Hillary Clinton made a book-tour stop (her only one in California) at U.C. Davis last week when she addressed a packed house in the Jackson Hall of the Mondavi Center.  She may have chosen that particular site because her husband had been so warmly received there when he spoke from the same stage several […]

              Hugh Hefner’s death late last month was not nearly as noteworthy as the impact he had on society during the 91 years that preceded it.  That he had faded in importance from the icon he had been in no way diminishes the ways in which he blazed trails that others then expanded in the […]

              October used to be baseball’s month.  Now it gets modest second banana billing to the NFL and college football, which, between the two, dominate weekend TV for most couch-potato types.  But after a fairly remarkable season for the former national pastime (and because some of us still consider it America’s sport), it isn’t entirely […]

              Once upon a time, in the country many of us call our own, the government incarcerated American citizens in concentration camps solely because of the country of their ancestors’ birth.  The United States was then at war with Japan, having been attacked (Pearl Harbor) by that country in December of 1941.               In 1942, American citizens […]