James Preston Allen

Walking the Dog And Finding Community Wherever You Go

Conversely, simple facial recognition, an essential part of human recognition patterning, is active at the park, walking along Paseo del…

2 years ago

The Death of Camelot

If there’s one conspiracy that we can all be convinced of, it was the one in which he tried to…

2 years ago

The Intersection Between Labor Rising and MAGA

These workers who distrust the “elites” are kept ill-informed and continually keep getting tricked into voting for a man or…

2 years ago

Yet Here We Are, in the Middle of Another War

It seems like our country cannot long exist without being at war with some other nation, or even with ourselves―…

2 years ago

The Dream Was Delayed But It’s Still The Vision

While the MLK Dream speech is regularly misquoted by the right, the full meaning of that march was about “jobs…

2 years ago

Loss and Grieving in America

We aren’t very good at the grieving process, not very good at talking about it and much better at the…

2 years ago

And the Rockets’ Red Glare

The barbeques were lit, and the fireworks abound in every neighborhood across this city. From the perch overlooking both the…

2 years ago

Corruption at City Hall

First in my mind is that we believe we live in a strictly transactional economy which is heavily influenced by…

2 years ago

The Word on the Waterfront

The ramifications for the average family and the local economy around the twin ports could be severe if the PMA…

2 years ago

Mr. Greene Goes to Texas

It resembled an old-fashioned ballot box and on the top of it he etched the preamble to  the 1965 voting…

2 years ago