Al-Qaida, Batman and the New Vanguardism

After a nine-day vacation in the northeast, mostly to Montreal to see my daughter, I’m back in SF in good health and spirits. Thought I might’ve posted while travelling, but it’s still not so convenient to spend time on-line when away from home. Lots to say about friends and places in the east, but this […]

Otherizing in Northern California

Spent the bulk of the long weekend at a bucolic bit of land west of the Mendocino town of Willits. The denizens call it “Witness Peak” and there is a spectacular small volcanic peak right in its midsts, along with a variety of rolling poison-oak covered hills, beautiful buildings built over the past decades, and […]

Thanks Billmon!!

Under the title “Things We’d Like to See” the inestimable billmon has given us a wonder… you can get a large version of this from his website, but this is too good not to put it everywhere…

Defendants in the dock at the Anglo-American War Crimes Trial of 2010, held at The Hague under […]