FROM MY CORNER One sunny day about 1970 or 71, I was drinking wine at a San Francisco North Beach outdoor café named Caruso’s, if I remember it right, with Richard Brautigan. If you don’t remember him, he was at that time a highly-acclaimed writer of genre-bending novels and poetry. Someone once called him, “The… continue reading »
FROM MY CORNER Nine years ago our top American business leaders forced the entire world into a recession. They did this by selling American subprime mortgages to Americans they knew could not afford them. They were aided and abetted in this by collaborating politicians, who had for years, tangentially, supported laws for full health care… continue reading »
FROM MY CORNER As the Rightist health care battle continues, it might prove valuable to consider the subject in an abstract context. It fascinates me how the American Left and Right see each other as such dangerous enemies. Both are rather like elegantly-dressed alley cats, always fighting over some piece of raw hamburger. The utter… continue reading »
FROM MY CORNER The 2020 presidential election is not going to be about making America great again. America has never stopped being great. This election is going to explore how to demonstrate that America is great. America is geographically huge and essentially empty. Ninety percent of us live in large crowded cities. In between are… continue reading »
FROM MY CORNER (To comment online, click the following Link): https://howellhurst.com/2017/07/07/the-g-20-dice-game/ The G-20 Summit strikes me as little more than a well-scripted advertising bonanza containing about as much political authenticity as a back alley dice game. The primary winners are world leaders and TV media moguls. The world leaders get an international stage to… continue reading »
