Category: Politics
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Blood Libel and All That Jazz
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Impressions. Since Sarah Palin does not write her own books — nor credit the ghosts who do, I suppose her “Blood Libel” talk was composed by speechwriters. I also suppose that ignorance is usually surrounded by ignorance, the undereducated in league with the undereducated. Quite likely that team Palin had no…
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Waiting for Messages from the Unconscious
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I am sitting here, waiting, registering myself, thinking, wondering what will ooze forth. Lately I’ve been having the uncomfortable sense that many of my stories sent to online literary editors, probably from ages 25 to 45, may not relate to the kind of stories I write. It is a false fear, I…
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Boundaries
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I really don’t want to write again about Glenn Beck fulminating on Fox 5 views. As an old history major and secondary teacher of social studies for several years, I watched him this afternoon –one does not observe Beck, for he is as deep as a wall decal — take…
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I Have Observed
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I don’t know if you have observed but we have become shabby as a country; the American people absolutely deserve what they are getting, for they have voted in the rascals. Indeed, we are the rascals. I have no faith in politicians but I have a greater lack of faith in…