I'm Judith, usual screen handle Comadre, living the precarious existence of an institutionally underemployed schoolteacher and single parent pretty much by choice in and about Berkeley, California. I've been an activist for peace and justice causes since adolescence in the late 60s and early 70s, and my mother is just now accepting that it wasn't just a passing fancy on my part. The many evil tentacles of the War on People Under the Guise of an Attck on Drugs got my attention as to their human rights, environmental, and economic disastrousness, and I went tooling about on this Internet I barely trust looking for ways to get involved while raising a young child on my own a few years back. I got connected with NarcoNews and the guy who publishes same shortly after NN made its debut in 2000 and it's been generally productive and even more reliably fun.

I generally prefer working behind the scenes (the granddaughter and the former lover of a few former fugitives, I have a taste for calling as little attention to my own life as possible except among trusted friends) but the latest e-mail from our founder and publisher prodded me gently, that it was time to come out of hiding. I've been doing some backstage support stuff for NN almost as long as there's been NN, and might as well bring it to the newly-rededicated Narcosphere.

I'm the sloppiest typist you ever saw among otherwise good copyeditors, so forgive any errors; it's just my Web accent, really. I enjoy taking a gleeful monkeywrench to what passes for most news and public commentary as well as most of what passes for politics and legislative proposals.  my main political affiliation is "freelance nonviolent troublemaker."

oh, and my 9 year old shares a lot of my attitude including the sense of irony and intellectual playfulness.  maybe we'll bring her into the Narcosphere too.