Jan 23
It took a lot of stumbles on my part and a heap of patience on the part of the professionals at ACX, the Audiobook Exchange, but the second audiobook edition of my book Empowering Your Sober Self is now up and available. This edition updates my perspective on the LifeRing pathway to addiction recovery. The original …
Jan 23
By MIKE WHITNEY, reposted from Counterpunch by permission: JANUARY 15, 2015 Down the Plughole 40 Years of Economic Policy in One Chart by MIKE WHITNEY Growth of Real Hourly Compensation for Production/Nonsupervisory Workers and Productivity, 1948–2011 Is America in the throes of a class war? Look at the chart and decide for yourself. It’s all there …
Dec 26
My new book, From Trash to Treasure: The Splendors of Berkeley’s Cesar Chavez Park, is now off the press and available for sale on amazon.com. I really owe this book to a dog named Mosey. Sheila Jordan, my wife, rescued Mosey from the pound about 15 years ago. He lived for the chase of tennis balls. Our relationship …
Dec 21
I saw and liked this set of lyrics in an ad in The Nation magazine some years ago. Yesterday, the eve of winter solstice, I tried to find it online so that our little group of family and friends could sing it together. It wasn’t indexed in the magazine’s online archives. I also combed through …
Dec 08
On Saturday Dec. 6, I was part of an impromptu group that got together on the steps of the endangered Berkeley Main Post Office and sang a version of “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Hali Hammer, with the guitar, center, was the sparkplug for the event. I’m a row behind her, three people to the …
Nov 23
The second edition of my book, Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery, is now off the press and on sale via lifering.com. The text of this second edition corrects several typographical errors. The worst of these was the inexcusable misspelling of the last name of Jean Kirkpatrick, founder of Women for …
Nov 23
Ursula LeGuin’s acceptance speech upon winning the National Book Award, 2014: To the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks, from the heart. My family, my agents, my editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as my own, and that the beautiful reward is theirs as much as mine. And I …
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