AltWeeklies Wire
Real Scamnew
The sentencing in the Wendy's chili-finger case -- a 12-year and a nine-year sentence for the two conspirators -- is draconian punishment for a crime that did not hurt anybody.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
02-03-2006 |
Commentary
Killer Regeneratrixnew
In the U.S., the liberation of women has been grotesquely reduced to whether or not Roe v. Wade is the "law of the land" -- whatever happened to real feminism?
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
01-27-2006 |
Commentary
What We Might Kill If We Kill 'Tookie'new
Perhaps the best argument against capital punishment is the story of how the judicial system mistreated Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who has spent half of his 51 years on San Quentin's Death Row.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
12-12-2005 |
Commentary
A Restaurant for the 23rd Centurynew
Under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais in California, Lydia's Lovin' Foods turns out a delicious assortment of raw, vegan and vegetarian dishes.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
11-28-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: McDonald's, natural foods
White Power Movement Protests Casino Developmentnew
The leader of a group that opposes the creation of American Indian-run casinos says "tribalism" must be eradicated in the United States as well as Iraq and replaced with "democracy."
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
11-11-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: wetlands, California Stop the Casino 101, Chip Worthington, Elaine Devary Willman. Toppenish, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and their backer, Graton Tribe, Greg Sarris, Laguna de Santa Rosa, One Nation United, professor of Chicano Studies at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ron Lopez, Station Casinos of Las Vegas, Wash. chair of a national organization Citizens for Equal Rights Alliance, whose associate member groups United Property Owners
The McKilling Fieldsnew
Of the estimated 30,000 civilians slain in Iraq, 37 percent have been killed by the U.S. military, according to the Web site IraqBodyCount.org. Do average Iraqis believe that Americans are trying to free them?
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-31-2005 |
Commentary
Signing Away Indian Sovereigntynew
A contract between Station Casinos of Las Vegas, Nev., and an Indian tribe places the tribe in a position of perpetual subordination to the corporation.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-17-2005 |
Commentary
Authoritarian Oppositionnew
Protesters who did not stay "on message" were kicked out of Camp Casey, says a California witch who went to see the settlement where the mother of a slain soldier waited to speak to George W. Bush.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-05-2005 |
Commentary
Extracting Excess Profits From Oilnew
Oil executives can access each other's supply information without "conspiring," enabling them to passively collude in raising the price of gasoline.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-05-2005 |
Commentary
Memo From Karl Rove: I Quit!new
To G.W. Bush: You ain't got the sense God gave a wart hog, boy.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-14-2005 |
Comedy
Meter Beatersnew
Californians could lose if utilities are compelled to hook their homes up to Internet-controlled "smart meters" that will monitor their energy demand in real time.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-30-2005 |
Commentary
The End of Innocencenew
The burning question for parents is how much violence their children must witness to become informed, peace-loving beings.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
07-25-2005 |
Commentary
The Monkey Biz About Darwinnew
Critics of Darwin try to score points with liberals by claiming that he was the first social Darwinist, and his scientific method is therefore wrong.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
07-18-2005 |
Commentary
Columnist for Salenew
If columnist Armstrong Williams can get big bucks for pushing the No Child Left Behind program, why shouldn't this columnist auction off a few stories?
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-21-2005 |
Commentary
Homeschooling Guru Turns Darwin Into Whipping Boynew
John Taylor Gatto says that "liberals" and "secularists," most especially Unitarians, historically conspired with capitalists to impose schooling on the masses and "suppress" the "amazing insights of American Christian spirituality."
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
05-23-2005 |
Commentary
