Newtown | Newtown
Apr.16.2013
Dr. Christiane Northrup says, "The things that make us weep contain something we need to know about."
On this day, I, like you, weep for Boston, Newtown, Aurora, Oslo, Bagdad and countless other places on earth where violence and bloodshed cover the hills, valleys, mountains, streets and streams of...
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Mar.06.2013
Harper’s Magazine, March 2013
If one were to hang one’s hat on any articles in this issue as talking points relating to todays significant issues in the U.S., one need only read through the first dozen pages.
That begins with Thomas Frank’s essay, “Blood Sport,” on the Connecticut...
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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.20.2013
Even though children were murdered at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the total lack of any journalistic standards in the American news media and the crass opportunism of fools on both sides of the gun control issue, conspired to produce The Standard Circus. In...
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Dec.25.2012
Proof-reading the Preface to my poetry manuscript, I see that I had written, "In a time when books and poetry are under the gun, I am all the more grateful for the support..." And I praise my publisher, Joe Phillips, at Black Widow Press. But the phrase, "under...
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Dec.22.2012
Marian Wright Edelman has been at the forefront of advocating for the rights of children for more than a half century. On Friday, December 21, 2012 she posted this call to the moral compass of our country. I reprint it here in its entirety on this, an occasion of historical choice...
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Dec.20.2012
Tonight’s scheduled guest had to cancel, so I took the chance to share with the listeners about a group I have been working with and sharing with that offer a chance for authors and readers to help those recovering from the tragic happenings in Newtown/Sand Hook here in Connecticut. The group...
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Dec.18.2012
This is my wailing wall...
I slip prayers into the spaces between the lines, each word a brick, laden with a lament for too many children . There are too many children sleeping in heaven from starvation, war, the madness diseasing the thoughts of too many young men.
Our soul...
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Dec.18.2012
We don’t.
Carl Jung said, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”For months to come, Americans will make every attempt to fix blame somewhere for the tragedy in Newtown. “What kind of monster would do this?”
Some will blame his mother....
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Dec.17.2012
You, Mr. Huckabee, I think you owe an apology!
What you said in an interview with Cavuto on FOX News is highly offensive:
Cavuto asked: “How could God let this happen?”
To begin with, Mr. Cavuto, on one hand, is asking the wrong question. It is not God we should be asking “Why?” Not until we ask it...
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