Half-Moon Bay Let me share an experience out of the ordinary for me at least and that was being on a panel among the literary lions at the annual Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. The panel was titled “American Problems, Southern Solutions” after the recently published Tony Dunbar edited volume to which several …
Author: wade
More Green for the Green
San Francisco Ray Ring, a senior editor writing in a recent number of High Country News, pulled together some interesting numbers in a piece that argued essentially that environmental groups have prospered and in many cases filled their coffers thanks to the recognition that the draconian policies of the Bush II Administration had …
Stop Loss
New Orleans Somehow in talking to returning Iraq veterans from time to time, I had completely missed an understanding what a “stop-loss” was. Watching Kimberly Peirce movie by that name drove the point home powerfully. A “stop-loss” refers to language in a soldier’s contract that allows the Army to prevent the soldier from mustering …