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"People I Met Hitchhiking on USA Highways": Eric Chaet’s Mission

Book Review by DONALD O’DONOVAN (find Chaet’s book here)   People I Met Hitchhiking on USA Highways is not a novel, and Eric Chaet is not a writer. Eric Chaet

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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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In Wildness Is the Salvation of the World

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Aldo Leopold Thinking Like A Mountain: I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a

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Frederick Douglass’ Shot of LSD

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKELos Angeles To continue repeating the idea that reading is power, and education is strength, and knowledge is might, here is Frederick Douglass attesting to the powers of

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Educating the Shit Out of Yourself: A Formula for Self-Empowerment

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Let us reach back a little ways through history and savor the words of Malcolm

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Disturbing Figures About California’s Wealth Gap

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Credit: David Shankbone In an LA Times Op-Ed, Alissa Anderson and Jean Ross make us cringe:

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The Double Motivation of Fasting

Credit: audie Aldous Huxley gives us insight: A person under the influence of mescalin or lysergic acid will stop seeing

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The World’s Greatest Acid Manufacturer

Tom Wolfe, the royalist, makes memorable: He and Kesey are just standing there trading eyeballs until finally Owsley produces a little

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Do You Complain?

William F Buckley Jr complains: I think the observable reluctance of the majority of Americans to assert themselves in minor

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Can the Government Cancel Our Debts?

One blogger makes a case for it: Jubilee means the forgiveness of debt, but can the principle of Jubilee debt forgiveness be applied to our current economic situation? Yes, it

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