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Jan.09.2012
Sunday was warm in San Francisco, for January: 65* F.  The news overnight was that an Occupy Oakland protest of police brutality had turned violent was disturbing.  Why had the organizers asked participants to come dressed in black.  Such dress is threatening, possibly provacative,...
alex-fraser's picture
Jan.07.2012
Woke up in the early afternoon, feeling marvelous.  After the epidurals, the whole right side of my neck is more limber, and I can look at the ceiling again without "assuming the prone position."  [A flashback to my Army days.] I had my banana, took my pills, used my inhalators, and went...
will-durst's picture
Dec.16.2011
The mad mud tossing between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, the last two Republicans still standing, is quickly ramping up to levels not seen since the Agincourt catapults. The candidates and their surrogates are busy dredging up dirt with fleets of front loaders, personally wetting it down with...