Played Out
By Terry Canaan July 3, 2008 Good news for marriage equality in California. At least one national Democrat isn’t joining in on the irrational panic over same sex marriage there.…
Proponents Urge Court to Leave Marriage Initiative
On November Ballot
By Julia Cheever July 1, 2008 Five proponents of a ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage have asked the California Supreme Court to reject a bid to knock the…
Death Penalty System “Close to Collapse”
By Julia Cheever June 30, 2008 A commission created by the California Senate four years ago released a report today saying the state’s death penalty system is broken and “close…
Brady Center Releases Statement
on Second Amendment Ruling
From the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence June 27, 2008 Washington, D.C. – Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the…
Joe O’Donoghue: “Laconic Officials In Catatonic Mien,
Sleep Unperturbed, Indifferent”
By Joe O’Donoghue June 25, 2008 The late Jean-Michel Folon, a Belgian artist, illustrated brilliantly, in bright color form, the desolate voids of 20th century cities and their inhabitants. This…
Well-known Same-Sex Couple
First to Wed in San Francisco, Again
Officiated by Mayor Gavin Newsom, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon became the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco yesterday following the state Supreme Court’s decision last month to…
Peak Oil and the End of Sweet Suburbia
June 8, 2008 “We’re literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up.” – James Howard Kunstler Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels…