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Give Me A Wildness No Civilization Can Endure

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles The wonders of the world in nature art and mind, by Robert Sears Gary Snyder writes: Thoreau says, “give me a wildness no civilization can

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Simon Rodia, Architect of Dreams

DONALD O’DONOVAN Los Angeles Nothing is so rare on the part of any man as an act of his own.                                                                             Ralph Waldo Emerson  In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the

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The Anthill Is the Mark of Social Disease

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Credit: R. Crumb Doc Sarvis makes use of an anthill to explain a larger social issue: “The anthill,” said Doc, “is sign, symbol and symptom

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Over One Hundred Jobseekers Stand In Line for LA Career Fair Bust

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles LOS ANGELES — Most of them wore their best attire while waiting in line with everybody else. A line of professionals, or those at least

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The Postmodern Jamestown

Dan Rudy  PORTLAND, OR           Driving all over the Portland area today (as work generally takes me),

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San Francisco Acid Trip

JEFF NEUMAN Los Angeles   Credit: William Rafti (article originally posted at Neuman’s blog, Rants and More) “Man, Republicans fuckin’ hate this

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Cardboard Villages

DONALD O’DONOVAN Los Angeles Credit: Pineapple XV (originally published in The Contributor, Nashville’s homeless street paper) Los Angeles is a long

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Cockeyed Cynicism of Mawkish Old Women

My dear friend and fellow writer Dan Rudy, gave me a delicious description of his recent experience at the opera:

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The Sneaking Militarisation of Police

MICHAEL J BLAIR Blairgowrie, Scotland Credit: Dave Morris For many years I have watched many public riots take place. Not only here

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Glitz & Glam: the US vs the UK

  MICHAEL J BLAIR Perthshire, Scotland  The Super Bowl. Now that is the way to put on a show. No expense was spared as the show began. We sat back, waiting with

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