I arrived in San Francisco, via Oakland, in the winter of 1967, a few seasons into the “Summer of Love.” It was a world that shouldn’t and couldn’t exist. We smoked grass, dropped Owsley acid, experimented with psilocybin, peyote and mescaline. We “balled” who we pleased without fear of recrimination from our friends or [...]
Make no mistake. We are a nation divided. While the geography of this Civil War is different from the last one, the ideologies that create the divide are no so different. Look at the attacks on unions by the Republicans who are in control of state legislatures. What drives these if not the desire [...]
Sort of takes your breath away, doesn’t it? Ladies, we men can never understand the full pain of childbirth but you, thankfully, are spared the demonically transcendent experience of a sharp blow to the testicles. We are, both the sexes, each spared one venture into a world of indescribable pain. It’s some mysterious part [...]
I must say, I’m enjoying the Balkanization of the Republican Party. Sometimes in politics one gets to watch marvelous karmic things happen. I’ve grown used to watching my own party disintegrate and snatch defeat from the arms of opportunity. I have participated in endless debates about the relative virtues of ideological purity versus the [...]
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Maybe it was all those Republicans. It would be easy to blame them. There have been more global warming deniers in our state for the past year than is natural for any state. Nature responded by giving us balmy weather. Temperatures reached nearly sixty degrees this week. It didn’t work. The only [...]
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