• Picks for ‘26

    Shear madness

    With so much disturbing news circling the proverbial drain lately – the ill-timed destruction of the electric vehicle industry as gas prices skyrocket due to an illegal war just when our household may need a new vehicle; federal ICE agents deployed to U.S. airports, likely including the one in which we’ll be waiting for several hours next month; and devastating reports that farmworkers’ legend Cesar Chavez sexually abused underage girls and young women (including civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, now 96, who carried the painful truth for 60 years about what her mentor and boss did to her) – it all makes my shaggy-haired head want to explode. Particularly that…