It was an ordinary 12-gauge shotgun shell, a 2-and-a-half inch formerly loaded with No. 2 steel goose shot, one of a box, all of which had been damaged the same way. The ends had been cut off, the load and propellant removed. Curious. It was from the estate sale at the Peterson house. I didn’t […]
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Halloween justice
I stood outside the Wake County Courthouse. A cow walked up, reached into its udder produced and lit a cigarette. It was Halloween. The night before, I’d had an impassioned conversation with a woman with connections to the sad case of Armando Ortez and decided to attend his sentencing phase. Ortez had already been convicted […]
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Peterson on Trial
Paul Harrison. Kristen Lyon Jones. Richard Seaman Sarratt. Charlene Gill. Shirley Ferrell. Tonia Roberts. Kelli Golgan. Ann Pennington. Keith Hall–Jurors who appeared at a news conference the week after the trial ended. Here we are. The end. The resolution wrought not by experts, nor by lawyers, but by the work and sacrifice of 16 ordinary […]
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Peterson on Trial
We were all at the ’80s-fascist Marriott in Farmington, Conn., set in the edge of United Technologies’ sprawling, heavily-wooded hub/campus–all squeaky glass, brick and clean Americans. There were little kids leaping from bed to bed. I had a beer in my hand when my brother told me, he the teller of tall tales. I didn’t […]
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Breaking the noise barrier
Summer. Time for soft breezes blowin’ through open windows, music in the night, lawn parties by the grill. Ain’t but June, and all I got to do is write. I’m under strict editor’s orders to take a break from the larger world, so don’t look for me whuppin’ up on the manipulatin’ Fascist swine in […]
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People and corporations are not equal
“The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does.” United States Supreme Chief […]
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Walk this way
“The solution to sprawl and congestion is good public transportation,” is a standard cliche of transit planning–a version of “if you build it, they will come.” Too bad it doesn’t work. Study after study, city after city, have proven that nothing tried so far can pry Americans out of their automobiles. Despite a ritualistic rearranging […]
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Final jeopardy
The facts don’t matter. I’ve beaten the truth around enough and when there is the level of blind support of the administration’s false and boogered-up facts as is going around, well, let’s just say I’m a bit winded. Those bad boy scouts in D.C. are busy lighting fires faster than I can put them out. […]
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America’s dirty bombs and dirty little secret
Finally, some good news concerning the Bush posse’s reckless rush toward war. Saturday’s mass, global actions were an unparalleled success, motivating the largest demonstrations in history. And in the aftermath, a sea change; the press finally acknowledged that sheer numbers are weighing in against Bush’s right-wing fundamentalist/Zionist zealot Armageddon wet dream. Locally, The News & […]
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The other war the U.S. is brewing
With what-all about Gulf War 2, Code Orange, exploding rubber factories and lost space ships, Colombia has taken a back seat to Columbia and the rest. But at the Community Church in Chapel Hill last week, Gail Phares and her Witness for Peace delegation (www.witnessforpeace.org) gave a presentation pointing out why Colombia is likely headed […]
