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Yes, There IS a Future!

Happy end of 2025 and beginning of 2026! It’s a New Year!

The title is not merely a self-exhortation, though I suppose it could be read that way. It’s been three months since I last posted something to my blog. I did write an essay about the Rise and Fall of the Junipero […]

Real Crimes and the Coming Violence

An alpine glacier as I flew towards Milan.

I just enjoyed a get-away to Europe for almost two weeks. I spent three days with Mona at her place in southern Switzerland where I hadn’t been for 20 years, and another three days in a small town in the Italian Alps with my old […]

Whither Modern Life?

Recent additions to Democracy Wall on Valencia Street.

I’m immersed in reading all the time, and much of what has attracted my interest in the past year or two are books that try to explain how the structure of capitalism is mutating during this violent, chaotic and barbaric time. No doubt we left […]