Here's a link to my latest op-ed, this in the Los Angeles Times of 5 June 2011. I have preserved the original title. In the editing -- possibly a telling comment in itself? -- "love" was dropped. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson-aids-20110605,0,4195576.story ...
The Destiny of Us Fenton Johnson / April 2011 Oyez, oyez! Rise and hail! Bush wren, emu, crake and rail, Moa, parakeet, and chat, Puffleg, chiffchaff, after that An aged passenger is sat. With the dodo, twelve’s complete, Ivory bill may take his seat In jurisprudent black. In the docket, insolent, Man and...
The following ran as an opinion essay in the Los Angeles Times of 16 March 2011: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson-earthquake-20110316,0,2960695.story...
12 January 2011 -- Tucson, Arizona The mainstream consensus is that Jared Loughner was deranged, and the Tucson tragedy, however regrettable, is just another of those things that happen in a crowded, complicated, difficult world. What comes to mind: the Cuyahoga River of Ohio, at one...