Vancouver Two books I read on the planes, boats, and trains of this road trip went back to the author’s roots and my own in the West with powerfully evocative writing and hardscrabble truths painfully won. Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains by Josh Garrett-Davis caught my eye when he wrote an op-ed …
Category: ACORN
Just the Facts and Watching our Backs on Wikipedia
Vancouver There is little argument anymore that Wikipedia, the on-line, crowd built “encyclopedia,” is the first source in the 21st century for innumerable high school and college term papers and much of the information random people get about most of the rest of us. I can’t count the number of gnarly introductions I’ve gotten in different …
Hating on ACORN as Election Countdown Nears in USA
Victoria We are hardly more than a week until the USA Presidential election and predictably the conservative rightwing is pulling out the big guns and narrowing their sights for the kill, but surprisingly many are still aimed at ACORN, now almost two years gone. Sure, it’s not as bad as it was four years ago. One …