Jun 19
The Alameda County Department of Public Health staged its third annual Emergency Preparedness Fair in the concourse of the Oakland Coliseum this morning. Many dozens of concerned folks from various parts of the county gathered to take workshops, check out the vendors, and network. I got the most out of a workshop on the use …
Jun 09
Ed Snowden’s YouTube video identifying himself as the whistleblower behind the NSA data-vacuuming operation will probably be all over the web within a day, but I thought it was worth posting here anyway, just in case someone has missed it. This is worth listening to, particularly at a time when Pfc Bradley Manning is on …
Jun 08
Waiting outside the haircutter’s shop Waiting outside the haircutters’ shop For the women to come open up A little tabby cat homed in on me Seduced my hand with perfect trust Yielded to my thumb in her ears Permitted herself to be picked up Purred when I scratched her belly Oh, how lovely the curl …
May 25
This documentary focuses on a building on New York’s Park Avenue where the city’s richest people live. One of them is David Koch of the notorious Koch brothers. Koch not only finances the Tea Party and a series of right-wing think tanks and lobbying firms. He also bought his way, via 21 million dollars in …
May 18
One of the country’s leading education scholars, John Aubrey Douglass, presented an informative lecture this evening on the life and death of California’s higher education system. Sponsored by the Alameda County Office of Education, the lecture capped a visiting scholar series held at the Oakland Museum of California. Starting with a historical overview, Douglass showed …
May 09
The Berkeley Post Office is on the auction block in one of the slimiest backroom deals in the sordid history of pol-fin clubbiness. This centrally located building is a 99-year old architectural and cultural landmark, but it’s not just a building. OK, it’s just another piece of real estate, another sales commission to the mega-broker …
Apr 28
The photo shows something we almost certainly WON’T see in a real emergency: the Berkeley Fire Department. Saturday (4/27) was the Citywide Emergency Drill, and I joined other neighbors from this block and the next in a dry run of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) procedures. The neighbors a block away, who had been …
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