The Grand Old Party talks a lot about smaller government and personal liberty. Pardon me for thinking that they are full of it. People are u...

"Does this hurt?" Bruce, our podiatrist, asked me in his somewhat clinical tone as he pushed his thumbs into my heel. I muffled a ...

Richard I leaving England for the Crusades, 1189 - Glynn Warren Philpot Off to battle once again, San Francisco - communications will be ...

a lovely song written by Harlan Howard & Ron Peterson

I read a very interesting article in The Nation. How the GOP is resegregating the South by Ari Berman. It is rather long but you might fin...

Franz Bischoff Our pals invited us on a great outing and midday distraction the other day. We first drove up to the Irvine Museum to see ...

For the third year in a row, the red tailed hawks are back in the nest, perched in the high sycamore that provides protection and gives them...

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, which promotes breast cancer awareness, has pulled the plug on Planned Parenthood. They had been...

Governor Jerry Brown is starting to dissolve the State's redevelopment agencies. I say bravo! Redevelopment was a  little used contrivan...

Paria © Robert Sommers I don't know why I opened up the way I did about my childhood. It has brought up a few interesting comments a...

© Robert Sommers It is sometimes said that people that oft trigger our most unpleasant reactions are those who most resemble ourselves....

It didn't take long today for me to figure out that this show was turning into my own personal version of the Bataan death march. I have...

In a perfect world, we would all be living in Santa Barbara. Fabulous weather, gorgeous palms, the azure waters of the pacific resting off...

The Little Walter harp show at the Belly Up was very cool. I am having problems with my right foot, plantar fasciitis I think and the pain...

I couldn't let this one go by without posting it. Newt Gingrich is so darn hot that maybe there's just not  enough of him to go aro...

I think that the Republican nomination is shaking down perfectly for Newt Gingrich. The way the cosmos is aligning with the primary trip to ...

Very wonderful to see Doc, arguably the world's greatest flatpicker, playing an alternating bass line thumb pick style. He named son M...

Tommy's RG Board I know that I am an incessant name dropper but I need to share this anyway. One of the great joys of my life wa...

Manny G sends this one over: Perfect day for Odetta. My parents would blast this on weekends. Along with Harry Belafonte. Our friends ...

© Lena Leichtling My friends Ron and Lena are on an extended trip throughout asia and posted this picture of a Bagan family in Myanmar. ...

NPR has a very interesting tech podcast today with John Villasenor of the Brookings Institute. The piece is titled "Technological In...

"We just love the paintings in your booth. We come to visit it every show. It's like a museum. Don't let anyone buy them....

Interesting anarcho/artist site that sells funny stuff. Wear them to your next occupy gathering.

I have 17 minutes to write something intelligible. Then I take off to do an antique show at the Del Mar Fair. I have very low expectations t...

Fallbrook is having a moody, drizzly holiday. It looks like a cross between a Norman Rockwell and a Guy Wiggins painting today. The flowerin...

This is a low resolution shot of the MLK Memorial that I took in the fall after the grand opening. I don't have a vote but personally...