Back in the early 1990′s, I met Craig at the Samaritans — a suicide hotline. He was a trainer and I was a volunteer. Sometimes on Friday nights, a group of us Sams would go bowling at University Lanes in Greenwich Village which is still there but it’s now the very retro-trendy, Bowl- Mor. Back [...]
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The Federal Welfare State of Arizona Can Go F**k Itself
The governor of Arizona just signed the new law that will allow the police to pick up anyone anywhere for suspicion of being Mexican or harboring Mexicans. Could I just remind Arizona that it is a federal welfare state in the middle of a freaking desert? Most of their water comes from the Hoover dam [...]
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