John Ross was a man who lived as he chose and wrote it as he damned well pleased. A reporter with a cause in the time-honored leftwing American tradition of John Reed and I.F. Stone, Ross chose to live most of his life in Mexico in a kind of exile from his native United States.
Posts published in “Essays”
The preseason has come to an end for the AV Boys teams. Based on those preseason games that we've seen it looks to be a…
When the zombie apocalypse arrives — and you may rest assured that it will, do not delude yourself on that score — I'm going to…
Poet Robert Bly, now 89 years old, is a radical, by which I mean he returns to the roots. Haydn Reiss has captured him in…
It’s little wonder that Thanksgiving and Christmas are the number one and two movie-going days of the year. The reason for this burst of cinematic…
Down at the beach, waiting for Santa Claus. Well, not quite; I was at the beach because I love the beach and even more important,…
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Myra Eberhardt is a self-avowed cat person—the kind of cat person who finds dogs and most of their people wanting in grace and civility. A…
Roosters crow almost 24/7, building from the pre-dawn hours into a crescendo at sunrise. We got too many cocks, not enough hens. One gallo is…