Archive
Archive for March, 2009
Twitter Nation
March 24th, 2009
My Alternet essay on Twitter has been reprinted as a cover story in the Sacramento News & Review and the Santa Cruz Good Times. You can click here to see me discuss the article and roundhouse kick three Twitter defenders on French TV. If for some reason you want to read two huffy-puffy critical responses to the article, you can click here and here.
Change Comes to the Pentagon
March 21st, 2009
I have a new piece up at Alternet that looks at the likelihood of defense contracting reform under the Obama administration. A lot of people are cautiously optimistic, but as one of my sources says: “Efforts to fix this flawed, complex system go back four decades with very little success. I wouldn’t get too excited.”
Back to the Commune?
March 6th, 2009
I have a short piece up at Alternet today that looks at growing interest in group-living among recently bust baby boomers. From taking in roommates to buying houses with friends to full-on hippie farm villages, alternatives to maintaining big empty suburban homes are looking better than ever to those nearing retirement. These homes were never all that good an idea in the first place, but now they are just not tenable for millions who have lost most of their wealth in the last year.
Civil Rights Award
March 1st, 2009
Last week I was awarded the Marty Biegel Civil Rights Award by the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients, for a series of articles on drug policy published in High Times and at Alternet.org. It was an honor that I was very happy to see become somewhat obsolete a few days later, when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would no longer allow federal agents to raid state-approved medical marijuana facilities, a long-standing practice that was a focus of the stories.
