Category Archives: philippic

Taking Care of the Poor, San Francisco Style, 2021

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Galen Workman

There is something humanly disturbing and wrong about how we have decided to NOT handle poor homeless people in need. Here’s what I saw on Castro Street last week. Continue reading →

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Repeating Today’s Big Lie,
or Defending Sessions’ and Trump’s Policy Separating Families

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Galen

This week’s uproar on separating children from their asylum-seeking parents unpleasantly confirms how far apart on basic morality we are in this country. To me, my Trump-approving friends ignore the imperative of the urgent human needs of the asylum seekers … Continue reading →

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Rock Hudson Died of Alzheimer’s

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Galen

In a wildly incorrect statement, Hillary Clinton yesterday praised Nancy Reagan and her husband, President Ronald Reagan, for helping America de-stigmatize AIDS and its victims.  In an MSNBC interview, Clinton expressed appreciation to the Reagans: “It may be hard for … Continue reading →

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What Is the Motive of the Roseburg Shooter?

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Galen

Seriously? A motive? The media demand to know why this murderer shot his arsenal in the classroom. They badger the police and interview professional television interviewees about what set off the shooting. Every mass shooting plays out with similar, pointless questions. … Continue reading →

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How to Increase the Power of Special Interests

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Galen

This Facebook sets me off.  It’s pathetically simplistic.   And supremely stupid. How has the panacea of term limits worked for, say…, California? The state legislature is at least as partisan and divided as Congress. Special interest-written bills pass routinely, … Continue reading →

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