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A cold beer can sat sweating on the arm of my chair while I crunched away on some life-threatening junk food, Cheetos, Doritos, Lipocitos, whatever, I don't recall. Like millions of normal American guys, I was stuffing my gut, getting half shitfaced, plopped in front...
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Dirty Linen, Solar Dryers
by Bob Schildgen
We the people of the U.S. are the world's biggest energy hogs, using 25% of the world's oil with only 5% of the world's people. This is finally becoming known to a bigger...
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The Presidio, Pancho Villa and "Illegals"
by J.P. Bone
The Presidio -- a military fortress in San Francisco built by the Spanish, liberated by Mexico, and later seized by the United States -- recently ceased being a military base and became part of the National Park System. Ceremonies marking the transfer of the Presidio from military to civilian control were held at a spot...
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Part II The Winds of Change
by J.P. Bone
Though Ken Meade spent hours -- sometimes weeks -- alone in a ramshackle shack perched on the end of a pier, he did not become introspective, shy or introverted. Instinct taught him that...
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Clawing Through
the Blog Fog
by Bob Schildgen
Blogs are roadblocks on the information superhighway. No, that’s too nice. They’re billion-car pileups on the information superhighway.
They’re touted as democratic, and, yes, they do indeed afford you some magnificent choices on how to waste your time. And democracy’s all about choice, right? You can choose to be dumb enough believe the...
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A Prius in Every Garage
by Bob Schildgen
Now that Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has calculated that the cost of the Iraq war will approach $3 TRILLION, it's time to play with some numbers. We have already wasted $522 billion in Iraq,...
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Mailer, Vonnegut, Vidal:
Those Brave Old Lions Roared
by Bob Schildgen
This year we lost two of our greatest and most prophetic American writers, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, both at age 84. Both served in combat in World War II. Both hated war, and opposed...
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Honor Thy Ancestors
by Bob Schildgen
I have long been a savage critic of modern agriculture, because it poisons the environment, wastes water, exploits workers, tortures animals, demands billions of dollars in subsidies, and eagerly serves up cheap raw...
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Patriotism Betrayed: Reflections of a Military Parent
by Rob Ham
In many ways, my son is the “All American Kid”. He played little league and soccer. He was a Boy Scout and a Sea Scout and, from the time he was small, it...
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A Day at the Russian River
by J.P. Bone
FIFTY-FOUR or more brown pelicans squat on a sand bar where at this time of day the Russian River and the tides of the Pacific surge east and west. The...
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Remembering Freddie Hubbard
by Vern Thompson
In the early seventies I was a disc jockey at KJAZ-FM in Alameda ,Ca. (92.7). It was not unusual to play a set of music 45 minutes in length, since we had very few commercial...
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