Dinosaur Speak

behind me in the safeway café a man spends his days talking to an imaginary god i listen to him tracing his words with my plastic fork shove...

Because my avocation is to address the cause of the underclasses as I swoop through the universe, reigning terror on the ruling class and f...

"Jessica Kate Williams was 22 years old and homeless when allegedly 12 other homeless youth and young adults repeatedly stabbed her, s...

One evening in 1979, in Portland's well-known Goose Hollow Inn, Peter Fritch told me about a book he'd recently finished called A ...

It isn't always heavy-duty lit with me, day in and day out, studying the social and historical questions, banging away at injustice, in...

I used to be a big sports nut. I still am to an extent, but not the way I was as a youngster and into my twenties. I think my interest may ...

I think Henry Miller influenced me when I found him: "Since he eschews any importance at all to political movements, Miller feels free ...

Americans read this book and took it to heart, throwing John McCain and Sarah Stalin to the curb in '08. The bee in a bonnet effect sub...

Today is the sixty-sixth anniversary of D-Day, and the Greatest Generation is rapidly dwindling. We understand that fascism needed to be st...

In my quest to discover how and why things happen, I read. I like to read. I'm all for it. Surprisingly , not everyone is. I know a fel...

As soon as the saccharine and damnable Rose Festival clears out downtown, workers can begin to clean up and bring in the gardeners to refu...

According to Christopher Brauchli , Newt "Nuke" Gingrich is backing off his claim in his new book that the Demos are Nazis. ...

When I moved to Portland in 1977, a segment of the city's literary scene was centered around the Long Goodbye, a cafe/bar in the heart...

What's all this business about Swine Fools invading the country? People are acting crazy about some sort of imminent threat from Swine ...

Have you heard the one about the phony bomb detector in Iraq? An Al-Qaeda operative drives up to a checkpoint and an Iraqi policeman scans ...