by Splabman | Apr 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Start with two rescued Greyhound dogs, add two vegans (a mother and daughter) and move them to a large apartment building in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood (Columbia City) and what do you get? Community, of course. Meet Alison Tibbals and Melissa Tibbals-Gribbin....
by Splabman | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
I think it was the second fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali where, at Dever School on the Northwest Side of Chicago, one of my black schoolmates, bussed in from a black neighborhood, asked me who I was favoring in the fight. My answer was Ali. My friend Sam...
by Splabman | Apr 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
God is dead but Satan abhors a vacuum. And religion/spirituality in North America has been replaced with neoliberalism. I find this out during the current U.S. Presidential campaign when I engage (mostly on Facebook) friends who support the candidacy of Hillary Rodham...
by Splabman | Mar 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Washington State Democratic Caucus was refreshingly short today, going less than 90 minutes. We gathered at Aki Kurose Middle School, which did have its advantages. I submitted a Resolution for a Single Payer Health Care system in the U.S. and our precinct went...
by Splabman | Feb 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
An East Coast Jewish Democratic Socialist is running for President of the U.S. and it would make sense that there is a connection with Allen Ginsberg, who died in 1997 and who I interviewed in 1994. A poem AG wrote for Bernie Sanders has been found, too late to appear...