A Compliment From Westy
By Fred GardnerThe New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about...
Read MoreBy Fred GardnerThe New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about...
Read MoreFriday, November 22, was going to be my last day of civilian employment in Manhattan, barring a miracle. I was supposed to start basic training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, on Sunday the 24th. I had been an editor at Scientific...
Read MoreIn the AVA 4/20/25 “Stealing From the Rich: The Home-Stake Oil Swindle” by David C. McClintick (Evans, 1977) recounts how a Tulsa, Oklahoma lawyer named Robert Trippet masterminded the most lucrative Ponzi scheme of...
Read MoreThe removal of 381 books from the US Naval Academy Nimitz library last week was flashback-inducing...
Read MoreBy Bill Drake, illustrated by Terry Rutledge, calligraphy by Jim Drake. Published in 1970 by the Agrarian Reform Company, Eugene, Oregon.
Read MoreThe obviously pseudonomynous author of “Marijuana Girl,” N.R. de Mexico, “was...
Read More11/23/24 I voted for Jill Stein, of course, but I was rooting for Kamala Harris. Not for a noble...
Read MoreIn advance of tonight’s debate, the New York Times featured a “guest essay” by Donna Brazile in support of Kamala Harris. Brazile has the same Teflon coating that protected Judge Judy (AIDS patients...
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