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HONESTY IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 23 Aug 2013 | 03:59 am
by Richard Day The curse of being Irish is that women just love me for my stories! (Eyewitness_(1981_film@32min) Honesty is the best policy? Really? Forget the best policy aspect of this Franklin...
Who Gets The Benefit Of The Doubt? 22 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm
by Michael Maiello Two recent articles, one in the New York Times and one in The New Republic, worry that Americans are anti-science. They are written, of course, by scientists. I'm actually more w...
My Neighborhood, Times Two 22 Aug 2013 | 08:45 am
by Doctor Cleveland I was back in my old neighborhood a couple of weekends ago, walking toward the farmer's market, when I passed a little knot of people who were looking up and gesturing toward the ...
Macklemore Calls Out White America - Is It Listening? 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
by Orion I am so proud to be from Seattle and to be involved in hip-hop. This is amazing: Gawker quotes Macklemore’s Rolling Stone interview, in which he says in part: “If you’re going to be a wh.....
I Called Elmore Leonard “Dutch” Once 21 Aug 2013 | 02:41 am
by Ramona I woke up to the sad news that Elmore Leonard, our most famous Detroit-based writer, has died. He was 87 years old but I thought that guy would go on forever. There was never anything ...
Advice for the Enemy 20 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
by TimDanahey It may seem un-American to offer advice to the enemy but, if ever there was a win-win situation, this is it. If Al Qaeda would like to win, all they have to do is copy our Vietnam expe...
A TellIng Argument on Social Security 19 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
by Michael Maiello Somehow this weekend I wound up in a Twitter tif with Ed Lorenzen, a senior adviser for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and, I gather, a Simpson/Bowles supporter. I...
Nonchallantly Gay 17 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
by Orion One of the really amazing things about Pope Francis rebuking homophobia was how nonchalant he was about it. There was no huge press conference or media campaign with long explanations about ...
When Social Media Becomes Too Much To Bear (Death Goes Viral) 17 Aug 2013 | 04:37 am
by Natasha Gural I’ve thought a lot about this trend of people planning and sharing on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, anywhere online they they’ll gain the most attention, the most morbid and intimate det...
Swimming to Clayoquot: Preface Part 2 16 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
by Another Trope It has been two and half months since my previous blog and I suppose one might say that a lot has happened, as in it has been a bit of an emotional roller coaster. I am still techn...
