Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts
Thursday, May 21, 2026

MYTHOS AT COMMENCEMENT

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by David Anson Lee Eric Schmidt stood at the stage like someone introducing age. He praised A.I.’s unfolding reign. The graduates booed him ...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

WHAT WORDS MEAN

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by Michael T. Young Cartoon By Nick Anderson           For Alex Pretti, Nurse Executed by ICE Agents   They say “domestic terrorist.”  We sa...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

A TIME TO PLANT, A TIME TO MOW

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a DJT “Four Seasons Landscaping” moment by John Stickney AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . “You know, grass has a ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

THE PECULIAR CASE OF COMPASSION

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by Adnan Abbasi A nurse at New York University’s Langone hospital was fired after mentioning what she described as a “genocide” in Gaza duri...
Wednesday, September 06, 2023

EDUCATION EVISCERATION

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by  Felicia Nimue Ackerman "The principal of a Georgia elementary school apologized to parents last week after a guest author who was d...
Monday, January 16, 2023

AMISH HISTORY LESSON

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by James Schwartz What are you studying? My Amish father peers at my homework, History—Martin Luther King Jr. “We are to be separate from th...
Tuesday, December 06, 2022

SOME MEMORIES OF THE QATAR GAMES

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by  Sister Lou Ella Hickman, I.W.B.S. A woman holds up sign reading Woman Life Freedom, prior to the World Cup group B soccer match between ...
Sunday, September 04, 2022

AFTER THE PRESIDENT SPOKE ON DEMOCRACY

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by Indran Amirthanayagam   The day is coming, and nobody is turning away. It is coming like sun rising, like rain about to burst   from clou...
Tuesday, February 02, 2021

ON HEARING JOE BIDEN SPEAK IN 1971

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by Jane Patten What did I care of Fiscal fairness Divided among The three counties of Little Delaware, With its chicken on a banner, Its bat...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

DEAR FLAVIA

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 by Paul Smith   Today I saw a guy on TV about my age a little older, white-haired who put his hand on a Bible and took an oath to uphold de...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

NARRATIVE

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by Colm Ó Ciarnáin Artwork: Indie Gibberish       weponised    nonsensity Obnoxification of society ratification of cagedness r...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

HOPE AND HISTORY RHYME

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by Susannah Greenberg Hope and history stutter and gaffe. Corruption and cruelty point and laugh. Then Joe rolls in like Moses...
Friday, August 21, 2020

OUR DICTATOR

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by Carol Dorf Art by Adrian Teal When the young ask “Why did you let it go on so long?” they have forgotten an essential fact—h...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

ROCK ART

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by Geoffrey Aitken John Boyega  issued an emotional rallying cry in support of Black Lives Matter in London's Hyde Park on June 4....
Monday, March 09, 2020

CLEARITY

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by Mark Williams Cartoon by First Dog on the Moon “Hello. I am Austin Baggerly and I am giving my speech in Mrs. Colley's four...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

C0LDER (S0NNET 0) AND C0LDER, BERKELEY

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by Ron Riekki “Arrests made as hundreds protest Ann Coulter speech”  — Los Angeles Times , November 20, 2019 Walking to the gro...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANQUILITY

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by William Aarnes                          from the 2019 Independence Day speech What’s troubling shouldn’t trouble us.  Whatever...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

HOLD HER DOWN, SHUT HER UP

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by Kathleen A. Lawrence

 She put her cold hand over my mouth, she whispered hotly in my ear a wet warning, “don’t talk about it.” ...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

T***P AT DAVOS

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by Rick Mullin Cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, The New York Times , January 22, 2018 Bloated, he descended with the rest, the social...
Friday, September 01, 2017

T***P ADDRESSES THE SURVIVORS

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by Earl J Wilcox Thank you all for coming. It’s so good to see such a great crowd, especially those of you in pajamas, without fo...