Sunday, February 28, 2010

CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE

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by Richard Ilnicki Pablo Neruda once said, “I explain a few things.” Who wouldn't sit at his feet and hang on every word and swallow his...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

HEALTH WARNINGS

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February 25, 2010 by Steve Hellyard Swartz Shovel with your legs and save your spleen Scrolls across the bottom of my tv screen On the left ...
Friday, February 26, 2010

TODAY WE FETISHIZE POCAHONTAS

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by David O’Connell but in two hundred years, they’ll sit for the play with an Iraqi in the attic who sweeps and does dishes then heals the d...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

The CHENI@D:
Volume Ten

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by Bill Costley Click here for Books I-XII. Click here for Books XIII-XXIV. Click here for Books XXV-XXXVI . Click here for Books XXXVI...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

THE WAY PHILANTHROPY WORKS

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by Ed Werstein At concerts in Rockefeller Center sensitive ears can still hear the cries and wails of the Ludlow miners and their wives and ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

RUBBLE DREAM

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by Mary Krane Derr My dream of the third night, over orange sodium-lamped Chicago snow, with brick buildings unjarred by pushes of wind off ...
Monday, February 22, 2010

MID-WINTER NEWS CLIPS: 2010

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by Robert M. Chute Cpl. Candide returns from his fourth Afghan tour to find Pangloss in command. Pundits say, since this is the only w...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

ANGLE

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by Laura Rodley Low into the woods he drives his skidder the seat patched with silver duct tape, black grease upon the wheels. It emit...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

WILDERNESS & NUCLEAR

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by Art Goodtimes Repubs and Dems they both boost nukes One of the reasons I'm a Green Can't get those grubby little fists of the pow...
Friday, February 19, 2010

THE HOMELESS WINTER OLYMPICS

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by David Feela No chance for the gold he settles for the white, a medal of no distinction awarded for not finishing anything. He lugs his b...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

AN OLD MAN SPEAKS

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by Louisa Calio Look at de earth, mon; see how it work; it work by itself without your help. Now watch de moon, mon; watch de sun; see de pa...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

CHECK CLI-MATE

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Poem by Charles Frederickson; Graphic by Saknarin Chinayote Jaded chessmen 64 uprooted squares Opening gambit soiled groundless rules Change...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

PALIN MAGIC

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by Jean Thurston Liebert "Now you see it. Now you don’t."      Magic on the Old Water-Front. Eighty years ago, Boardwalk Way      ...
Monday, February 15, 2010

I LEARNED TO KILL FOR YOU

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by Ray Brown Just 19, I was ferried through the desert in a copter, where we worried that the eternal sands of this enemy’s land would choke...