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...

ALL THOSE PATRIOTIC SONGS

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by Alan Walowitz . . . In a democracy, you can only ignore the will of the people   for so long and get away with it.           ...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

BILLIE JEAN KING'S GLASSES

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by Diane Elayne Dees I want to wear them because I want to see what she sees—not a yellow ball dropping lightly over a net, just...
Monday, July 01, 2019

¡BASTA!

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by Kathleen Hellen Cartoonist Michael de Adder was let go from his job drawing editorial cartoons for all the major New Brunswick news...

SHAME

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by Pepper Trail Twitter  @ rodriguezmonos A deadening     a twist             in the mouth     the heart When personal – ...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

SQUID SONNET

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by Anne Graue Seven years after scientists caught the elusive deep-sea cephalopod on video, they saw another. Then lightning struck a ...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

THE GATEWAYS CLUB, LONDON, 1965

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by Barbara A. Taylor The Gateways Club scene from The Killing of Sister George (1968) dir. Robert Aldrich. into this darkness ski...
Friday, June 28, 2019

WHETHER OR NOT OUR ANCESTORS OWNED SLAVES

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by Devon Balwit every day we benefit from neutrality / bodies that say nothing but what we want them to say // presumed-innocent bo...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

VISIBLE THREAT

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by Mark Ward U.S. national-security officials have ordered a Chinese company to sell gay-dating app Grindr, citing the risk that the pe...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

FIDDLING AND BURNING

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by Judy Kronenfeld Because we are old, and will be, conveniently, dead Because no parent or grandparent can bear to think of it Bec...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

WAYS TO AVOID BEN SHAPIRO'S TWITTER DISDAIN

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by CL Bledsoe and Michael Gushue Reinvent Mozart as a swastika. Assert the superior caste of privilege-filled eyes, while never ment...
Monday, June 24, 2019

SARAH'S LEAVING

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by Jeremy Thelbert Bryant “So long, Sarah Huckabee Sanders” by J.D. Crowe In her heavy makeup and pearls, she spouts cheap words n...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

CUSTOMS AND CONCENTRATION

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by Peleg Held Child migrants sleeping on the ground at the McAllen, Texas Border Patrol station. — NowThis , May 19 2019 A scapegoa...

NOT QUITE AMERICAN

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by Myriam Arias EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A legal team that recently interviewed over 60 children at a Border Patrol station in Texas says ...