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The Freak And The Law From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (1 day old)

Last week, Giants’ ace Tim Lincecum, a kid with one Cy Young Award already and likely to grab a few more, got popped for speeding in Washington State, before seven in the morning and with the distinct… more

Why Does Bud Selig Hate Baseball? From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (3 days old)

So the World Series is over. Four months until the boys of spring, summer, and fall converge on Florida and Arizona to prepare themselves for the 2010 season. That’s a lot of days to trade stories a… more

Got Your Assessment Right Here From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (21 days old)

Assess this you dumb fuckers. Yes, I have an attitude problem today. Good time for you to close the page and move on to other, more acceptable sites. There are clowns on bicycles on YouTube. O… more

The Continuing Education Of Rush Limbaugh From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (22 days old)

I haven’t seen a pro football game in maybe twenty years, so out of touch that I was surprised to learn recently that there are teams I’d never heard of, lots of them. And although I don’t plan on wa… more

How Can We Miss You... From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (25 days old)

Ah, Willie Brown. In the words of the great country standard, how can we miss you if you won’t go away? I suppose it’s kind of petty of me to complain. I live in one of the great magic places o… more

Welcome Home, Roman Polanski From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (30 days old)

Welcome home, Roman Polanski. We’re glad to have you back. We know it’s been a tough thirty years or so, what with the travel restrictions and this thing hanging over you here in California, U.S… more

Holding Up My Pants From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (31 days old)

So I was standing there on the court floor of the Marin County Hall of Justice, holding up my pants with one hand while trying to slip my belt back through the loops, and thinking about the state of t… more

Reunion From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (33 days old)

Notes from a reunion... To veterans of the San Rafael High School experience, circa 1964-5, a few notes of interest or disinterest, depending, on the class of ‘64 reunion held Friday and Saturday, … more

Sharks In The Water From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (40 days old)

“When there’s blood in the streets, buy property.” So says Jodie Foster to Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s heist thriller “Inside Man.” Now that there’s blood in the streets of America –– metap… more

...Like The Children Of The Family... From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (51 days old)

The war on drugs, like the war on terror, is a systemic invention necessary for the accumulation of wealth and power. It’s therefore phony. And whatever you’ve come to believe about it is probably c… more

Dear Barack From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (58 days old)

Dear Barack: I feel as though I can call you Barack since we’ve been associated on a great, successful political campaign, and together we found our way through cynicism, doubt, racism, and apathy… more

This Cannot End Well From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (59 days old)

Look. We’re on the side of warlords, drug dealers, and crazies in Afghanistan. Explain to me again how it’s not like Viet Nam in 1964. We’re running airstrikes against civilians pretty much every d… more

Living With The Animals From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (62 days old)

The college football season has begun. I know this because a player for Oregon has been thrown off his team for cold-cocking a player from, I think, Boise State following the latter’s narrow victory … more

Mistakes Have Been Made From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (65 days old)

Like you, probably, I’ve got this enormous email address book. Not like you, probably, I have developed the habit of passing on to those I regard as like-minded others various bits and pieces of inte… more

Your Call Is Very Important To Us... From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (71 days old)

Your call is very important to us. Please hang yourself with this line and we’ll cut your body down as soon as weather permits. You know, there’s an aspect of the national idiocy surrounding ‘he… more

If You Can't Laugh... From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (73 days old)

It was a fellow named Hugh Romney who said, “if you can’t laugh, it’s just not funny.” Or something like that. Mr. Romney, who is known as Hugh to maybe a dozen friends and as Wavy Gravy to mayb… more

A Small Case Of The Big Lie From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (78 days old)

It’s a small case, at least in the great scheme of things, but it’s a great example of the Big Lie. I’ve been thinking about it because it’s ‘Back-To-School’ time, with lots of sales of the exciting … more

The Wrong Man From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (84 days old)

On March 27th of this year, the Corte Madera branch of Bank of America, in Marin County, California, was robbed by a man who handed a stick-up note to a teller and made off with $22,000.00 in cash. … more

"If you vote for Goldwater..." From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (92 days old)

The problem with torture, it turns out, is not torture per se but the uncomfortable possibility that somebody will find out about it. That appears to be the position of the Obama presidency, you know… more

Wyoming Lamb, Marshall McLuhan, and the Giant Twitter From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (92 days old)

There was a bumper sticker years ago which read: “Eat Wyoming lamb. 20,000 coyotes can’t be wrong.” Or something like that. I thought of it when I noticed that the pageviews of this blog had exc… more

Horsing Around From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (99 days old)

Last year, a fellow named Rodell Vereen was placed on probation in Columbia, South Carolina, for the crime of buggery, which has nothing whatever to do with either a non-human life form or a horse-dra… more

Deep Politics and Honduras From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (101 days old)

I’ve been trying to write something for a couple of weeks now and finding little success at it. This is annoying for several reasons, one of which is that in the absence of new titles my blog is now … more

A Brief Lesson In Statistics, Or, If It's Really Boring Maybe Nobody Will Notice From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (121 days old)

Straight-faced story in the Chronicle, out here in San Francisco: the California Superintendent of Education, a hack named O’Connell who harbors additional political ambitions, and don’t they all, ann… more

Obama's War From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (122 days old)

The early returns have an eerie familiarity. U.S. troops pushing a major offensive into “enemy” strongholds in the countryside, Pentagon flacks with charts and pointers, the mass media uncritically t… more

Amnesia From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (136 days old)

Companion stories today on Truthout and Alternet, different authors, the same question: was the Iranian election rigged? Then came the response of the Obama administration: we don’t buy Ahmadinejad’s… more

Wide Open From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (159 days old)

Went to a meeting tonight, got in the car and motored out somewhere. My excuse for this break from my reclusive existence, and if you can say that sentence fragment three times without blowing it you… more

Nobody's Going To Jail From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (168 days old)

In the sixties, it was Brown and Root, the Houston-based contractor whose founders were buddies of Landslide Lyndon Johnson. Brown and Root got a lot of government deals, exclusive and non-bid, inclu… more

Of Spies And The Darkest Of Secrets From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (171 days old)

In post-WWII Eastern Europe, enemies or people of serious inconvenience to the Soviet state often committed ‘suicide’ by leaping out of windows or from rooftops. Now, in the New World Order, it is Am… more

A Curious Thing To Say From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (193 days old)

As of this morning, we’ve got cases of swine flu reported in six states. In related news, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa) announced that he would run for re-election as a Democrat. Specter is a fav… more

Tree-Huggers Running Wild From RAZFX in News From A Parallel World (201 days old)

Tree-huggers running wild, that’s what it is. Hey, don’t get me wrong, I love ‘em, every blinking one of ‘em, and a few I really admire, such as Julia Butterfly and Frank Egger, but it’s like anythin… more