Look. We are not actually people who believe that going to Stanford or the Ivys or whatever the hell other schools rich people go to is a necessary predicate to being a lawyer. There are great law students — and great law profs and great law resources — at all types of schools. But maybe…
Snapshots From The Other California
It’s midnight, and I’m sitting on a porch swing in East Bakersfield. I can see the highway from here. It’s mostly trucks. Some nights I can see smoke billowing out of the stacks from the carrot plant, but not tonight. Across the way, there’s a man with a cigarette in his left hand and a…
My Humble Plan To Run For Governor of California in 2018
Brothers and sisters, there’s trouble out here in the west. California is in the midst of a calamitous drought, one of the worst on record. There’s no water out here. There’s no snow in the mountains and no rain in our forecast. To travel through the Central Valley, which keeps our cities fed, is to…
I Drove One Thousand Miles To See Harry Dean Stanton Sing For Twenty Minutes
My theory is that you’re not all the way American until you’ve driven a thousand miles for no reason in a vehicle you’re not supposed to be driving. In 1959, my grandpa bought a motorcycle in Detroit and drove it to California because he felt like it. A few decades later my uncle drove a…