Here’s Sanders in Your Eyes

Here’s Sanders in Your Eyes Posted: 15 Oct 2015 07:40 AM PDT By Bob Dorn  Time for another look at politics 2015. No, no, no, don't go back to Ultimate Fighting, or The Kardashians, or wondering whatever became of Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake or that kid on Via Amnesia named Justin whose pants keep falling below his crack. Forget the distractions for a moment and try to focus on wtf is going on. Let's look at the S-words, and the J-word. One S-word is Sanders, short for Bernie Sanders. Another S-word is Socialist, that's the elephant in the room.   [Read more...] shared from San Diego Free Press A Dark and Dirty Shadow Falls Over California Plastic Bag Ban Posted: 15 Oct 2015 10:56 AM PDT By Doug Porter Efforts to eliminate the use of plastic grocery bags in California face all-out opposition via two well-funded industry campaigns in 2016. Hilex Poly, Superbag Corp, Advance Polybag and Formosa Plastics Corporation are expected to cough up most of the probable $55.3 million price tag for the efforts. An estimated $38.1 million war chest will back a November referendum aimed at SB270, State Senator Alex Padilla’s bill banning the use of plastic bags. The measure was suspended following a $3.2 million signature-gathering campaign funded by the American Progressive Bag Alliance. And just to make sure they get their way, industry proponents are spending an estimated $4 million qualifying a second ballot measure innocuously titled the Environmental Fee Protection Act. It’s likely they’ll spend $17.2 million selling this bit of misdirection, according to Forward Observer.com.   [Read more...]

Race to the Bottom Posted: 15 Oct 2015 07:50 AM PDT By Jeeni Criscenzo Driving back to San Diego from a conference in Fresno down 99 through the San Joaquin Valley, you’d have to be sleep-driving not to see it – the Death Valley of California. Miles after miles, acres after acres, east and west, abandoned farmland as far as the mountain edged horizon, not so long from being lush that you couldn’t identify what once was, or dread what isn’t yet – that rugged desert that comes next, after the tiniest bit of rain.   [Read more...]

Here’s Sanders in Your Eyes Posted: 15 Oct 2015 07:40 AM PDT By Bob Dorn Time for another look at politics 2015. No, no, no, don't go back to Ultimate Fighting, or The Kardashians, or wondering whatever became of Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake or that kid on Via Amnesia named Justin whose pants keep falling below his crack. Forget the distractions for a moment and try to focus on wtf is going on. Let's look at the S-words, and the J-word. One S-word is Sanders, short for Bernie Sanders. Another S-word is Socialist, that's the elephant in the room.   [Read more...]

‘Sunshine/Noir II’ is for Bibliophiles Posted: 15 Oct 2015 07:26 AM PDT San Diego City Works Press' distinctive approach to book as object By Anna Daniels While mass market publishing continues to flourish and self-publishing has increased, small independent presses have declined over the past decades. Those of us who can't imagine a trip to San Francisco without a visit to the City Lights bookstore are an indication of the limited but passionate support that still remains for independent publishing. Small presses release limited runs of titles and address a specific niche and readership which mass marketing publishers largely ignore. They seek out emerging talent, provide a platform for out of the mainstream views and take risks that go far beyond the financial-- City Light's publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl in 1955 resulted in an obscenity trial. Another small press hallmark is the attention to how the book as an object feels and looks. That means high quality paper and unique cover art and illustrations. San Diego City Works Press' release of Sunshine/ Noir II is a reminder of what small independent publishers can do better and differently than the big guys.   [Read more...]

Buena Vista Social Club in the (White) House! Posted: 15 Oct 2015 07:24 AM PDT By Staff Here's something to celebrate--the Cuban musicians who compromise the Buena Vista Social Club will be performing at the White House on October 15. They have been touring the United States for almost twenty years. They got their start in 1997 when Ry Cooder searched out a number of aging and forgotten singers and musicians from Cuba's rich musical past, brought them together and cut the album Buena Vista Social Club. Wim Wenders documented the process and outcome in his popular film of the same name. It's worth remembering that while the group was well received here, there was bitter and loud push back from the most anti-Castro segments of the Cuban exile community in Miami.  [Read more...]

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