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Sep.03.2012
An out-of-breath fourteen-year-old girl in cheap shoes hurries to cross the street, her hand clenches over some cash and an electricity bill. A mother feels like forty miles of bad road, stands abandoned in a super market and ponders whether to buy milk or bread. After he sees his neighbor's newer...
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Jul.05.2012
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.”
George Bernard Shaw
Charlie Regan did what he was told. He lived by the Twelfth Commandment and followed the Eleventh. He moved up from the ‘full dinner pail’ to the ‘full garage’. He lived the American...
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Jun.25.2012
The idea of bailing out Wall Street in a deregulated capitalism is far more fantastical than that of a casino giving back all the money a guy lost cheating all night in cahoots with the dealer.
Realizing he will eventually fall asleep, let alone he’s not the only one with a dart, the early...
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent. ”
—Thomas Jefferson
About Sam
I am a freelance writer. I live--born and raised--in Southern California, and I travel all over the world. I studied English literature, philosophy, history, physics and evolutionary biology. I am interested in American culture and I hope to see the day when...