Welcome to the website of Michelle Locke, a writer, photographer and editor based in the San Francisco Bay area. A news reporter for many years. I now write about trends in food, drink and travel. Want to keep in touch? Find me on Twitter.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015. We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! Corinthian closing its last schools; 10,000 California students displaced. Monday, February 2, 2015. Obama Insists That Terrorists Are Not Motivated by True Islam. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Hendrix was accused of .

Thursday, August 13, 2015. A very belated follow-up on Andrea Abbott. My previous post had me searching my own archives to recall what bad publicity occurred before the TSA changed their policies for children. I stumbled across the story of the brave truth-teller, Andrea Abbott. In 2012, she was in fact convicted of disorderly conduct and sentenced to probation.

Am a former inner-city teacher and public defender. My expertise is in defending recreational drug use, sex work, and other consensual adult activities that the American government deems criminal. When media sensationalism and political fear-mongering are confronted with facts, it is apparent that the unintended consequences of these prohibitions have caused much greater suffering than the activities themselves.