Obama – the anti-war President
So this is how the President’s Middle East Peace initiative goes. Obama treks over there, hat in hand, to apologize for America’s chronic evilness. He backs away from supporting Israel. On the heels...
View Article400 Cartoons, More or Less.
Thursday’s drawing will be my last regular cartoon for the Argus-Courier. Eight years, and some 400 cartoons later, I’m ready to step aside, hopefully to make room for some new talent. Since 2004,...
View ArticleZombie Pork
With all the angst over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” attention is drawn away from a recurrent drain on the Federal Treasury, which ranges from Federal meddling in the marketplace to legislator’s pet...
View ArticleIs Economic Growth Possible in Petaluma?
Historically, when the word “growth” has been uttered in the local cloisters of power, it’s usually been coupled with other words such as “surgical removal,” or “over our dead bodies.” Lip service is...
View ArticleTrauma: Healing the Hidden Epidemic
I’ve never viewed my blog as a marketing tool, except for perhaps advancing ideas, but I feel that the subject of trauma – especially Post Trauma Stress Disorder – is too important to ignore. I have...
View ArticleGod Bless the Cops!
Last week – along with about 25 other involved citizens – I completed the 10-week Citizen’s Academy course offered by the Petaluma Police Department. It was informative, fascinating and occasionally...
View ArticleListen, Share, Heal at the Resilience Cafe’.
The Bernstein Institute for Integrative Therapy and Trauma Treatment, in partnership with Aqus Community and Sonoma Coast Trauma Treatment, announces the Resilience Café, a public forum for the...
View ArticleThe Art of Pickling Fermentation and Other Food Alchemy
Alan Campbell and me on the set of the first episode of Spoiled to Perfection. In a past life – a few years after the era depicted in Mad Men – I was an ad agency creative and made a whole bunch of TV...
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