The Armed Citizen

The Armed Citizen In the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, one should not be too quick to condemn gun ownership, as it’s not always a bad thing. Our country needs to deal with mental illness, overall criminal behavior and society’s tendency to foster violence as a form of conflict resolution, not disarm. It’s too bad there were so few […]

Good Karma

Reviewer Magazine, available at Karma Coffee Shop, 1544 N. Cahuenga Blvd, in glamorous Hollywood-land, California. Photo by Jim Steinfeldt:

music reviews – John Ralston

Music Reviews by Kent Manthie John Ralston: “Needle Bed” (Vagrant Records) In an interview with the Miami Herald recently, John Ralston told reporter “I write everyday…it’s the only thing I do that really is something just for me.” On Ralston’s new CD “Needle Bed” it shows. A few months back, Ralston was playing in South Florida’s Legends of Rodeo when […]

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007, R.I.P.

Kurt Vonnegut, dead at 84. The world has lost a great satirist and far-seeing humanitarian. ~RR