Angela Bacca

Tonight at the Ace Bar in San Francisco (14th and Mission), I held a long and disorganized discussion about religion, politics, and other taboo topics of conversation with a Guinness-drinker who would only allow himself to be identified as “The Suppository of Knowledge”.
We began to discuss the tired topic of the Bush Administration.
I began by [...]

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Rapper Jay-Z’s new video, “Blue Magic,” features scenes of New York City, clubs, cars and stacks of euros. That’s right, euros—not dollars.
The dollar continues to drop and the euro continues to rise. So what exactly is Europe doing right and what is America doing wrong?
Among other things, the European Union (EU) has taken the forefront [...]

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“This culture is so afraid of pleasure, of hedonism,” said Claire Burch, an 82-year-old filmmaker and author from Berkeley. She has been working to promote the legalization of marijuana for medical and recreational use through her documentary work.
Burch, along with other marijuana advocates and users, promotes marijuana as a natural and healthy alternative to costly [...]

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As the water supply dries up in Georgia, the snow falls early in the Rockies, and California gets burned up in a succession of wildfires the Bush Administration continues to pretend that the clear and present danger of climate change is unfounded and nonexistent. Meanwhile, I am still trying to figure out what was so [...]

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