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Howard Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States," died Wednesday at the age of 87. Adapted from the Harper Col...

Date: Jan 30, 2010 11:18 AM Marfa, Texas While we were visiting in Fort Stockton Beatlick Joe and I were really impressed by Marfa’s public ...

The alarm goes off and a procession of skulls materialize ahead of the engine. Handing out tickets to the destruction, they're followed ...

If the ruling party fails to heed the warning sounded by the senatorial special election in Massachusetts then the midterm elections will be...

A JAZZMAN CHRONICLE: DISSEMINATE FREELY. By Jack Random “The court’s primary function will be to strike back government regulation of priva...

Date: Jan 16, 2010 3:11 PM Fort Stockton: The Beatlicks are in a small holding pattern in Fort Stockton before we can set up our winter camp...

Date: Jan 12, 2010 10:21 AM We hit the road for Fort Stockton and our good friend Neil Astor's house last week. We will be moving onto h...

.... the same building, different days, like a photograph compressed in the retna waiting to be born a montage in a dream where all else di...

.... a body stretched over a broken window not through but over, the frame of the window and the pane is on the ground, the blood of the vi...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY. By Jack Random It is a great shame that in America we cannot criticize our nation without being pai...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY. By Jack Random “As Commander-in-Chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest ...

A Dialogue with Jake Berry by Chris Mansel (2008). [Editor's Note: This exchange features two of the most creative contemporary minds I’...

[In response to a Jazzman Chronicle reprinted below.] Well said. Delivered with the intelligence, scope and precision of the finest politica...

... american history sweeps a street that won't get clean I'm carrying a gun carved from snakes and beans the past tells me the batt...

Olbermann is eloquent as always. And he utilizes a tool that most journalists either do not have or fear to use – a vocabulary. Maybe the wo...

Date: Oct 15, 2009 5:59 AM Beatlick Travel Report #12 It has taken a full year to really become comfortable with our new van. I felt so conn...