Sunday, August 12, 2018

CHARLOTTESVILLE: A CAUTIONARY TALE

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by Deborah Kahan Kolb The Nazis have returned. To Charlottesville, VA.         Pale wizards, frenzied mass, mad with purity. W...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SORROW IN YEMEN

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by John Guzlowski Dozens of children, many younger than 15, were killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit a school bus in nor...
Friday, August 10, 2018

AN ATHENA FOR MODERN TIMES

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by   Elane Gutterman Marking the 25th anniversary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s appointment as a Supreme  Court justice . Wieldi...
Thursday, August 09, 2018

DARWIN AT WORK

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by Howard Winn When watching orangutans in nature documentaries, it is easy to imagine them as graceful rulers of the canopy; to whom c...
Wednesday, August 08, 2018

IF ONLY ORCAS ATE SEAWEED

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by Linda Stryker The orca named J35, or Tahlequah, carrying her dead calf on the seventh day. Credit: Ken Balcomb/Center for Whale Rese...
Tuesday, August 07, 2018

CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE FIRE MAP, AUGUST 2018

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by Ron Riekki Source: CAL FIRE for Zachary Schomburg and Nick Flynn “Where the hell is global warming?” — DJT “The roof, the ...
Monday, August 06, 2018

THE WORDS MATTER

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by Tricia Knoll McKibben warns us loud and clear. Stop pussyfooting about climate change. Say, shout, shriek, yell Climate Crisis ....
Sunday, August 05, 2018

A BISHOP RESIGNS

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by Jack Belck “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” by Michael D’Antuono Priests’ upward gazes to God go also downward to where wild male animal...
Saturday, August 04, 2018

OUR FAR-FLUNG FOOTSTEPS

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by Devon Balwit I came for the beaches but stayed for the O rings, for the liter bottles, tooth brushes, buoys and bags, for the sh...
Friday, August 03, 2018

FIRE REPORT FROM DUFUR, AUGUST 3 2018

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by   Penelope Scambly Schott In the kitchen of the school cafeteria Becky and I stood at a makeshift counter slicing 140 heads of r...

POST-TRUTH VILLANELLE

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by Ned Balbo ‘ President Trump . . . can usually be counted on to blame “both sides.” Be the topic race relations, internationa...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

CRIME

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley T***p Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich  — The New York Times , July 31, 2018 I...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

SILENCER NIGHT: AN AMERICAN XMAS

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by Gilbert Allen A multi-state lawsuit was filed Monday afternoon that seeks to block a government settlement that  would give the p...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

“STRANGE FRUIT” SINGS ON

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by Renea McKenzie Nia Wilson Had Big Plans. Then She Was Killed in a BART Station. — The New York Times , July 25, 2018 ...