Sunday, October 31, 2010

MICE IN A FISH TANK

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by Howie Good Someone has posted a picture of Somali child soldiers on telephone poles around town. The only store open is out of t...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

REPEATS

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by Len Kuntz My son says he sees Tutsis, Hutus and machetes in his sleep. He says there’s an imposter looming outside his window. When...
Friday, October 29, 2010

ONCE MORE WITH VIGOR

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by Robert Farmer we scatter blame as if it were healing over a landscape littered with broken tools and standards, lift clashing poli...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

FORTUNE OBIT NO. 3: REACTIONARY COURAGE

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by Patricia Barone “A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water,” This advice seemed crazy to me at first, me ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

A U.S. MINE RESCUE

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by Jen Hinton Sixty-nine days of hope. Fifteen minutes of capsule. Welcome back Topside! But there’s a price tag for rescue now as w...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

THE LABORS OF DOMESTICITY

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by David Feela Nobody imagines the gods anymore, that vast nomenclature of kin tossing lightning bolts or kicking mythological butt so...
Monday, October 25, 2010

THE PATRIOT

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by Jeffrey McDonald The old man sat at the coffee shop counter. One night a young man joined him and said he hates this country, and...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

PILLOW TALK AT THE THOMAS HOUSE

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by Steve Hellyard Swartz “I apologize if you really think I shouldn’t have called Anita.” “The court finds undeniably to be in favor of ...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

THE OTHER 25

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by George Held   For Sergeant Jeff 75 percent of American teenagers aren’t eligible for the Army because they are overweight or have ot...
Friday, October 22, 2010

ONLINE APPEAL

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by David Chorlton The subject line reads: Man to be executed in AZ next Tuesday, you can help stop it. It’s Wednesday. Six days to go ...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

THE CANDIDATE

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by Martha Deed The first from Buffalo since James Mead in 1946 declares his opponent’s prowess in a non-political arena shoves his trig...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

TESTAMENT

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by Jon Wesick I, the baby boomer generation, being of sound mind and body do hereby declare this my last will and testament. To corp...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

ODE TO A GILA MONSTER

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by Rochelle Owens There goes a Gila monster in the beginning of the triumphant twenty-first century there goes a Gila reptile followi...
Monday, October 18, 2010

ONE OF THE TRAPPED CHILEAN MINERS WAS A POET

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by J.R. Solonche Do not send down for me. Instead send down the food and the drink. Send down the clean bed-pans. Send down the pencil...