With war-torn Syria joining the Paris Accord, the United States is now the last planet on Earth to deny our global climate calamity and...

The same year that I started trashing Reaganomics* for its racism, carelessness, negligence, and greed in in my sinisterly named high...

We'll never rest. My affiliations and heroes are not guiltless or altogether clean, but none has ever been allied with or on the same...

On a recent post, I noted that Trudeau has a knack for putting words in Trump's mouth (there's a book, in fact). Every imagined scenario...

Before teeing off recently, Trump reportedly told members of his Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey: “That White House...

Invented in England, baseball slipped away with the colonies. It's ours. It rises above. We needn't dwell on oligarchies today. Trump...

Author's note: As a moderate extremist, this is not fun. Shucks, many of my favorite creations (all now on the chopping block): National...

"Todd Pound you are a complete moron. I see lots of folks like you who are so brainwashed you can't even think! You are the poster boy...

“The new president displays an alarming disinterest in evidence,” remarks Bruce Fuller, Professor, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of...

Hi. These artists released albums last year: Charlie Parker, Otis Redding, Mekons, The Rolling Stones. David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Leonard...

In my newest story, a couple of prominent characters employ art and design to communicate scientific data pertaining to looming...

I'm glad the Little Drummer Boy’s drumming made little baby Jesus smile. Art > Material Goods (even kingly gifts!). That carol is Guthrie...

Even bad years have days when a friend bakes a plethora of mini-pies on mason jar lids in the middle of July.

My family arrived here illegally in 1634 (my ancestors likely waited for the cheaper second or third boat. Regardless of their actual...

I'm in! I am running for President of the United States. The ultimate outsider. My qualifications: I have a Political Science background...

I am a practitioner of a ridiculously old-fashioned pursuit: inking a comic-strip. My kids insist I'm simply tracing... and they're...

Sometime in the 1980s, I strolled into the Rainbow sandal factory in San Clemente, California to pick up a new pair of simple leather...

Shortly after my deep infatuation with Art Deco (a prerequisite obsession for anyone with eyes), I curiously disappeared into dogmatic...

A couple days ago, SF Chronicle architecture critic John King addressed Facadism, the technique of preserving an old facade while...

I stumbled into this photo from a few years back, but it feels like it might've occurred just a couple hours ago. Time... utterly...