one warm afternoon while my Mom was ironing and watching Robert Kennedy deliver a campaign speech in Los Angeles. All of a sudden, Mom started crying, hysterically. ...
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August 29, 2009
- "ASTRONAUT GOES FROM MIGRANT FIELDS TO OUTER SPACE"For José M. Hernández The boy squatting with a wood and wire crate In Salinas has finally risen Above his station, California almost Beautiful from this distance. Now when he bends To the heavy glass he’s hurtling through Vacuum cold as night on the desert When coyotes bring the families across In rust gnawed ...
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August 29, 2009
- After hearing the three most terrifying words imaginable, 'you have cancer' I was immobilized. Cocking my head side ways like a cockerspaniel that's just heard a whistle, I waited for him to say it again. He didn't. He knew the look. The 'stepping out of the shower into outer space' look a woman gets when she is told tomorrow will be her last day with a uterus. Although surreal and ...
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August 28, 2009
- I've heard many times that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, I'm done. I will no longer rise up in revolt against Rush Limbaugh or respond antic for antic to every racist, sexist, anti-Muslim, anti-Obama, rant where inevitably the same (and obvious) conclusion is reached everytime: "but that's insane".The truth is, while ...
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August 28, 2009
- http://www.tcm-ca.com/reviews/3165.htmlSharing a new review of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." Given the current climate of social discontent, I was pretty darn prophetic with my novel, if I do say so myself. Now if only I could apply this skill to determining the Lotto numbers, lol.
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August 28, 2009
- Doing 60, 90, 120…ignoring or liberally interpreting the yellow “RIGHT LANE ENDS, MERGE NOW” sign, the driver of a white pick up truck scattering gravel in the break down lane passed us and cut us off, the raised bumper inches from ours, the dual exhaust rumbling. I was captaining our station wagon. My beautiful wife sat next to me, her hand proffering reassurance to my shoulder. ...
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August 27, 2009
- When I heard Ted Kennedy had died, I immediately thought of Philip J. Schlessinger, a professor of political science I had eons ago at Los Angeles City College. I was able to track him today via the University of Southern California Alumni News, the Winter 2001 issue. There, it said, Schlessinger had been honored as a distinuished alum by USC for a 63-year teaching career, 51 of those ...
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August 27, 2009
- What’s wrong with the current system? Gross inefficiency, redundancy of services (generally lowering overall quality because the added programs lack adequate proficiency and don’t significantly improve access), irrational deployment of resources (i.e. too many specialists and too few primary care physicians, simultaneous physician gluts and shortages in different geographies, an ...
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August 26, 2009
- It is so tiring to see people take this conservative/ liberal thingy that is so popular to such ridiculous heights. Somebody must be making a lot of money on these rants. My neighbor wrote a letter to the paper full of vitriol about liberals. Who the heck is he talking to? In this small town America nobody here believes in murder, communism, the death of babies and taking away people’s ...
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