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Wednesday, August 25 2010 12:00 am |
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Mark Twain's autobiography is finally getting published -- almost one hundred years to the day after he wrote it. And from what I can tell after reading the book's advance reviews, Twain was also one hundred years ahead of his time, having apparently come back from the grave just in time to give us a much-needed warning about being wary of America's oligarchs and to nail today's corporatists for what they really are -- greedy bastards. And I think that it was also Mark Twain who said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Me and my daughter Ashley stopped by Arnieville the other night, where disabled people are camping out in protest of Governor Schwarzenegger's callous cuts to their home-care workers' salaries. |
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Monday, August 23 2010 12:00 am |
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In March of 2006, my son Joe participated in the American Indian Movement's Sacred Run, traveling from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. on foot -- and I joined him for the New Orleans leg of the journey. He ran. I drove. Joe ran through the Ninth Ward and he ran through the bayous. I drove behind him through both, getting a windshield tour of Katrina's incredible destruction. Following along behind Joe in my car, I saw the Katrina damage up close. "You think the outsides of the houses look bad?" someone in the Ninth Ward told me. "You should see the insides." |
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Thursday, August 12 2010 03:14 pm |
 Is Netroots Nation Taking On The Israel-Palestine Question? Er, Maybe...
One of the most untouchable issues in America today is the Israel-Palestine situation. Whenever I blog about this subject, I seem to lose friends — not to mention getting irate e-mails and death threats. No other issue in politics today seems to have such a third rail. But now things seem to actually finally be changing. For instance, this is the first year that Netroots Nation has actually agreed to host an Israel-Palestine caucus, which I attended — being very interested to see who would show up and also what their positions would be. Would we have right-wing rabbis screaming at us about Hamas rocket attacks? Would we have sad-eyed Palestinians in black and white checkered scarves mourning a homeland that they could never return to? Would there be confrontations or what? |
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Saturday, August 21 2010 12:00 am |
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Yesterday my two-year-old granddaughter Mena and I were completely at logger-heads. She'd already stubbornly refused to make nice at the library, a restaurant and an olive-tasting party -- and now she was refusing to take a bath. Ah, two-year-olds. I'm too old for this! "But Jane," someone advised me, "she's obviously rebelling against you because she is bored. She's tired of doing little-kid things and now she wants to do big-kid things." I'll just bet that she does. And what kind of big-kid things does she have in mind? Declare wars, get drunk, pollute the air and/or lobby to corrupt our politicians? "What that kid needs is to go to a pre-school." Hey, you might be right. So I trudged off to look at pre-schools for Mena. |
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Monday, July 26 2010 04:01 am |
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Last night I dreamed that I was interviewing Oscar the Grouch. But when I woke up, I discovered that it was only a leg cramp that had caused the dream. Do you know how to cure leg cramps? Here's how. Use an exercise that physical therapists call "The clam shell." Assuming that this evil cramp is in your right leg, then lie down on your left side, thrust your right hip as far to the left as you can go, bend your right leg half-way, and then move your right knee up to the ceiling and down to the bed or floor a few times -- like a clam shell opening and closing. Voila. End of cramp. |
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