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If I were keeping score in the epic battle of good versus evil on this planet, I would calculate the events of last week thus: Light- one; Darkness- zero. Everybody senses that there is more at stake in the Murdoch affair than the management of newspapers and a “naughty” media-gone-wild. Everybody is right. It’s our humanity that’s at

The right wing edifice is cracking, and you’ll tell your grandchildren you watched it happen.
It’s not just the debt crisis, or the fall of the House of Murdoch; fissures great and small are appearing within conservative ranks caught between what it’s promised and what it can deliver, and between what it’s seemed, and what it is.
History, in a word, is overtaking the right at a time the Democratic opposition seems united and in possession of the political and moral high ground; it’s Pickett’s Charge all over again.
The purists that drove the right wing tide think they’re within reach of their goal of shrinking the government, and are urging each other forward regardless of

In 1950 a beer cost about the same (about 25 cents in U.S. dollars at the time) in Pounds Sterling, French Francs, German Marks, Japanese Yen and many other local currencies that hinged on those bigger countries. But for Americans traveling abroad at that time, the local cost converted back into US Dollars was about 10 cents. Wow! The good old days!
Since then a lot has changed in the world of

Publicists say it all the time: “This album will melt your face off.” “This album rocks so hard it will blow your mind with awesome.” Sometimes these statements are true; sometimes they are a little less than accurate. My guess is, when Ty Segalls’ publicists were selling his 2010 breakout album Melted, they told the world, “This record sounds like trying to cage a rabid hyena in a glass box, but it breaks out anyway, gargles the glass for fun, and then howls at the top of its lungs like it was shot in the leg.” Powerful image — sure, but is it the truth? — absolutely.
His latest effort, Goodbye Bread (out now on Drag City), features the rocker in a much more fuzzed out mood — favoring a sonic slow burn instead of the assault of Melted. But just because the musical impact is less aggressive does not mean it is any less

“We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger. And we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man

We at Patch want to welcome our new HuffPost San Francisco colleagues to the Bay Area. Patch, HuffPost Media Group’s local news operation with over 800 sites across the country, has 65 sites in the Bay Area. They stretch from South San Francisco to Campbell to Benicia and Napa and Elk Grove. Our full time local editors are all professional journalists covering towns around San Francisco, the Peninsula, Silicon Valley, the East Bay and

Happy Monday everyone, here’s my Top 5 for July 18, 2011 from Len Berman at www.ThatsSports.com.
1. Quick Hits
The U.S women fall to the Japanese in the Women’s World Cup final.
42-year old Darren Clarke from Northern Ireland wins his first Major, the British Open, at five under par. Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson finished tied for second, three shots back.
It nearly went to penalty kicks. The Red Sox beat Tampa Bay last night 1-0 in 16 innings.
Former NHL center Joe Sakic hit a million-dollar hole in one (half goes to charity) at the Celebrity Golf

There is never a dull moment in Pakistan. You’ll always find big news of one sort or another. If it’s not extremists killing hundreds of people in broad daylight in a crowded marketplace, then it’s a suicide bomber blowing himself up in a mosque or a shrine. If it’s not supporters of extremists rallying in the streets of Lahore or Islamabad, then it’s some kind of anti-America

With over 29,000 jobs lost in California in May 2011 and well over 1 million jobs lost in the state since 2007, the repercussion of the economic decline has touched many if not most households in CA. Even with the increase in hiring over the last 6 months, there are still plenty of people without a job. San Francisco and Oakland have the 2nd highest level of job loss in the nation. According to a recent Manpower survey, 13% of employers that were interviewed in the San Francisco Bay Area plan to lay off employees in the 3rd

No self-judgment, no self-criticism and no self-dislike allowed today. None of it! You are who you are and who you are is perfect, just as it is.
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Empires are some of the most visible forms of organized power, through which we can see very clearly how and why power emerges, expands and eventually disintegrates. Such power tends to emerge as people fail to take charge of their own affairs after the collapse of a previous empire, leaving a vacuum to be filled. But this power is always unequal, and produces resistance. To maintain itself this resistance, like all threats to power, must be

America has a growth deficit. As the latest job report shows unemployment reached 9.2% — the highest rate of 2011 — investors and employers continue to react negatively to this bad news.
During the three years of the Obama administration, in this dismal economy millions of Americans have been forced to take jobs which they are overqualified for or they have simply given up looking for work entirely. If you include those workers, the real unemployment rate is higher than 16.2% by conservative

I wish I had a dollar for every time someone called Al Gore an alarmist.
The dictionary definition of an alarmist is “someone who is considered to be exaggerating a danger and so causing needless worry or panic,” “a person who habitually spreads alarming rumors, exaggerated reports of danger, etc.” Not to be confused, of course, with someone who sounds the alarm about a genuine threat. Someone who shouts “Fire!” in a movie theater is a villain if there’s no fire, but a hero if there is.
In the case of climate change, 97% of climate experts — the scientists who publish in peer-reviewed journals — agree that the climate is changing as a result of human activity. Given the dramatic scale of current and anticipated impacts, this is akin to a fire smoldering in the projection room.
But what about those who shout “fire!” in relation to measures aimed at eliminating energy waste and our dependency on fossil fuels? This is the other side of the alarmist coin.
This kind of alarmism has led to a spate of death threats against climate scientists, most recently in Australia where a heated public debate over a proposed carbon tax is currently raging. I’m not referring to the run-of-the-mill creepy, anonymous emails that many of us receive from time to time, but to blatant and open

