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Getting Away with ARSON 
October 31, 2025 0 27  
Halloween History 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 17, 2025 0  
For many years, the Malibu Feed Bin heralded the arrival of Halloween with a display of pumpkins for sale. This year, the corner of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway hosts only a utilitarian assortment of trailers used...
Spanish Style: Hidden History in Plain Sight 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 3, 2025 1  
It’s everywhere: historic hilltop mansions from the 1920s and 30s with red-tile roofs and wrought iron fixtures and entire housing tracts from the eighties and nineties that echo those elements in mass production. Real Estate offers are replete with...
Migrating Insects 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 19, 2025 0  
Fly, white butterflies, out to sea, Frail pale wings for the winds to try, Small white wings that we scarce can see Fly. Some fly light as a laugh of glee, Some fly soft as a low long sigh:...
Maikura, A Village by the Sea 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 5, 2025 0  
It was called “Maikura,” and it was home to as many as 500 people. It had a marketplace, shops, an inn, restaurants, a church, and even a Japanese garden with a bridge and a pool and a miniature forest...
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Uncle Joe 

Jimmy P. Morgan, December 31, 2020 1 5 min read  
Dear Uncle Joe, Given the general attitude towards government in the twenty-first century, it occurs to me that the expectations surrounding your recent promotion are rather low. With that said, you have been pursuing this job for quite some...
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Making Sausage 

Jimmy P. Morgan, November 20, 2020 0 6 min read  
In The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (2020), “hands-on investigative journalist” Benjamin Lorr peels back that thin layer of self-delusion that separates almost all of us from the troubling truths of modern society....
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Long Division 

Jimmy P. Morgan, November 6, 2020 0 5 min read  
A podcast series titled To See Each Other focuses on the activities of politically progressive organizations throughout the country that were absolutely floored by the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Sponsored by an umbrella group known as People’s...