It's been 40 years since Nixon's second successful bid for The White House. It's also been 40 years since the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP) sent a group of rubber-gloved thugs to break in to Democratic National Committee headquarters at The...
Ink Stains May Wash Off, But They Don’t Wear Off
Warren Buffett, the greatest investor the modern world has ever known, just ponied up $142 million to add Richmond, Virgina-based Media General to his list of prized companies. Media General operates 18 network-affiliated television stations and their associated...
Pulling Muscles From A Nor Cal Shell
We took a marvelous land cruise to Northern California last month. The highlight of the trip wasn't the Southern Oregon coast, the redwoods, Mendocino County, or Marin. Those were highlights, but the highlight was having dinner with friends in San Francisco on Friday...
Don’t Think
Ray Bradbury is spectacular. His mind is immense and his advice for other writers is both generous and magnificent. In 2001, Bradbury spoke at the Sixth Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea, sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene University. He was 80 years old at the time....
Moving About the Globe Proves That You’re Alive, If Not Well
"Instrumental in traveling is the participation in it, the belief in progress, the witnessing of passage." - Dave Eggers Dave Eggers' first novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity, is a travel journal with a lot of internal gyrations, a.k.a. dialogue from the narrator,...