Signs of Conservatism in California
We recently drove up Interstate 5 from Los Angeles back home to Ashland. The highway passes through a vast agricultural region of rice, citrus, almonds, pistachios, beef and more. Most of these farmers...
View ArticleScallion Pancakes with Asparagus & Bacon
So now that Spring is officially here and the daffodils are popping, it is time to celebrate with a delicious and seasonal dish that makes the most of one of Springs most lovely gifts, asparagus. Ours...
View ArticleNorth Carolina and Demographic Gerrymandering
If Republican philosophy is so worthy, why do they have to fix the game in order to win elections? The recent Voter ID Law awaiting the Governor's signature in North Carolina is structured to restrict...
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The Grieving Room: My Dear Friend
I met Laurel in 1975. I was 23 and she was 20. We both worked at a little Mexican restaurant in Ashland, Oregon where I cooked and she waited tables. We wore skirts made of Indian bedspreads and tiny...
View ArticleJackson County, Oregon v. Monsanto and GMO giants
Jackson County, Oregon, is a largely agricultural county, home to numerous small family farms, a thriving Grower's Market system (multiple markets in multiple towns), acres of pear orchards, vineyards...
View ArticleWe kicked Monsanto's Ass!
Election night in Jackson County Oregon. One County measure 15-119 was a measure to ban the growing of GMO crops in Jackson County. We were outspent by Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and DuPont by more than...
View ArticlePolitical climate change
The appalling actions of Dylan Roof, intended to ignite a race war have instead, caused the removal of the confederate flag from the grounds of the capitol in South Carolina and the long overdue...
View ArticleFalling behind: Life in these United States
My friend, Emmy cleans houses for a living. She is a single mother with three children, two still at home. She is 38 years old and never had health insurance until Obamacare, for which she is very...
View ArticleJustice Scalia’s death and the spectacular hypocrisy of the right.
Ted Cruz, I’m lookin’ at YOU! Let’s suppose that our champion and advocate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away suddenly in February of 2008, in the final year of George W Bush’s term. (This is...
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January 6th was a new version of Civil War re-enactment
My daughter made documentaries while at film school in the early 2000’s, including one about Civil War re-enactors. She met this group at a Civil War Battle Re-enactment in California, site of NO Civil...
View Article2022 Prediction. Lots of Dead Republicans will vote.
Republicans have asserted without any proof, that millions of dead people voted for Joe Biden in 2020. They never explain how it happened. How did they get the lists of dead people who are still...
View ArticleCall Them The Party of Rape and Incest
A caller in to Thom Hartmann’s show yesterday had an excellent idea I’d like to share. Since the right wing calls us baby killers and murderers, we should refer to them as the party of rape and incest....
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