disturbing the comfortable

To all of you who liked and loved Peter: He passed on 10/23/09 of complications from a routine colonoscopy. Though he lived in pain througho...

B.F.D. Let me repeat that: B.F.D. .

I had an op-ed piece in our local daily. In it I tried to counter the rabid-right's bullshit about health care reform. Death panels, ban...

through it and then put it back together. It works fine, once again. That's a good feeling. Now, if we could just take some people's...

Here's something out of South Dakota that broke my heart ...

When I was small, we lived right off Olympic Boulevard, down in L.A.. I spent a lot of time there, I remember it very well. When I was in co...

Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant and flawed man, as all men—and all women—are. I just read Annette Gordon-Reed's Thomas Jefferson and S...

Maybe it's because women were selected out of the machinery of our times. Maybe it's because they really are not men in disguise (th...

Not much to say about this: Hummer Owners Claim Moral High Ground To Excuse Overconsumption, Study Finds ScienceDaily (Sep. 25,...

General McClatchey—according to a report I saw—thinks we will need 500,000 soldiers in Afghanistan if we want to thoroughly trounce the trou...

We actually went out last night: a friend is in a sort of neo-Grateful Dead band here in town. First time I've heard them. The setting w...

Michael Moore has been a bright lamp for years. Witty, smart, insightful, and, above all, funky. He's a product of the working class and...