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Feb.08.2013
The first time you read some statistics posted on the Internet, they seem fake from the get-go. Like this post that began making the rounds during the gun control debates:
More Americans have died just since 1960 from gun incidents — suicides, accidents, and homicides — than died in...
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Jan.17.2013
You have to wonder about the mix of marketing, corporation, progressivism, social contract, and anarcho libertarianism that seems to represent the bizzare amalgam that is Whole Foods. I mean, where else do you find the CEO of a company dedicated (or at least in all of its marketing) to the...
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Dec.16.2012
Back in 2008, which seems like a couple decades ago in today’s 24-hour news cycle, I published an article titled America’s Gun Addiction on Yahoo!, then waited for the requisite hateful commentary of gun addicts calling me “naïve” and other such nonsense I never proposed to take away their handguns...
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May.20.2012
We need a new rallying cry. Van Jones has an idea that’s not quite cooked, but suggestive.
On Saturday, someone who heard Jones address a Scott Walker recall rally in Wisconsin tweeted this quote from Jones’ remarks: “Don’t adapt to absurdity.” He was making the point that over time, even what...
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Mar.25.2012
Harper's Magazine, April 2012
Why does a magazine that many think leans toward the upper crust establishment take on the manner in which the ultra rich and the corporate world are eroding U.S. style democracy? Surely because those parasitic tendencies will eventually turn cannibalistic, i....
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Dec.15.2011
The White House announced today that it would not veto the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. The NDAA mandates the military to arrest and indefinitely detain any person, including American citizens, anywhere in the world, including on US soil, who is accused by authorities as a terrorist...
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Jun.11.2011
The Second Son, by Jonathan Rabb
If I were to imagine a book with a dose of Raymond Chandler, sprinkled liberally with Hemingway and seasoned lightly with Joseph Conrad and the Bible, it would be Rabb’s The Second Son. This, the third of a trilogy Rabb has written, takes place in Germany and...
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May.26.2011
My father was a radio operator and ship's caller on the USS Destroyer Escort Lowe when it was first commissioned in 1942.
He was a proud member of the "Coasties," the United States Coast Guard, under the Department of the Navy. The Lowe was part of the "milk run," a convoy of...
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Feb.15.2011
This is not the post I wanted to write. But right now, not far from me, my father struggles with the first really, really awful (physical) pain of his existence.
I can do very little. His pain flows through, in some form, to me – as pain and happiness do to those we love.
I sit, I wait, I watch....
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Dec.25.2010
It's been a long time but I'm back. I will not explain my reasons as they relate to health issues. And yes, everything is fine with me. Thank-you for asking. Okay. Here I go again with my (according to far-right Republicans and a few Democratics) ridiculous annotations and subversive accusations....
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