Since I spend the vast majority of my writing time on Salon engaging other comment writers, it makes sense for me to do that.

Most of my posts in the Letters Forum take the form of essays. They're typically extensive enough to make a coh… Read full post »

This is something I've been meaning to talk about for some time, over on Glenn Greenwald's blog at Salon.

 Instead, I've decided to broach the topic over here on my own blog, here. 

 I see it as an authentic dilemma, for the USA.

Because on the one hand, it's… Read full post »

This compilation of data on the history of the Latin American cocaine trade is from a Blogger/Blogspot blog that I've had laying dormant for some time now, and have recently expanded and revived. 

For now,  I'm simply posting numbers, from literally every source I can find.

 Yo… Read full post »

EDIT: I keep getting sugeestions for other singers in the comments. By all means, continue to add suggestions! My only requests are 1) that your choices not be found on either the Rolling Stone Top 100, the NPR 50 great voices,  or on my own published list of 20; and 2)… Read full post »