On the 20th anniversary of our country’s invasion of Iraq, I’m reading lots of pundits cudgeling their brains about why the hell we committed this insane war crime. …

When did the name “Karen” become a meme for an entitled, racist White woman? It’s not clear, but this “Oh, she’s a Karen” business was always about hating women, specifically White women, and telling them to keep quiet. Calling women “Karens” is a way to blame racism on White women…

Many people are speaking out about NOT watching the video of Tyre Nichols being beaten by the Memphis police. In an Op-Ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle titled “ Why you absolutely should not watch the Tyre Nichols Police killing video,” journalist Julie Scelfo writes: “The artist Questlove, responding…

My mother came into her beauty again in her nineties. We had a big party at a restaurant for her ninetieth birthday. When Mom lifted her glass for a toast, she looked up at the sky, waved her arm and said to my father in Heaven, “I made it, Babe!” …

This is what I felt about the rainy season on the day it began, New Year’s Eve 2022: December 31, 2022: I sit in my studio tonight, comforted by the continual soft thrum of the rain. Rain rain rain rain rain. Then a little sun. Some wind. Then rain rain…

I watched all the hearings of the January 6 Committee live. I was spellbound the whole time. Now the hearings are over, and I want to look back, savor this amazing phenomenon, and the courageous people who testified… People like: Officer CAROLYN EDWARDS of the Capitol Police, who was knocked…

Somehow, it seems appropriate, on the eve of Thanksgiving, to write about a wonderful Indigenous singer and activist whose music was actually censored by the U.S. government — an artist who is, at 81, finally up where she belongs. Have you ever heard Buffy Sainte-Marie sing in concert, live? The…

So, Gordon Mar is a good liberal supervisor who represents the Sunset, the southwest area of San Francisco. It’s all single family homes and is the most politically conservative area of the city. Mar took a stand against all the recalls for the D.A. and School Board that we just…

… Or, as the League of Pissed-Off Voters says, “Let’s Fix Some Shit!” Now the day we’ve all been waiting for, dreading & hoping, is almost upon us — Election Day. This is the time the rubber hits the road. People will be phone-banking. People will be distributing literature. People…