Plays: If you live in Olympia, consider seeing The Revolutionists at The Harlequin. There I clever dialogue and it is well acted; Marie...

The Second Coming of the KKK Linda Gordon This book reflects with some detail the resurgence of the KKK in the Roaring Twenties when it...

This was found on a podcast available under Ezra Klein's label--It is an interesting interview with one of my favorite modern authors....

Downloaded News / Opinion: I regret to report the economic anxiety theory of Trumpism is back https://www.vox.com/2023/8/4/23818817/trump...

Cape Town February 9-15, 1994 I anticipated our landing in Cape Town for some time. This in part was a function of its isolation and...

My family joined me in 1994 on the Semester at Sea program: three months at see with a ship full of college students. This was our first...

Movies: this summer, drawing a blank…… Streaming: The Bear on Hulu is hard to watch but has fantastic acting. I could not binge it but...

The bottom image with the confederate flags celebrates the fact that kids these days want celebration trophies even when they lose........

Articles: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/opinion/inflation-groceries-pricing-walmart.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=arti...

Kernie and I were to go to Portugal, Spain, and France these last few weeks— a new trip that replaced a cancelled trip last year. On...

Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution by Gilbert Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau. A terse commentary on my Facebook landed on May 5, 2023:...

My behavior with Covid as a concern has arrived to a pre-Covid level. I am ambivalent about this reality. I have learned of a woman in...

1979 found me in my first year’s work as an MD. I was an intern at the county hospital in Salinas, California. The foundational...

May: News Links: Robert Reich: The Real Reason Social Security Is Going Broke – OpEd https://www.eurasiareview.com/26042023-robert-reich...

The Good Life. Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz In the 1930’s, Harvard University sponsored a study of people who had graced their...

Kernie looked at me with concern. We stood waving to a Cadillac heading away from the airport where we had been dropped off. Through the...

April 23. You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn Editorials: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/health/medi...