Author: Fred Gardner

Breadbox

This breadbox –an old garage-sale score– was upside down when I unloaded it in Kenwood. And I wondered if the artist was camouflaging the map of Africa.  

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Fraud Ring

Fraud Ring

11/23/24   I voted for Jill Stein, of course, but I was rooting for Kamala Harris. Not for a noble...

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Donna Brazile

In 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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Our Times 11/23/22

Weed’s Black Neighborhood If you’ve only driven past Weed on Hwy 5, or stopped to take a photo of Mt. Shasta and have a cup of coffee at the Hi-Lo Cafe, you might not have known that the town had “a thriving...

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I So Affirm

I So Affirm

 That’s what freethinkers say when asked to swear to God, as I was asked in a Chicago...

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Chicago ’68

Chicago ’68

In 1968 my stock in peace movement circles was very high, due to the “success” of the...

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Robert Trippet

“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 the 20th century....

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