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Autocracy Defeats Neoliberalism

Golden Gate Park a few months ago…

I guess it’s oddly appropriate to find myself two hours into the limbo of the jury duty room at San Francisco’s Hall of (In)justice. The clerks have ordered us to remain here several times while apologizing that the courts just aren’t ready for us. Pretty normal […]

A Numbing Spectacle

I’ve been away from the blog again, this time absorbed in preparing some new content for a 2nd edition of Hidden San Francisco, forthcoming in 2025. But I should be able to crank out a few posts in the next week or two… we’ll see.

The view from my petanque court…

I’m in […]

War Is the Air We Breathe

I’m sitting in an old 1830s farmhouse near the border between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. It’s over 90° and quite humid, as it has been since I arrived five days ago. It seems the heat wave will only intensify in the next days. I spent a lot of time here in the 1980s and early […]