In the footsteps of my ancestor Richard the Lionheart-
The wine is in my blood
I drank from its cup long ago
Blown to beach by storm
I sacked the island
for my shipwrecked bride
left the vanquished in silver chains [Read more…]
The wine is in my blood
I drank from its cup long ago
Blown to beach by storm
I sacked the island
for my shipwrecked bride
left the vanquished in silver chains [Read more…]
by Judi Curry
It has been no secret that I have been terribly lonely since my husband died seven and a half years ago. Our 51st wedding anniversary will be April 5.
I was married at 17 (to my first husband) and have been married many, many years over the course of my life. I really never lived by myself, and have always been a “pair.” The past few years have been very difficult.
Last night I was reading an article on how you can order just about anything from Amazon.com. I know that I have bought many, many things from them; have had food delivered both from restaurants and Amazon Prime. Just last week I even hired a handyman from Amazon.
So, I asked myself, why can’t I find myself a man through Amazon? I really have become an expert at online dating – I have 19 chapters of my book Liar, Liar completed, and all that I am waiting for to finish it is the chapter entitled, “She Lived Happily Ever After!” [Read more…]
by At Large
By Robert L. Schmidt
My novel, Natural Born Leader, asks the reader to believe a character — who looks like Cary Grant but has the mind of Beaver Cleaver — could compete neck-and-neck with a second character who is a New York real estate billionaire called The Ronald for the Republican presidential nomination (OK, based on the election it’s half a farce).
The movie The President’s Analyst asks the viewer to believe a U.S. president could need psychoanalysis. Welcome to another example where fiction becomes reality, because, based on The Donald’s recent wiretapping accusations, he does. Hollywood is big on remakes, but if they greenlight The President’s Analyst II, it should be a documentary starring The Donald.
The notion The Donald would ever seek professional help is as fantastic as most of his tweets, of course, mostly due to many of the disorders I’ll describe. The only “psycho-therapy” in The Donald’s immediate future will be the venomous rants of Steve Bannon. [Read more…]
by Doug Porter
Things are moving fast with the decaying orbit of the entity otherwise known as the Trump administration. Every week when I write this intro to the activism calendar, I wonder if this will be the week when the illegitimate presidency of #45 crashes and burns?
Having lived through the Watergate era, I have to remind myself how long it actually took for Nixon to fall from grace. Every revelation, every rumor, every press conference seemed like it would the one. And then it wasn’t. There is no addiction stronger than the quest for power, and the descent into despair takes a lot longer than any of us think it should.
The good news is that keeping the pressure up on Washington will bend the arc of justice in the right direction. The bad news is that we have a long way to go. So keep up the good work. And take care of yourself. [Read more…]
The Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce reported in their newsletter:
The City is proposing a residential development with more than 4,000 homes along Cactus Road and Siempre Viva.
The access for this new village is Britannia, which of course is an existing truck route. The Chamber has requested the City to explore requiring then housing developers to either build or contribute to adding the Heritage Intersection to SR-905. The City Council is considering adopting the Central Village Plan next Tuesday April 2nd. at 2:00 pm. [Read more…]
by Source
By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams
If You Can’t Fight ‘Em Join ‘Em Dept: Now that Congress has voted to sell your Internet history to the highest bidder – be it telecom giant, marketing company, Big Brother, law enforcement, pushy bank, vengeful ex or anyone with any questionable agenda – a new crowdfunding campaign wants to raise enough money to buy the histories of those GOP leaders and lobbying racketeers who sold yours.
The website searchinternethistory.com, one of several proposed resistance efforts, is trying to raise $1 million to bid on the browsing history – financial to medical to pornographic – of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and every member of Congress who voted to gut former Obama-era regulations protecting our browser history from corporate and governmental busybodies.
Some sold their souls and your privacy rights for as little as $300 in donations. [Read more…]
Fortunate Youth is a six-piece reggae band with roots in Hermosa Beach, California. Since 2009 it has toured heavily in the United States and overseas and its albums and individual songs consistently top the Billboard and iTunes Reggae charts. The band just opened up a nationwide tour to promote its newly released eponymous album; they’ll play 50 shows over 70 days hitting as many states as possible.
On March 18, just hours before the band played to a sold-out crowd at The Regent Theater in Los Angeles, I was blessed to meet with Fortunate Youth’s frontman, lead vocalist Dan Kelly, for about twenty minutes. We discussed the band’s new album, its maturation over the years, the stigma facing “white reggae bands”, respect for Jamaica and Jamaican culture, and finally, some of the obstacles in the music business. [Read more…]
by Doug Porter
Dangerous felons (with brown skin, no doubt) will soon be allowed to prowl the streets of California cities and towns, according to a newly organized group of elected officials pushing back against Senate Bill 54, the California Values Act.
El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells, leader of Mayors for Safe Cities says “SB 54 forces cities to shield violent serious felons — rapists and child molesters — who have served their sentence, are out on bond, or who are out on bail from federal immigration authorities.”
The website for this group highlights date rape, vehicular manslaughter, participation in criminal street gangs, shooting at an occupied car or home, burglary, assault with a deadly weapon as likely crimes to be encouraged by this bill.
Pretty scary stuff, huh? [Read more…]
by Source
By Alison Luterman / Rattle
In the beginning, we wept.
Well, some of us wept.
Some of us walked around stunned
as if pieces of sky
had fallen out of the sky and revealed themselves
to be chunks of blue plaster.
We examined the chunks.
We shook plaster dust out of our hair—there was so much dust!
We craned our necks and stared up. [Read more…]
by At Large
By Morgan Proctor
In just 23 minutes, it emerges that the range of issues confronted in Dead Mall Walking clearly and remarkably belong there, and the story of the mall is an intricate and absorbing one of profit-driven planning, the abandonment of communities, and the quelling of radicalized space. Dead Mall Walking is a revelation of the complexity of the ordinary in the late capitalist landscape, where so much in decay is a surprisingly complete metaphor for the failure of consumption-based culture. [Read more…]
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By Deidre Fulton / Common Dreams
Fifteen Democrats (and one Independent) remain undecided on whether to filibuster Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, according to one news outlet’s recent count.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee on Monday, April 3; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said that a vote to confirm Gorsuch will take place on the Senate floor on Friday, April 7. The Senate goes on a two-week recess after that.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called for a filibuster, which would force Republicans to win 60 votes for Gorsuch’s nomination. Thirty Democrats (including Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont) have said they’ll support the filibuster. [Read more…]
by Doug Porter
Southern Californians got some bad news this week with the release of a report from the U.S. Geological Survey saying two-thirds of beaches from Santa Barbara to San Diego could be completely eroded back to sea cliffs or coastal infrastructure by 2100.
The central culprit in this likely scenario will be sea level rise fueled by climate change. And current projections could double, thanks to “job-saving” efforts involving rolling back environmental regulations by the Trump administration.
The executive orders signed by the President on Tuesday instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to review the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration’s signature policy for slashing greenhouse gas emissions from the utility sector, by far the country’s biggest emitter. [Read more…]
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