Can it happen here?

I fear I am largely allergic to poetry. Too often, it seems to flow at a pace and by a course that my mind doesn't grasp. (Since Erudite...

  She wants to know what's in there. She approached cautiously, then braved the narrow tunnel. What if there were something in there to ...

What if an American president gave a speech and nobody cared? That's what happened last night. I almost never listen to Trump; his bleet...

There's plenty of punditry going around in the backwash of the big day. For what it is worth, here's mine. This was big; there are c...

Sportswriters -- the good ones -- are different from other journalists. Well, maybe theater critics are also different in a similar way. T...

I'm always bemused when the MAGA-ites describe those of us who repudiate their vision for the country as mired in anger. Sure -- we thin...

No Kings, No ICE, No War. A few images:   The people assemble at the Embarcadero Plaza by the old clock tower and the new wire sculpture. An...

Much more tomorrow.

Janeway becomes possessive if one of us packs a bag for an overnight. She seems to ask: can I go too? No, you can't. Big Mio tries to as...

This week two different US courts found two monster social media platforms -- Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Google (YouTube) -- liable f...

... Sure is what this looks like. No fan of Gavin here, but this is on point. Let's remind everyone who raised gas prices.

An interesting observation from the Big Picture  substack about "the condition our condition is in" on the eve of another No Kings...

  I wonder whether this marker, which I photographed some years ago, has survived the Trump administration's disemboweling of federal si...

Thanks to The Ghost of Mark Twain  for this image of security theater. This will not end well. Calling the good folks of  Bellingcat to kee...