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Behind every bill that languishes in committee, there’s an untold number of stories: stories of people compelled to live crazy, parallel lives, people who, on top of their standard allotments of pain, have to cope with an extra systemic dysfunction, the only resistance to which is passive. To wit: my buddy and site host Dave, [...]

Love lists, but hate all that enumeration? Here are three albums that came out this year, and some sample tracks so you too, gentle reader, can enjoy some of what I’ve enjoyed this year. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information 3 I’m ill-equipped to describe jazz of any kind. On top of that, the [...]

The Senate version of the health care reform bill, that is. It’s time to pull the plug on this loser. That’s not just my opinion. Howard Dean, Darcy Burner, and Markos Moulitsas all agree it’s time to kill the bill. Why, you ask? Because it provides no real reform. It doesn’t provide any competition to [...]

Last week’s photo shoot went swimmingly. Quang Nguyen, my Jackson Street Sibyl, met me just before noon, and we made our pitch to three restaurants, two jewelry stores, one Vietnamese indoor-outdoor and one eyewear shop. Despite a cultural-level reluctance to say cheese, particularly among the older generations, every business owner save one allowed us to [...]

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