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       presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

ALL HALLOWS' EVE

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by Lillian B. Kennedy The night the dead come home to roost like this picture from Abu Ghraib. Who wears the dunce cap now? Who dances the ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

CONSIDER THE PEPPER

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by Laurie Kuntz On a Friday afternoon in southern Jerusalem , 17 year-old Rachel Levy was entering a Supersol market to buy a pepper for t...
Monday, October 29, 2007

THE DEMOC RAT RACE

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poeArtry by Charles Frederickson Amazing trail blazing democRAT RACE     VIPer sniper venomous campaign-in’ asps         Wriggly debate shed...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

HOW DO YOU PLEAD?

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by John E. Simonds A generation only cares so much for those who’ve passed and shuffled to the door. Courtly courtesies and step asides give...
Saturday, October 27, 2007

PRIMARY CAMPAIGN, 2007

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by Nancy Kenney Connolly They say they’ll pray on it, these mamas, pray that God will tell them what to do, the world is changing, this is a...
Friday, October 26, 2007

AFTERMATH

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by Wayne Crawford There has never been a Department of Creativity, a Secretary of the Arts, a Narrative Surgeon General. Never an empire de...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

CALIFLAGRATION

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by David Feela In the hills the homes grow on trees. Real estate is a dominant species with conifers and oak crowded out so that swimming po...

DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION

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by Liane Ellison Norman The column on the porch- riddled by carpenter ants and the leak that poured into wood from the plugged- up gutter-le...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

THE SURGE

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by Barbara Daniels To the young, everything’s history, even this morning, ripe-peach sun at the horizon pounding an empty ballfield with hea...
Monday, October 22, 2007

PHYSICIAN OFFERS FREE VASECTOMY FOR BRONCOS TICKETS

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by Rochelle Ratner 1. Ride 'em, Cowboy! That's what kept going through her mind on the long drive from New York to Col...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

THE BIG LOOPHOLE

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OR, MATTHEW 19:24 REVISED by George Good George Washington was first in peace and war and in his countrymen's hearts came before J...
Saturday, October 20, 2007

ANN COULTER'S PRIVATE MOMENTS

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by Stephanie Woolley-Larrea The curtains drawn the television off she fixes a mug of herbal tea sinks into the overstuffed couch-- cat paws ...
Friday, October 19, 2007

IGNAZ SEMMELWEIS

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by Helen Tzagoloff The valuable lesson of handwashing before and between examining each patient is today honored mostly in the breach. --Ne...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

BIPOLAR MELTDOWN

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poeArtry by Charles Frederickson Crisis of confidence glacial breakaway     Noxious whitehouse gases no limits         Massive icebergs hidd...
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