Cultivating Outrage

Visa for Victor, finally! We sent the last required documents, and then waited. Starting a few days ago, I've been checking th...

When I saw Mike Godwin's op-ed in the Los Angeles Times , I recognized his name from CPSR and RISKS . And reading the piece reminde...

And then there's my collection of gay porn star autographs! These were gathered at two events, the Consumer Electronics Show  (CES)...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I bought (and sold) lots of counterculture buttons and posters. I still have quite a few. Naturally, on...

While I'm on the subject of magazine collections , I must write about comic books. From childhood into my teens, I read lots of comic...

Long before I worked at JPL, I was a space enthusiast. In 1968-69, I saved many books and magazines about NASA going to the moon. The mag...

I enter sweepstakes all the time. I win small prizes now and then. In recent years, I've won a digital camera and a couple of $100 g...

Deji Bryce Olukotun has written novels, short stories and essays. He has one story in this collection.  He read a great short excerpt fr...

Nick Duretta is a personal friend, and a member of the book discussion group I'm in. He has a short story in this book . At  the Los ...

Inside the cave Of our many  travels around  Yucatán , one of the  more unusual   was to see the cave at Loltun .  We went with our Cal...