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October 23, 2009
- Whenever it is Mid Winter (or at least not Summer) in my soul, I long to leave the now crowded, expensive, deteriorating Bay Area to head south into Mexico. I have been to a number of haunts there, including Guadalajara, Puerta Vallarte, Durango, Chihuahua, and Los Mochis. Each has its charms, but the place I most often dream about is Mazatlan, on Mexico's Pacific Coast. One of the reasons I like ...
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January 3, 2009
- President-Elect Obama still has seventeen days, by my West Coast time, before he has to assume responsibility for the shambles the Bush Gang, triumphantly greedy Wall Street "supply-siders," profoundly ignorant (mostly Southern, I'm afraid) Republican Congressmen, and timid go-along Democrats have left us in. It is they who have sent many troops, brave men and women (from America and a ...
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November 22, 2008
- The month of November, occasionally a disastrous time for the Nation, for my City, and for my loved ones, has been rather good to us this year. Barack Obama is to be our New President, and already his decisions appear (cautiously) promising. George W. Bush, the undoubted worst President in our History, is preparing in his habitually sly way to leave another failed job and move on ...
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November 9, 2008
- As President George W. Bush prepares to leave office, Laura Bush will take Michelle on a tour of the White House this afternoon, while he sits down for a face-to-face with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. The occasion is an opportunity for me to look back at Alexandra Pelosi's JOURNEYS WITH GEORGE, one of the first documentaries on George Bush, as he was running for the Republican ...
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October 31, 2008
- On this damp evening in San Francisco, I have just put up on my Author's Page a memoir and meditation on the first time I heard Orson Welles' Mercury Theater on the Air adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds." That would have been on Sunday, October 30, 1938 -- seventy years ago, last night. Back then, America was regarded with a mixture of admiration and indulgence. ...
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October 17, 2008
- In honor of Alex or is it Adam: I had not meant to post this whole review over here, but here it is. My health has not been good, but I could not resist an invitation from Larry French, the distinguished San Francisco film scholar, moderator of Wellesnet.org, to attend a press screening of Oliver Stone's new film about the life of George W. Bush: "W." The film was ...
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July 31, 2008
- This morning, the following news came over the AP wire about forcing Bush Administration Officials to testify under oath before the House Judiciary Committee, like any Ordinary American: ". . . U.S. District Judge John Bates said there's no legal basis for Bush's argument and that his former legal counsel, Harriet Miers, must appear before Congress. If she wants to refuse to testify, ...
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July 30, 2008
- Yesterday and today, two highly significant developments occurred in bringing President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to justice. Yesterday morning, Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens, 84, longest serving and most senior of Republicans in the Senate, was indicted on seven charges of lying to the FBI, by a Federal Grand Jury. Stevens, a man of immense power and clout, was ...
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July 29, 2008
- On this morning, I am drinking cold coffee, listening to the pigeons coo and make love on my window sill. Down Geary Street, a man is ranting passionately, but I cannot make out what he is saying. A car growls in my ear, and there is the odd whistle or siren. Soon it will be Noon, and an insistent recorded voice, over-miked and over amplified, will shout: "THIS is a Test! This is A ...
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July 27, 2008
- Something happened on Friday, July 25th, 2008!
The name of the House Hearings on Friday morning was "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations," and many of us watched the nearly six hours of proceedings on C-Span.
Though last month, Representative Dennis Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, and recent Presidential Candidate, had directed 35 articles of impeachment at President George W. ...
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July 22, 2008
- One of the nice aspects of the Red Room "Night of 100 Authors" affair at Tosca's last Friday was the diversity of the people who attended. Some authors looked barely of drinking age, others like myself were somewhat "more mature" in appearance. But there were, indeed, young and old, men and women, black and white, gay and straight, natty and rustic, Asian, Latino, Native ...
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July 17, 2008
- According to the Office of the Speaker of the House, the Bush Administration is drafting a proposed regulation which would curtail funding for domestic family planning centers that do not hire staff members who refuse to provide birth control. [Current law permits doctors and nurses to refuse to provide abortions in accordance with their religious beliefs.] Under this proposed ruling, ...
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July 16, 2008
- Yesterday, I posted among my articles at Red Room, the review of a small Australian movie, THE BANK, dating from the year 2002. The film was notable for its clear-eyed courage of expression, and imaginative logic, concerning Global currency and stock transactions, about a year after the hysteria engendered by the Bush Administration over 9/11. My review happened to feature a remarkable ...
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July 12, 2008
- Blog: Saturday, July 11, 2008: Hard to say if it really is those phone calls you and others have been making to the Members of the House Judiciary Committee, but Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi allowed on Thursday morning, in response to Ohio Representative Kucinich's simplified restatement of Impeachment, that Chairman John Conyers' Committee might well discuss the Impeachment Proposals ...
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July 8, 2008
- In honor of the 62nd Birthday of Our Decider, George W. Bush, which was celebrated quietly aboard Japan-bound Air Force One, this past Sunday, July 6, 2008, let me call your attention to a new movie, CHEMICAL WEDDING, directed by Julian Doyle (normally a film editor: LIFE OF BRIAN 1979; TIME BANDITS, 1981; BRAZIL (1985), and written by Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden fame. The Sci-Fi Horror ...
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