Municipalism - exhibit 1

Wrote a quick LTE this morning - I am such a Municipalism fan right now - ------ In a small ray of hope during this contentious time, our city government seems to be genuinely responsive to the neighborhoods.  A group of Rio Vista neighbors asked for the city's

America's grand strategy

wrote this in response to a NYT op-ed calling for a grand strategy in American foreign policy: Our grand strategy should be driven by our core principles: liberty and justice for all - not only for those who happen to live in America.  If we can achieve that, the world

small spaces

i have become am becoming adept at exploring small spaces in small moments when time is short to climb a new mountain trail turn longing sharply right and down into nearby wash surprising a rabbit in its run desert broom pushing up through a rotten log I've never

a dedicated review

ok, I had way too much fun writing this review...I picked up this book while walking around Barnes and Noble last night and well, you can read...F*ck your Book

Oh, Facebook

Enough is enough.  And also, this is why Civ.Works.  Wrote that up in more detail for LA Progressive - https://www.laprogressive.com/facebook-okays-political-lies/

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Wrote this, on Rojava, trying to organize actionable things in a collaborative way: RFC3:  Rojava, Syria and Turkey 2019

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I will post this.  Although it may ramble, be warned - this morning I have given myself permission to simply write, a sort of private-public diary, to try to tease one noodle out of the bowl, or to follow one twisted path of thoughts up to the root. Reading Virginia

Sense and Cents

The power of making sense... The positive side of capitalism is a free flowing distribution of efforts and resources Downside is that it is subject to both parasites and cancers The real thing is the flow of information, effort and fixed resources.  And this flow is more interesting if one

"money isn't everything"

indeed - its only an anonymized representation of value.  But some types of value inherently cannot be anonymized.  Some of those come under the category of 'love makes the world go round'

and a book review - The Night Listener

I may not be judging this book fairly as a work of fiction - I wanted to read it because I had originally read the Rock and a Hard Place, the book published by "Pete", when I was about twelve, and had really gotten into it. I'