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Stateside with Rosalea: Unlucky for most?
Wednesday, 4 June 2003, 7:55 am | Rosalea Barker
On June 6, Proposition 13 celebrates its 25th anniversary here in California. Associated Press correspondent Jim Wasserman, in a story picked up in the San Francisco Examiner yesterday, said it was dubbed "a political earthquake" when it passed and ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: 2004 Presidential Election
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 8:44 am | Rosalea Barker
The single worst thing about the US presidential elections is the presidency itself. To understand what that institution has aspired to over the past 100 years, you only have to look at this weekend's photo ops of the Bushes in St Petersburg - the poster ... More >>
Stateside: Forget 2004, Here's Someone For 2008
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 8:50 am | Rosalea Barker
I guess I spoke too soon when I said a couple of weeks ago that the folks hoping to be the Democratic candidate for President in 2004 were ignoring California. Heck, even one Republican hopeful - GW Bush - will be in San Francisco soon for a fundraiser, ... More >>
Weepy n Creepy Film and TV
Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 9:27 am | Rosalea Barker
As the King of Siam might say in song: "It's a puzzlement." Why is so much film and television product originating in the US so childish, as if created by using one of two cookie cutters, Weepy or Creepy? For the past couple of weeks I've turned ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Tariq Ali, 8 May 2003
Wednesday, 14 May 2003, 10:13 am | Rosalea Barker
"We meet at a grim time." Such were the opening words of Tariq Ali's talk on 'War, Empire and Resistance' given in the heart of the military industrial complex at UC Berkeley last week. (As someone in the audience pointed out, the flag on stage ... More >>
2004 Presidential Campaign
Monday, 12 May 2003, 8:45 am | Rosalea Barker
During the last presidential election campaign I lamented that the reality of US politics is that the likelihood of a plumber from Des Moines, Iowa, becoming president is extremely low. Obviously, that state of affairs puts the lie to one of the great ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: I've been seeing you!
Wednesday, 7 May 2003, 8:14 am | Rosalea Barker
May is Asia Pacific American month, which is why I found myself watching a documentary about Pacific skin art on Sunday night. There's no equivalent to the Listener here in the US, so I found the programme while out surfing in the commercial breaks during ... More >>
Stateside: Lifeless dummies on a closed course
Monday, 5 May 2003, 10:34 am | Rosalea Barker
2004 Presidential Election - I surrender. You just looked too, too good, Mr Prez, in your flying suit. Where do I get a job as the presidential strap-tightener? And when's the AWOL George action figure coming out, so I can put it with my GI Joe? More >>
Stateside: It's just not cricket
Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 8:14 am | Rosalea Barker
Contrary to last week's bleat, sometimes I *am* where the story is, as happened a couple of weekends ago when I went to my first ever baseball game. More >>
With a cuneiform in my uniform
Wednesday, 23 April 2003, 8:31 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside With Rosalea: With a cuneiform in my uniform, and a twinkle in my eye? I stopped writing my daily war diary last week, not because the war is over (we're at September 1939), but because it's somewhat meaningless for someone who isn't where ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Rotate the State
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 8:30 am | Rosalea Barker
I thought I'd go back to just one column a week, as otherwise I'd be doing a war diary all the rest of my life. But, just in passing, today is the last day to submit taxes here in the US, so here is a link to the petition the National War Tax Resistance ... More >>
OK, so who's got the ace of peace?
Monday, 14 April 2003, 7:58 am | Rosalea Barker
Many aspects of Operation Iraqi Fiefdom have shocked me. Its very existence is as if my host's dog, Lassie - which I've been trying to understand and like and thought I was friends with, even after discovering it was a pitbull - has turned around and ... More >>
Turning to very ugly custard indeed
Friday, 11 April 2003, 10:19 am | Rosalea Barker
Looks like the Commander-in-Chief's speechwriters got it right for once in the April 8 press release announcing National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day: "... these proud patriots continue to inspire us today as we work with our allies to extend ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Custard, anyone?
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 8:53 am | Rosalea Barker
For those who haven't seen it on-line, here is the last paragraph of Michael Kelly's column in the Atlantic Monthly, which I referred to yesterday. It's in today's "For the record" section of theatlantic.com... More >>
Tie a digital ribbon round the old oak tree
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 9:10 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside With Rosalea - On my commute to class last night, and elderly man taking a seat next to me brightly remarked that "it will all be over in a couple of days. No more protests. The paper says it will all be over." To which I replied: "It won't ... More >>
That and that were then and then; this is now
Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 8:24 am | Rosalea Barker
When I arrived in the Bay Area in December 1999, my unaccompanied luggage didn't so I had to take a bus trip to the San Francisco airport to try and track it down. This weekend I happened to take the same bus trip and was struck by a couple of differences ... More >>
Cherry tree, Washington
Monday, 7 April 2003, 8:33 am | Rosalea Barker
One of my daily rituals is to look at DIP on sfgate.com - the San Francisco Chronicle's on-line site. Day In Pictures is a little slide show, chosen by the Chron's photo-editors, of the pix from around the world and the nation that are on the news wires. Three ... More >>
A little something to read over the weekend
Sunday, 6 April 2003, 10:46 pm | Rosalea Barker
There was a huge thunderclap overhead last night. It woke me up, truly startled, then truly grateful that it was the work of Mother Nature and not something exploding. More >>
Studio One Another
Friday, 4 April 2003, 9:46 am | Rosalea Barker
If you want to skip my little musings for the day, and read or watch what a panel of UC Berkeley professors, from different disciplines and viewpoints, had to say at a forum on Iraq last night, venture to the links inside... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The siege of Baghdad
Thursday, 3 April 2003, 8:33 am | Rosalea Barker
It's Wednesday morning here and the radio reports of Operation Iraqi Fiefdom say that the Iraqi troops guarding Baghdad have been decimated. I wonder if that's the case or if they've just moved inside the city for the house to house battles to come. ... More >>
