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Feb.06.2011
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Why? Read on...
You think regime change is new? I'll...
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Jan.26.2011
Third in a series of essays on Burr and Jefferson.
[Originally posted Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at: http://thejvbforum.blogspot.com/2011/01/burr-at-jeffersons-inauguration.html.]
Burr's most recent biographer, Nancy Isenberg, writes that "Burr arrived in Washington on March 1, 1801, three...
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Jan.26.2011
Second is a series of essays on Burr and Jefferson.
[Originally posted Monday, January 24, 2011 at: http://thejvbforum.blogspot.com/2011/01/surrendered-into-hands-of-his-enemies.html.]
In 1801, after Jefferson's inauguration, Burr "succeeded in obtaining for [his friend, John Swartwout,] the...
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Jan.26.2011
This is the first in a series of essays on Jefferson and Burr.
Originally posted January 24, 2011 at: http://thejvbforum.blogspot.com/2011/01/burr-jefferson-1.htm.
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About a week or so ago, I finished reading Henry Adams' circa 1300-page history of Jefferson's two administrations. Adams'...
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May.01.2009
Trauma is the big "monster under the bed" (as I wrote here in 2004). It's the elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge. Nobody wants to talk about trauma.
I've been writing and singing about trauma since I started writing and singing in the early 1970's. I performed my early...
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Apr.28.2009
Here is the blurb I have on CD Baby for the Black Hole CD. [Note this blurb only applies to the Black Hole CD songs (recorded in 1998), not to the Sand Songs CD (which were written 20 years before the Black Hole songs).]
<<Puzzle Element Music is Jennifer on guitar & vocals.
These songs...
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Feb.11.2009
I'm a writer. I've always been a writer. But I like fixing cars. (No, I am not interested in writing about it, thank you!)
I used to do the fixing, along with my boyfriend, Gary, who taught me everything on our 1962 VW bug (with a steering lock -- ahead of its time -- and a canvas sunroof, which...
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Feb.03.2009
What's Wrong with Doctors? Can it be Cured? --
Doctors, Diagnoses, and Archetype-Naming
[For some years, I've wanted to talk about what's wrong with the way doctors diagnose, but it wasn't until I juxtaposed it with "archetypes work" that I was able to put it down in print.]
If you...
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Jan.27.2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009 The Secret Lives of Lawyers
Lawyers live secret lives. And they live secretive lives.
Secretiveness does not, itself, make for a secret life. We can be secretive ABOUT something and still live our life out in the open for all to see. Look at Dick Cheney, who...
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Jan.01.2009
One night in my tiny NYC apartment, a friend told me the story of his older brother's death. Feeling not only sympathy for my friend's loss but admiration for the power of his telling, I thought "He's a writer."
Later, when he showed me his poetry, published in Pakistan (his native land...
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Nov.07.2008
I have a half-baked theory that animals and humans share an evolutionary connection that is critical to the survival of the human race. I mean that it is critical that we recognize this connection and respect it.
This is not quite the same as saying "respect animals." Respecting animals...
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"Our only debt is to the element of eternity which is in us, and our duty is to organize ephemeral circumstances so that they contribute to it most effectively...."”
—Marcel Proust
About Jennifer
I was a progressive investigative journalist and legal/political commentator for a variety of online news organs since 2002. My first book, "The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America," was published by Common Courage Press in 2004. My second book...
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