Senior Power
If you’re watching certain TV programs that treat grandma and gramps as doddering old folks then you need to read this. If the TV commercials that tout the new painless lubricated catheters via Chuck...
View ArticleChasing Jill Stein
Sometimes fate can fall into your lap when you least expect it. During the presidential campaign season I not only advocate for various causes, but I tutor and manage progressive candidates for...
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It Isn't Nice to Fool Mother Nature
It's Alive! It's Alive!!!! Science does have its drawbacks. One of them is how we view scientists themselves. For several generations, because of science...
View ArticleThe Time Is Now
The Time is now, and not tomorrow, to find that we can cure our sorrows.......The Time is Now© by Jerry Waxman 1960It's the first line of a song I wrote 53 years ago on the death of Billie Holiday. I...
View ArticleSix Not So Angry Women
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have...
View ArticleAlan Grayson at the Hungry i
“Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose-to make you laugh” W.C.FieldsIf you’re of a certain age you remember the Hungry i, the legendary San Francisco club where a...
View ArticleStoonts…..First? Don’t Make Me Laugh!
You have to love Al Capp. He was one of the most outspoken social critics of the mid twentieth century; he made no bones about it, and he did it through his art-the comics. He was the creator of Li’l...
View ArticleOh, What A Tangled Web…..
“Things are not always as they seem…”Back in April of 2011 I wrote an article called "Watch The Sound Of My Voice (Never Mind What My Hands Are Doing)" in which I alluded to our...
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Remembering Jane Kean
Author’s Note* my dear friend, Shayan Elahi, messaged me “It’s Thanksgiving. Write something.” Since we are both rabid fighters for social justice I’m sure that he expected me to write about the Simon...
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Emulating Gabriel Heatter
Author's Note-This was supposed to be a column about the monthly meeting of the Sierra Club and its program. It developed into something else and I was powerless to...
View Article"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
In B. Traven’s 1927 novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, part of the plot involved outlaws pretending to be police in order to murder the American gold prospectors for whatever loot they could...
View ArticleOut Of The Frying Pan
“Well, ya got trouble, my friend right here, I say trouble right here in River City*…..”In the musical The Music Man, the story’s central character, a con artist, convinces the town in turn of the 20th...
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