When I first started writing for the Calistogan, the former editor Mike Lynch and I were trying to come up with a name for the column. I had suggested using my motto, "Eschew obfuscation." His ...
Eschew obfuscation. It was everywhere in the 1960s: desktop paperweights, wall plaques and nearly every college dorm-room poster in some form or fashion. If it’s an unknown phrase today, then the word ...