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Immortal Scars

        Last Friday night, at the exact time Vincent LaGuardia’s formidable life-force was leaving his body, I was putting the first real gouge into a piece of music gear I’d shepherded carefully. The Gallien-Krueger Neo 4×10 is a good, solid piece of equipment, maybe not the highest of high-end, but a well-made, [...]

Things Ignorant People Believe About Autism

  An “expert panel appointed by the American Psychiatric Association” is about to redefine autism The Potential Fallout: if you have an autistic child, your health insurer may no longer pay for treatments, or money for treatment through foundations may be yanked. Like I’ve said for years: when you read an article online, the real [...]

“Too Big To Fail” According To Elmer Fudd

So, in my ever-expanding effort to…well, I don’t know…I’m on page 329 of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail right now. It’s slow going: first, I don’t read nearly enough, and when I do, I try to retain what I read, so I read slowly. Second, it’s like War And Peace (which I admit [...]

I Took My 5-Year-Old To Occupy Wall Street-San Francisco

So…yesterday morning was foggy but clearing, and I did something I’d been thinking about for awhile. Like most people who casually check the news, I was curious about the real situation at the Occupy camps (at least the ones that were close), so I went to the Occupy protest at Justin Herman Plaza in San [...]

Movie Review: “Galaxy Of Terror”

 ”They’re not Alien ripoffs…they’re Alien homages.” ~ Joe Bob Briggs I saw Alien for the first time when I was around eleven years old. My mom, always a good sport about these things, actually woke me up at five a.m. (during the summertime) to watch it on HBO. My dad slept in his recliner a [...]

Fitting The Description

        Last night (or more precisely, early this morning), I had an experience that, in light of the Casey Anthony verdict, gave me a great deal of pause. It was a typical Tuesday night, and we’d finished up at JJ’s in Santa Clara. It was around two a.m.  I had loaded my [...]

My Mom

  My mother began playing piano for the Colorado Chorale in 1974. For those of you who don’t remember 1974 (technically, I was there, but was probably in diapers for part of the year), here’s a thumbnail sketch for you: The average cost of a new house was $34,900 dollars. The average yearly income was [...]

My Own Private Abusive Workplace

A family member confided to me yesterday that they were trapped in a no-win scenario regarding workplace bullying. There’s four people on her team, and all of them are women. Two of the women have decided they don’t like the third, and are engaging in a visible campaign to marginalize and harrass her, and it’s worked [...]

I Went To Planned Parenthood Once, Even Though I Didn’t Get An Abortion

    It looks like Planned Parenthood’s funding is safe for now.   On the Senate floor, Jon Kyl claimed over 90% of Planned Parenthood’s activity involves providing abortions:     I’m hearing rhetoric like this, and I think to myself, “But…I don’t remember anybody at Planned Parenthood for an abortion…when I went there.”   [...]

The Love Nobody Talks About

  Well, it’s Valentine’s Day again.   Expectations will be had.  Some of them will fall short. Dinners will be bought. Candy will be purchased. Movies will be watched. Much as with Christmas, people will strive to be their best selves. The poet Veronica Shoffstall famously remarked that “presents aren’t promises”, but it’s taking us a [...]