At Length

The Déjà vu of American Politics and Empire

Its death throes & a new civilization is struggling to be born      The problem with living a somewhat long life…

2 weeks ago

Is LA History Repeating Itself?: Progressive Socialism of the Early 1900s Returns

The second decade of the 20th Century was a cauldron of reform and social upheaval. President Teddy Roosevelt initiated many…

4 weeks ago

Port of LA Pipe Dream

MOU to Replace Vincent Thomas Bridge is Signed, But Why?   On a hot, sunny July 30 afternoon on the…

1 month ago

The Causes Against Tyranny of the Orange King

I took my brother for a birthday drink at Think Prime restaurant, where a good number of Republicans hang out.…

2 months ago

And the Clown Can’t Even Throw a Party—Fate would have it that the 250 celebration was canceled by heat and thunder storms

Not to be overshadowed by the FIFA World Cup or Taylor Swift's marriage—both global spectacles—the Orange Felon pressed ahead, defying…

2 months ago

Democracy is Still a Radical Idea

  I remember having to say the flag salute in high school and thinking, “What hypocrisy, liberty and justice for…

3 months ago

The Orange Felon Booed at Madison Square Garden ― More Circuses to Come for the Clown Show

NBC owes the country an apology and, out of fairness, should give equal time to the opposition to counter all…

3 months ago

A Matter of Deductive Reasoning

In the end, the things to watch for are the small type at the bottom of all print flyers and…

4 months ago

Do You Ever Wonder How We Got Here?

In the 1980s, there were some 60,000 blue-collar workers, men and women, working on or near the waterfront. Before the…

5 months ago

Earth Day at 56 Years

And our future could have been so much better Earth Day originated in 1970 as a grassroots response to industrial…

5 months ago