Archive for March, 2011

|

The Nuclear Threat

Just before the Cold War thawed, it got very cold indeed. An article appeared in the paper about what parts of southern California were likely targets for a nuclear attack. The accompanying map showed an intersection less than five miles from our house.  After that, I could not stop thinking about my sons dying in a nuclear attack and finally, to deal with my obsession, I became involved with a group planning to protest the production of Cruise Missiles in a General Dynamics plant.  This was also not far from our home.


Read the rest of this entry »

Filed under Family & Friends, Life Matters | Tags: , ,


Matt Damon

I plan to read The New Yorker for the rest of my life. I like the cartoons, the book reviews and the profiles and the humor and the poetry, blah-blah-blah, and I’ve always had a lot of faith in the magazine’s movie reviews, always until last week when it totally failed me and I almost skipped “The Adjustment Bureau.”


Read the rest of this entry »

Filed under Movies | Tags: