And God said let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the foul of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth… Read full post »

Guns and Hate Speech.  

When are the civilised going to hold the uncivilised to account?

Any kind of debate on controlling and limiting access to assault weapons leads to irrational, misinformed and inaccurate parroting of the Second Amendment and irrational and paranoid fear of Governme… Read full post »

There is a slow rising anger here.  The lines are drawn and the hysteria is about to begin.  The Gun lobby will be screaming the ad hominem rants about Second Amendment Rights guaranteed to us by our Founding Fathers in the Bill of Rights.  The NRA will currently be in damage/… Read full post »

Kent State 1970 

(Thanks to Patricia and Astraia...from FB political discussion group for reminding me.) 

“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,

      We’re finally on our own.

      This summer I hear the drumming,

Four dead in Oh… Read full post »

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow

If you can establish the calibre of a person by the inanity, pettiness and stupidity of their critics then Rachel Maddow is top shelf, high gauge and first rate.  And I have to confess it was the… Read full post »

Ronnie Miranda got more than his share of raw deals.  

I’m not going to get into his family life or his upbringing.  Hell, we all have a some issues there and no one survives childhood and adolescence unscathed.  My parents did the best they could and I’m sure… Read full post »

Angst and Dark Love

Michael Robotham's novel Bleed for Me has been recently released in the U.S.

I am biased so let me be blunt.  I’m a fan.

There are no bad Robotham novels.  They are all good.  Some are just better than other… Read full post »

There are hand painted signs in each of the four windows on the second story--Open Door--Open Books--Open Mind--Open Hearts.  City Lights Book Sellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Street, San Francisco...the Left Coast.

It's a walk into history.  Laurence Ferlinghetti, Alan Ginsbe… Read full post »

Black Friday… a competitive shopper enters WalMart in Los Angeles and pepper sprays twenty shoppers, twenty of the competition.  Peace on Earth.  Good will towards Men.

Black Friday… a grandfather shopping with his grandson at a WalMart in Buckeye Arizona is tackled by p… Read full post »