Taking a step back, we must consider the peculiarity of producing a Feininger retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Despite his upbringing in New York, a technicality that allows the museum to claim him as their own, the artistic vision presented by curators Barbara Haskell and Sasha Nicholas effectively identifies the dilemmas of a German artist during the tumultuous period from 1907 through 1919. As an active participant in Die Brcke as well as Die Blaue Reiter and a professor at the Bauhaus, Feininger played a vital role in cultural history of the 20th century as a socio-cultural aggregator.
Lyonel Feininger, “The Kin-der-Kids,” from The Chicago Sunday Tribune, April 29, 1906, Commercial lithograph, 23 3/8 x 17 13/16

With the independence of the new Republic of South Sudan, the world is
again reminded that states are created on the basis of local, regional
and international necessity. At least two decades of international
action, as well as a long, bitter and bloody conflict produced the
independence of the south, a state that has been already welcomed by
the international community, the African Union, the United Nations,
and has been invited to join the Arab League.
South Sudan is only the latest newly-created state in the
international community. In recent decades numerous new countries have
come into existence, arising out of the former Soviet Union, the
former Yugoslavia, the split between the Czech Republic and Slovakia,
the secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia, and so forth. Yet more than 60
years after its existence was envisaged by the UN partition plan for
Palestine, more than 40 years after its creation was implied in the UN
Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and almost 20 years since
the Oslo Accords led the whole world to expect that Palestine would,
soon, enjoy independence, there is still no Palestinian state.
It’s hard to overestimate the strategic, political and cultural damage
this failure to secure Palestinian independence is having on the
Middle East as a region, and, indeed, throughout the

A bottle of ketchup is such a ubiquitous refrigerator staple that it might never occur to you to make your own. But homemade ketchup is easy to make, impressive to serve and more or less guarantees at least one “wow” from your guests. Even if you’re eating alone, you’ll be proud to know that you made an effort, and it paid off.
Try your hand at these 10 easy do-it-yourself essentials, and enjoy the looks on your friends’ faces when you show up to the party with delicious, homemade beef jerky that hasn’t been hanging in a gas station mini-mart for six

Check out this Bloggingheads TV debate on Iran policy that I just did with Josh Block. Josh is the former AIPAC Spokesman and I’m the former J Street Political and Government Affairs Director.
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This is a big week for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Today, the President will announce his intent to nominate Richard Cordray to serve as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. On Thursday, the CFPB makes its transition from a start-up to a real, live agency with the authority to write rules and to supervise the activities of America’s largest banks.
Rich will be a strong leader for this

Just last month on June 25, I had the opportunity to lead a public group meditation at Union Square in San Francisco. Over 250 people were present, and for 10 minutes we sat in silence with our eyes closed amidst the chaos and flow of tourists, shoppers, cable cars and traffic.
For the people who couldn’t be physically present at the group meditation in San Francisco, we had also invited people from all over the world to meditate at the same time as we were at 12:45 p.m. on Pacific Coast Time. On our online event page, we had people from Egypt, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and many other places from a diverse list of geographical locations RSVPing to show their commitment to meditate for ten minutes at the exact same time.
Coincidentally, all of us were meditating in San Francisco during the same weekend as the annual SF pride parade, and a mere day after the state of New York ruled in favor of gay

Heroes, as you know, fight evil and stuff. What you may not know is they don’t always get to wear capes. Or have distinguishing features like a lightning-bolt scar on their foreheads. More often, heroes go around unnoticed, unsung, with dirt-stained

By Libby Lewis, iWatch News When Iranian political activist Rasoul Mazrae sought shelter from his own government, he fled, headed for Norway via Syria. He was followed by a petition from Iranian officials that Interpol, the international police agency, list him as a fugitive. Despite the United Nations recognizing him as a political refugee, the same Syrian government that today is cracking down on its own dissidents used that Interpol alert to deport Mazrae to Iran in 2006. Mazrae was jailed for two

At a recent suicide prevention symposium hosted by the NYS Office of Mental Health (Disclosure: I am the agency’s Medical Director), Dr. Lee Goldman, Dean of Columbia Medical School, began the day by remarking that there has been an 80 percent (!) reduction in deaths from heart disease in the past 50 years. Dr. Goldman was highlighting how what seemed like inevitable mortality rates two generations ago could be systematically and dramatically altered by reducing risk and intervening early and effectively; lives can be saved and pain and suffering for potential family survivors can be blessedly mitigated.
That was a heartening opening in light of why this meeting was called: 10 years ago a national strategy to reduce suicides in this country was launched built on a platform created by Former Surgeon General David

I was a teenager when I was first introduced to the concept of meditation. At the time, as a typical teenager, I really didn’t get it, didn’t practice it much. Sports, school and friends took up most of my time and thoughts. But about 10 years ago I took meditation up in earnest, I am now a daily practitioner of transcendental

No self-judgment, no self-criticism and no self-dislike allowed today. None of it! You are who you are and who you are is perfect, just as it is.
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