OB Rag

Edited by Marjorie Cohn Just published by NYU Press Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several…

by Lace Watkins / Special to the OB Rag / January 18, 2011 In more than 40 years since MLK’s…

It’s a slow news day.

Here is something other blogs do: present an “open thread” – an opportunity for readers to express what’s on their minds without having to cling to the subject of the post. For here, there’s no post … just your thoughts.

Go to it! Say your piece! Be a blogger for a day! C’mon, the water’s fine.

I’ll remember the scene for as long as I live, as it was so gratifying to look upon all those…

Every now and then, we’ll do a review of what’s been going down on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach, what’s…

There are moments which transcend the need for words. Marcos Efron’s short video “Common Practice” reveals one of those moments.

Here are two examples of graffiti sprayed or written on local Ocean Beach walls. One has a political message, and…

Editor: Shirley Robinson Sprinkles, a lifelong friend of Ernie McCray, wrote to us sharing her thoughts on the events that…

The massive death toll of dead birds and sea life should draw attention to the countless other species on the…

By A.W. Maris / Special to the OB Rag

“Too long a sacrifice

Can make a stone of the heart

O when may it suffice?” – W.B. Yeats

You don’t see the signs. Especially in these times of gaiety lost amongst an otherwise grey and somber season.

I see before me photographs of a sprinkling of my wife’s ashes soaking in the sand along the shore in…

By Melissa McEwan / Shakesville / January 10, 2011 Both sides are, in fact, not “just as bad,” when it…