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A.K. Reader: “This Piece Began . . .” (1972)

In 1972-73 I was hired as a “professor” in the then fledgling year-old New College of California, located at that time, in Sausalito. (It moved to San Francisco the following year, and finally closed, after a tumultuous 37 years, in 2008.)  Its founder, charismatic Jesuit John Leary, was later outed as a pedophile. When googling […]

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Not One, but Three Big Distractions from the Possibly Climactic Political Drama

As if Furious Florence, now degraded to a Cat 1 storm, but even so, still threatening to unleash the poisons from east coast nuclear facilities and/or hog swamps, if that horrific prospect weren’t enough to knock off the collective radar — out of sight, out of mind, “NOTHING TO SEE HERE” — the possible political, […]

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