Sunday, July 22, 2018

DOLICHOVESPULA MACULATA, or THE BALD-FACED HORNET

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by Tricia Knoll We look to the animal kingdom to describe some people we know— shark, worm, fox, hawk, lame duck, skunk, sheep, rat, s...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

A FIRE IN WINTER

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by Mark Tarren Now that it is winter, the snow hides the past once again. The white crested forests of pine, spruce, larch and c...
Friday, July 20, 2018

AMERICA BREAKS

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a modified abecedarian by Susan Vespoli "Javiar" 8 yrs old from Honduras. Detained since Feb. Still in custody in a Texa...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

MAN WALKS 20 MILES TO FIRST DAY OF WORK, CEO GIFTS HIM CAR AS THANKS

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by Liz Ahl  The U.S. has finally completed its transformation into a dystopian game show with an elaborate and contradictory and ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

WHERE IS THE SERVER?

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by Lisa Vihos Image source: @axios                               after the question from Trump to the media at his surrender to ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

TWO NEW NEWS BROADCASTS

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by Alice Twombly                       I The Evening News: July 4, 2018 A stag, with a full rack of antlers, stands sta...

LYRICS FOR TREASON DAY, JULY 16, 2018

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by Michael Brockley “Send in the Clowns” trumpet solo performed by the US Air Force Brass in Blue. What if the king wasn’t caught ...

RUSSIAN FELLOWSHIP

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by David Feela Just as Quakers sit in silence moved to stand when the spirit insists so does the American public occupy its bench ...
Monday, July 16, 2018

REVERSALS

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by Terese Coe In loss is meaning, in emptiness, seed, in ruin, a mirror of wholeness and deed.  A seed reserves need a...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

SONG FOR PATTI

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by John Azrak Patti Smith’s books, particularly Just Kids and M Train , reflect the same humanitarian, progressive, genuine spirit fou...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

TIMEOUT FOR PROGRESSIVES

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by George Salamon T***p May skeletons dance at 2017 BRIT awards. after Mary Hopkin's “Those Were the Days” A poem wi...
Friday, July 13, 2018

TRADING FLESH FOR METAL

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by Austin Davis On Monday, police said [Matthew] Edwards shot and killed his wife and their three children — Jacob, 6; Brinley, 4; an...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

BY THE RIVER

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by Jan Steckel “Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks.” —Psalm 137:9 By the waters of th...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

OPERATION SARAH

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by Matt Witt LONDON — Facebook was hit with the maximum possible fine in Britain for allowing the political consulting firm Cambridge A...