Al Jazeera, the Mideast-financed news agency, reports today that allegedly billions of our U.S. tax dollars are supporting massive fraudulent profits of many U.S. Defense Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. The proposed scheme involves thousands of poor Indians and Nepalese working for U.S. Subcontractors. There is scant room in this Blog for details, but you… continue reading »

Last night as I had dinner at an outside table of a small ‘Little Italy’ bistro in San Diego, a very frail small dark man stopped before me and spoke so softly I could not hear his words. He was ragged, obviously poor, and utterly subservient. If he was acting out fake poverty, he was… continue reading »

John Kerry has admonished Russia for sending troops into the Ukraine. He says that’s not a 20th or 21st Century thing for countries to be doing. Is that not a bit of the pot calling the kettle black? Remember Vietnam? Iraq? Might not some back room observation instead work well in this situation? The US… continue reading »

One of the occupational hazards of believing you are a writer is to occasionally try to write something profound. Profundity comes to very few. I try to recognize this urge in myself as the ego-laden error it is. In forty years or so of skimming notebooks I have accumulated with writing I once considered profound,… continue reading »

Arizona legislators have sent a bill to their governor authorizing their state’s business leaders to refuse service to gay people, allegedly to protect their religious beliefs. It strikes me that any legislators attempting to create such a bill must be personally insecure about their own sexuality. Why else would anyone wield the shield of religion… continue reading »