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KAMALA, HILLARY, AND SOME FRIENDS WITH DISABILITIES
By Don C. Reed “Free advice costs nothing-- and it’s worth the price!”— Alan Kin I am of course overjoyed with the Harris/Walz presidential campaign. Vice President Kamala Harris is a smiling warrior. “When we fight, we win,” she says, and so we banish doubt....
WILL YOU “DEDICATE” YOUR VOTE?
By Don C. Reed In a few short days I and millions of Americans will vote for Kamala Harris as President of the United States. I want to mark that historic vote in memory: three ways. First, after my vote is safely completed and turned in, I will take one of the...
BIDEN, HARRIS, AND THE THEATER THAT FOUGHT
By Don C. Reed One of the world’s most beautiful movie houses is the Grand Lake Theater* in Oakland, California. To enter its plush elegance is to step back into the glory days of movies: velvet curtains, magnificent pipe organs, Technicolor, Sensurround—and...
“UNCLE JOE” : OR, THE HEROISM OF SELF-SACRIFICE
By Don C. Reed Dear Mr President: For millions of Americans, you will always be: “Uncle Joe”. You have earned that title; for half a century of active duty, you were always there for us Shakespeare asked whether it is nobler to “endure the slings and arrows of...
ONE DAY OF PEACE
By Don C. Reed Yesterday, July 13th, 2024, while participating in the Democratic process, former President Donald J. Trump was shot in the ear: injured in what can only be described as an assassination attempt. The Secret Service performed admirably, and Trump himself...
VOTING FOR THE DEMOCRAT?
By Don C. Reed I am proud to be a Democrat, and have been, ever since I was old enough to vote. I trust our party, largely from its stances on the issues. For instance, Democrats work to reduce the pollution of Earth’s air and water supply; also to make sure...
HONORING CIRM ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
By Don C. Reed The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is the embodiment of a great dream: that cures may come. Built from a citizens’ initiative, Proposition 71, CIRM expresses the will of California: that regenerative medicine should fight chronic...
SMALL DOLLAR DONOR — Or, Attacked by Army Ants?
By Don C. Reed “THE NAKED JUNGLE”, starring Charlton Heston, is a staggeringly stupid, racist movie. Example: one scene shows a fat native, sleeping under a tree. First of all, how many fat natives have you seen? People living in the wild are generally lean, in tune...
WRESTLING A WHALE, AND OTHER POLITICS
by Don C. Reed From 1972–86, I worked as a professional scuba diver at an aquarium-zoo (Marine World Africa USA) in Redwood City, California. Most of the work was peaceful, scrubbing the tanks, feeding the fish. But there was also a more strenuous side. Patches and...
Don Reed's NEW BOOK - "Science, Politics, Stem Cells and Genes: California's War on Chronic Disease"
California’s War on Chronic Disease
By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023