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Jul.31.2008
In the middle of the last century, stories were told of poets in the then USSR commanding audiences of tens of thousands for readings. America was astounded. Poetry? Not rock and roll? Granted, the Soviet Union backed those poets and rock stars were, of course, not allowed to tour...
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Jul.30.2008
I remember the days when people used to write something–a novel, a newspaper column, whatever–and it stood. Absent some blatant factual error, what you read was what you got.
The same used to be true about what people said, particularly famous people, who speak a lot, in public, with people...
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Jul.28.2008
Seven Army former POWs greet the media from the balcony of their hospital ward at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Landstuhl, Germany, at noon, local time, on Friday, April 18, 2003. Image Credit: Melvin Tarpley, Visual Information Services Europe, 2d Signal Brigade - wikimedia.orgObama’...
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Jul.23.2008
Senator Barack Obama and Terry Moran of ABC News - "I've always reserved the right, uh, to say---let's say that ethnic, uh, ethnic fighting broke out once again---I've reserved the right to say---I don't--I'm not going to stand idly by if genocide is occurring.”, said Barack Obama. Image...
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Jul.18.2008
From the Slope Oak (Iowa) Herald: (http://news.hunkydunk.com)
Several Slope Oak teens, diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder, have been swamping an Internet chat forum since school let out last month, filling the forum with anti-Obama conspiracy theories and generally annoying the...
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Jul.18.2008
Oh peace be freeOh mind relaxsettle down, unwindbecause the storms are so unkind.
I'm about to lose my mind.Dear God I am on my knees,Stop this abuse!! Can't you seeI need a piece of mind.
I'd rather lock myself in school todaythen I don't have to go home,to face another hit, the belt, a stick,...
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Jul.16.2008
All the media world's a-twitter about the New Yorker cover caricaturing Barack and Michelle Obama as the right's terrorist nightmare: fist-bumping in mideast mufti in the Oval Office, burning the flag, a portrait of Osama bin Laden over the fireplace, a machine-gun slung across Michelle's broad...
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Jul.16.2008
I've given up on cable news channels.
Oh, sure, they're great for the important stuff, like the fact that Brangelina gave birth to human babies the other day.
But if you want to know what's going on in the election campaigns, you gotta fire up the modem, crank up the computer, dial up that old...
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Jul.14.2008
NEW YORK, N.Y., July 12...Anarcho-Feminist presidential candidate Leah Schildkraut posed a provocative challenge to John McCain and Barrack Obama today.
"Give us your position on a woman's right to orgasm."
She was referring to an amendment to the Ecuadoran Constitution proposed by...
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Jul.12.2008
(First published on blogcritics.com)
It has been widely reported that liberals are more pessimistic than conservatives. Although I am not sure I buy the research I certainly fall into the liberal progressive pessimist category when it comes to the political process and the American public’s...
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