Passion Play

Tailgate Party for One in the Middle of Nowhere You got to have passion man. You have to feel it down to the bone. Nothing gets done up in the head. The near-enemy of passion is greed. “I don’t want a seat at the table, I want the table.” I am quoting a banker hankering […]

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Grappling with the Tease

Where Words Live We are editing Women of the Oak Savannahs. I’ll miss the syntactical twists that must be removed, the favorite phrase that has to go. You come up with a fascinating vein, you milk it too long, you cut the clever idea back until from the twenty sentences you started with you are […]

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Oakland’s Women’s March

Women’s March Oakland, California January 21, 2017 I’m reporting a magnificent experience was had by the five I marched with. A huge throng of people. The numbers have been all over the map. I heard one estimate 86,000 people marched. Look the new administration has alarmed people. And yesterday evening when the Trump’s press secretary […]

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Putinesque Trumpet Call

Weasels in Wonderland So, maybe it’s just me, but it sounds odd to my ear that Trump is bellyaching about the CIA’s analysts having come to the conclusion that Russian hackers at the direction Vladimir Putin had intentionally interfered with our election. After a week of cabinet picks that have more in common with a […]

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Working Peeps Pissed

Now that we got this populism thing in the groove… Brexit, Trumpistan, and now on  Sunday those wacky Italians joined in and have gone full Fellini. Grab your parachutes peeps. It turns out that all those trade deals we’ve been making since like say 1992 when a Democrat with the help of a majority of […]

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