Thursday, September 03, 2015

NATURAL ORDER OF THE HOUSEHOLD

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by Jennifer Clark Graphic illustrating  Bill Gothard’s 7 Basic Principles. Source: Raw Story .   “As I became a teenage young...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

TITUM ARUM

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by Joan Colby   The "corpse flower" at the Chicago Botanic Garden was manually opened Sunday morning after it failed to bloom,...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

CENTENARIAN OVERLOAD

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by Marilyn Peretti “Japan considers cheaper congratulatory cups for soaring number of centenarians. Ministry cannot afford to keep ha...
Monday, August 31, 2015

ONE MORE

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by Ann Malaspina Graphic by Imad Abu Shtayyah . Off the island of Kos you crawl through the sea coughing salt flailing arms— ...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

BEFORE THEY KICKED YOU OFF THE TRAIN

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by Megan Collins Five members of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge book club, all of Antioch, from left, Katherine Neal, Georgia Lewis, ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

KATRINA ANNIVERSARY SONG

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by Diane Elayne Dees Uptown; 2012; ©David G. Spielman; from The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City (THNOC 2015) Photo source: ...
Friday, August 28, 2015

EMMETT TILL'S CORPSE TURNS SIXTY

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by Philip C. Kolin from  Jet Magazine , September 15, 1955 via JetCityOrange . Sixty years ago today I started my life as a corp...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

MOBBED

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by Anuja Ghimire At least eight people, mostly security personnel including a Senior Superintendent of Police, and a two-year-old boy ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

THE TWO WORLDS

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by Elizabeth Kerlikowske The digital steel electronic world wears an overlay of nature, a waxy mist. If we are lucky, we choose ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

THE FATHER IN SUMMER PLAINETH FOR HIS SON

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by Cally Conan-Davies O western fire Take this day back Reverse the truck Unburn the wreck. The fire fighters Of the forest ser...
Monday, August 24, 2015

AMERICAN LUST STORY

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by Penny Perkins There’s a boy. And there’s a girl.                                     And you might think just from that set u...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

DON’T JEWISH

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by Max Ochs from Moby Dick or, The Whale . Illustrated by Rockwell Kent published by The Modern Library, New York, 1930 “I have no ...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

SAFE HARBOR

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by Louisa Calio Maria Luisa Catrambone and her parents Christopher and Regina, founders of Migrant Offshore aId Station (MOAS) . The B...
Friday, August 21, 2015

KHALED AL-ASSAD

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by W.F. Lantry Photo: Khaled al-Asaad in 2002. Marc DEVILLE / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images via NBC News .  Small birds, protected...