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Mar 25, 2025

Open Mic: Driven & Riven, When a Car Drives Hate

It’s not every day one sees a Tesla surrounded by hand-painted placards reading “Deport Elon” or “F/Elon,” but that’s the tableau unfolding at Tesla dealerships in Marin and Sonoma.  These protests—part political outcry, part identity crisis—aren’t just symbolic acts of resistance. They’re reflections of a deeper rupture in the soul...
Feb 25, 2025

‘Normal’ Is Dead; Collective Grieving Begins

We are in a collective grief process. The old normal passed away. We are not getting it back, at...
Feb 18, 2025

Won’t Happen: No Great Expectations

As ridiculous as it is to write these words, Donald Trump is president again. His second term was propelled,...
Feb 11, 2025

In a World of Nonsense, Try to ‘Stop Making Sense’ of It

David Byrne and his Talking Heads concert film told us to Stop Making Sense in 1983.  Forty years later, it...
Feb 4, 2025

Trump 2.0, the Next Narrative

Americans have long been subjected to political and corporate sleight-of-hand, the creation of a narrative that says it is...
Jan 28, 2025

Atonement for Oligarchs Coming Sooner or Later

A recent study by the NYU Brennan Center for Justice, a watchdog group that studies election law and finance,...
Jan 21, 2025

Canine Copy, the Cloned ‘Winery Dog’ Controversy

The press release’s headline bellowed, “World’s First Cloned Winery Dog, Puppy Arrives in Sonoma County This Week.” I don’t doubt...
Jan 14, 2025

Let’s Let the Sky

Let’s Let the Sky A poem By Robin Lee let’s let the skyrelax a bit todaylet’s let the cloudslie a little lower let’s...
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