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I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest Service in San Francisco as a Clerk-Typist, GS-4. I was active in the USFS's union for several years, including a brief stint as editor of The Forest Service Monitor, the nationwide voice of the Forest Service in the National Federation of Federal Employees. Howsoever, I now believe my most important contribution while editor of the F.S.M. was bringing to the attention of F.S. employees the fact that the Black-Footed Ferret was not extinct; one had been found in 1980 on a national forest in the Colorado. In 2001 I retired from the USFS after attaining the age of 60 with 23 years of service. Stanford University was evidently unimpressed with my efforts to make USFS investigative reports of tort claim incidents available to tort claimants (ie, "the public"), alleging the negligence of a F.S. employee acting in the scope of his/her duties caused their damages, under the Freedom of Information Act. Oh well. What'cha gonna do?
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Five Paintings by Merlin Flower
If you like art and read OpEdNews, you maybe caught one or more of the five articles published recently by Merlin Flower, OEN's own "How I Painted This One" artist.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Imperialist Morality, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Interview with Jean Paul Sartre on the War Crimes Tribunal in 1967, which tried American War Criminals for the Vietnam War en abstentia.
(13 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 11, 2010 Freeman Dyson Writes About Religion and Science
This is the third OEN article I've published since last month based on, and containing extensive excerpts from, the writings of the brilliant mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson. Dyson's most popular book was largely biographical and was titled Disturbing the Universe. He's also the author of Infinite in All Directions, Origins of Life, and The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, August 27, 2010 Freeman Dyson, A Brilliant Scientist Who is an Unabashed Optimist About Biotechnology Research - Part II
Freeman Dyson is the British mathematical physicist who famously drove cross-country from New York to California with Richard Feynman in the late 1950's and helped him work out the mathematics to formalize the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, for which Feynman shared the Nobel Prize with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger in 1965. The Nobel Prize for Physics has never been shared by four physicists.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Freeman Dyson, A Brilliant Scientist Who is an Unabashed Optimist About Biotechnology Research - Part I
Freeman Dyson is the British mathematical physicist who famously rode cross-country from New York to California with Richard Feynman in the late 1950's and helped him work out the mathematics to formalize the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, for which Feynman shared the Nobel Prize with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger in 1965. The Nobel Prize for Physics has never been shared by four physicists.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 19, 2010 Bobby Thomson, who hit 'Shot Heard 'Round the World' for '51 New York Giants, dies
Bobby Thomson, the man immortalized with his "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in 1951, died Monday night at his home in Savannah, Georgia. He was 86 and had been in failing health for several years, the Fox & Weeks funeral home said Tuesday.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 18, 2010 The UN, Impunity, and War, by Fidel Castro Ruz
With Resolution 1929 of the United Nations Security Council on June 9, 2010, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, fulfilling orders from above, appointed Alvaro Uribe Vice-President of the commission responsible for investigating the Israeli attack on the humanitarian flotilla transporting essential foodstuffs to the besieged population in the Gaza Strip. The attack occurred in international waters.
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Thirteen More Works by Nancy Spero, a Persistently Disturbing Artist
Nancy Spero has been producing cutting-edge protest art for five decades. Her biography at Artnet's Artist Works Catalogues speaks mainly of technique, but I've arranged her works to contrast the pictorial effects, which illustrates the consistency of her radicalism.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, August 6, 2010 In Memory of August 6, 1945, and of Joseph Rotblat
Today is the 65th anniversary of our bombing of Japan at Hiroshima. As Americans, we should all bow our heads for a moment in shame.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Seven Contemporary Paintings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov show that some of America's best contemporary art has been produced by artists born between 1933 and 1945. Ancient times, you say? Not in the art world.
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 25, 2010 Rock-and-Roll in America, 1956-1960
I went east to college from high-school in Texas in 1959. And I took a three-record Hank Williams collection, which knocked the sox off my fellow freshman in Harvard Yard. But from 1956 through 1959, country and western was very much secondary to my high-school musical enjoyment.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 10, 2010 An Appreciation of the Movie, The Constant Gardener
Go out and rent this movie, still very timely! Not much has changed in Africa since it first came out.
Scenario:
In London, Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) meets and falls in love with outspoken humanitarian Tessa (Rachel Weisz), a beautiful young activist who persuades him to take her back with him to Africa. (Wiki)
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 9, 2010 Netanyahu Would Discuss Settlements in Direct Talks With Abbas
Dateline July 8 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he's willing to negotiate the future of West Bank settlements "right away" if Palestinians agree to meet face- to-face for Middle East peace talks.
SHARE Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Two Disasters, One Story (Part 2)
Stopping the Oil - An Interactive Guide.
This week, we're assessing the impact of the Louisiana oil spill. Correspondents in the US, the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and London will be reporting.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Eight Paintings by the Famous Contemporary Artist George Condo
My intellectual favorite of these remarkable paintings is Grace; my pictorial favorite is Jazz edges; and my thematic favorite is USA Cancer. Six of the works are what I call Contemporary Surrealism.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 6, 2010 US-Cuba Friendship Caravan to Tour 130 Cities
The 21st U.S.-Cuba Friendship Caravan is to tour more than 130 U.S., Canadian and Mexican cities from July 3-22. An initiative of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization/Pastors for Peace (IFCO), the delegation will be calling for an end to the blockade of Cuba throughout a 13-route convoy of school buses and cars.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 28, 2010 More Scary Art by Tom Durham
Tom Durham is a multi-talented artist who lives and works in Rhode Island. His art has appeared in exhibitions and museums in Europe, New York City, Washington, DC, and several eastern seaboard states.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 23, 2010 Seven Endangered Species by Tom Durham
Last Friday, seven of Thomas Durham's political artworks were published at OEN to much acclaim. This article's images are a selection from Durham's endangered species artworks.