Check out The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by McCoy. This was published in 1972.

LOSERS AND SUCKERS


Who followed McNamara and his lying band,
and their drumming General, Waste More Land,
who told us if we took a stand
Victory would soon be in hand
We'd be...

This is a letter I sent to all the members of the Board of Governors of the USPS.
They are a group of wealthy old white men who do not like be be in the midst of a huge controversy.
Perhaps...

Lives and Statues

Two letters appeared in the Press Democrat on Saturday, in response to the recent protests around the African American experience in the United States.

The first was a...

LET'S TALK LOOTING


Over the past 60 years, whenever there has been an uprising in the Black community that involved destruction of property, a reaction against "looting" has been part and...

This from Wikipedia about one of the 20th Century's most influential thinkers, Ivan Illich:

In his Medical Nemesis, first published in 1975, also known as Limits to Medicine, Illich subjected...

Thanks for your appreciation--even if you remain unconvinced.

A couple of questions:

You are right that "40 shots in 18 years does not seem excessive...": How about the fact that 25 of those...

Which Side AreYou On?


When Ignaz Semmerlweis suggested in 1847 that washing hands between doing autopsies and delivering babies would lead to better results for mothers and children, it was...

Dear Maya,

So, my uncle was a Jewish communist union organizer in NYC who died in the Spanish Civil War.

I have never had any illusions about the duopoly and I am certainly not looking for any...

As the originator of this thread (which has certainly taken on a life of its own!) I am going to weigh in one more time.

I agree with Barry that one should vote for the candidate one most agrees...

Not to mention the Gulf of Tonkin and the "weapons of mass destruction". This is getting more than old.
Abraham

I guess it's time for me to step back in here.

First of all, I DID NOT suggest that "we should be happy with any of the candidates... just because they are women." I just said that they are a...

From the Press Democrat , June 8, 2019


Elect a Woman in 2020

There are currently 22 candidates for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination. They range from a former vice-president to...

I don't know why Mr. Mutz missed the event in Guerneville, but I have him speak about the Rodney King debacle and how much he learned from that experience and how it changed his outlook on law...

Why I am an “Anti-Vaccer”

Almost 40 years ago, while preparing for the birth of our first child, we received a letter from a close friend. He was very upset by our decision to have a home birth...

If we call them "adult centers", we might get raided!!

Those of us born in 1945 or before are not, in fact, "Boomers" and may not want to be put into that category.

Mario was a close friend of Rachael and Myself. We met in 1974, after he was out of the media spotlight and before he found his place as a teacher. He was one of the smartest and most compassionate...

by Abraham Entin
WaccoBB.net


“For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil,
There is one striking at the roots.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden


A month before the 2012 elections,...

Dear Carl (et al),

I realize that this thread is about Occupy, but Move to Amend has been brought into it a few times now, and I just want to clarify a few things about us as an organization and...

As founder of Move to Amend Sonoma County it is tempting to agree with Barry that focusing on one issue-ours-would be the best choice for Occupy. But that is not within the nature of Occupy, nor...

If Efren supports putting flouride (and industrial waste in the form it is used) into our water supply, we need to get him off the Board of Supervisors!

I went to the city council meeting tonight, gave them my card and offered to help them in any way I could in terms of drafting the resolution, etc.

Also, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is...