RONALDIN-d’oh! Wayne Rooney! You have to pay attention for futbol – L.A., where are we watching? Bonus: did you know this was directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu? He’s a neighbor. In the sense that we live in the same city. He was a neighbor when he lived in Mexico City too, when it comes down to it.
read more...My brother Mike, who so rarely makes a cameo, was on the evening news – Fox – in the Bay Area. Apparently he read up on dam removals before he attended the public meeting in Palo Alto about the Searsville Dam, and its possible removal. The dam holds back water that trickles into the San Francisquito Creek behind the house we grew up in. As a journalist, it’s fun for me to think about why he might have been chosen.
read more...From Daniel Berrigan: The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers. And Thomas Merton: It is true, political problems are not solved by love and mercy. But the world of politics is not the only world, and unless political decisions rest on a foundation of something better and higher than politics, they can never do any real good for men. When a country has to
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