Jul 26
Memo to the Oakland Museum: The Portland OR Art Museum has a popular special exhibit featuring modern bicycle designs. More than forty bikes are on display, ranging from the ultra-compact Sachs Tango, which folds up almost into a briefcase, to the Smith Long John, one of the first cargo-carrying bikes. There’s also the Taga, a …
Jul 26
Just returned from a short vacation and read, among all the other deplorable happenings, that the Administration sided with the Republican leadership in forcing up rates on student loans and in defending the NSA’s hoovering of private electronic data. (See New York Times July 25) This is not the “change” I voted for. This is …
Jul 12
I love it when an old friend makes good. Back decades ago when Joe and I and other troublemakers were running from one demonstration to another, we’d never have dreamed that one day Joe would have a gala reception for his work in San Francisco’s City Hall. But it happened July 11. Joe was there …
Jul 10
Living in the San Francicsco Bay Area means getting familiar with fog. Fog can be annoying and dangerous, but it can also be beautiful. Fog has graced many outstanding photographs. Local photographer Simon Christen has upped the ante on fog photography. Using time lapse techniques and positioning himself before dawn at strategic vantage points in …
Jun 24
As the parent of two kids (well, they used to be kids) who have student debt to pay off, I heartily endorse the effort behind this video. The proposed doubling of student loan interest rates highlights in a most glaring way the amazingly spreading gap between the 1 per cent and the rest of us. …
Jun 22
A hike with Grandma in Point Reyes brings us to a river, then to the endangered Drake’s Bay Oyster Farm, and then along the Estero Trail to a bridge under which we discover an unsuspected life-and-death drama. This is a video that gives the term “Crab Feed” a new and sinister meaning. Not recommended for …
Jun 20
The S.F. cops blocked the driveway to the parking lot where the rally started, claiming it was full, when it clearly wasn’t. I and many others had to park half a mile away or more and hike up the side of a cliff to get to the assembly point, and at first it seemed that …
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