The Compass Rose

I just discovered that an old friend of many years passed away in January. The Berkeleyside obituary is here .  I first met Goodwin in ab...

A new recipe, fresh from the stainless counter . . . .  1 3/4 parts Jack Daniels Bourbon 3/4 part sweet vermouth 1/3 part Becherovka ...

Yesterday evening I received a link from William Easton to an article in the online science site Nautilus . The article consists primarily ...

Back in April 2014, I wrote a blog piece about abstraction in art, prompted by my finding what seemed to be a stray painter's plywood c...

Back in 2013, I wrote about the Boy Scouts of America's decision to allow Gay boys to enter its ranks.  As I said then , I was never ...

The prospects for the San Francisco Giants in the coming year (2020) appear dismal. General Manager Farhan Zaidi, hired prior to the...

The complete text of the "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature" speech from the movie Network [1976]. Was there eve...