Just discovered Joe Bageant ...here's to appreciating his (sometimes long-winded) perspective .... AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? Ignor...

[Introducing a new writing series: "Forays into US Culture".] Through the window of my temporary home office, a flash of b...

April 18, 1996, Israel Defense Force shelled a UN compound in Qana, south Lebanon, killing 106 and injuring 116 of the 800 civilians seekin...

I wrote this article for Csaba Polony's publication, Left Curve, No. 36, 2012 issue. Occupy… and Defuse Capitalism's Handmaidens  ...

Csaba Polony, friend, editor and publisher of "Left Curve" journal, and core to San Francisco's North Beach literary crowd and...

There is a lot to say about Facebook. Yes, it is a sign of our times; it can be a time sink; yes, it has Zuckman - what more can be said abo...

Yikes! It has been more than a year since my last entry here. So much has changed/so much has stayed the same. I wonder...should I draw a h...