observations from the edge
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(Editor’s note: Bob was a force to be reckoned with. Whether they agreed with him or not, people read “Observations from the Edge.” In the many years he wrote for The Coast News Group, no person o...
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Like most Americans, I gathered with others to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama. As a strong supporter of his candidacy, and a big fan of his highly educated sense of language an...
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Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher and the founder of the Deep Ecology movement, died last week at the age of 96. I mention this because the world needs more deep ecologists not less. Here in So...
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I first referenced George W. Bush in a column titled L is for Leadership in June 2000, when I wrote “George W. Bush isn’t leading, he is a mouthpiece for his father and his cronies.” Could I have b...
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I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, as they have taken on the same mythic quality as Santa and the Easter Bunny. This is not to say I haven’t made resolutions in the past. I have, and have broke...
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I figured for my last “Observations” column of 2008, I would begin with thanking the Kwanzaa elves for giving Muntandar al-Zaidi the courage to throw his shoes at George W. Bush while the internati...
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Dear Santa, It’s time again for my yearly ritual of writing a letter to cultural constructs and market-driven myths, asking for the impossible. I would have written sooner but I went on an unchara...
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How would Jesus celebrate Christmas? When I asked this question last week, I did so with the knowledge that Jesus predates Christmas historically by a few hundred years and that Judaism didn’t, and...
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Regular readers of this column know I am not a Hallmark holiday sort of guy. Not really “anti-Christmas,” it’s more accurate to describe me as pro environment. Christmas has never occurred to me as...
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