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Any Storm from This Port

It takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob....

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Lost Colossus

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore.                                                          -  CiceroThus reborn we will be baptized anew in the common waters of humanity.In an aged...

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A Bright Whining Lie

(The government) accused us and the other reporters of spreading falsehoods. We were politically suspect. We ought to be fired. Many of our editors doubted us....

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Journalism (and The Resistance) missed Flight 3411

The Five Questions “Journalism” Forgot to Ask.The United episode was certainly another example of American corporations’ immunity to the arcane dignity of commercial civility. Not that we expect much...

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Sick Transit, Glory of McCain

                        It is in many ways genuinely comforting that John McCain is able to return this week for to lay down his trembling Vote. Senator McCain is without a doubt a far greater, more...

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Dream of the Minotaur: Searching for Trump in his own Maze.

All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a shared past.  In general, every country has the language it deserves....

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Desolate by the Shore: Arcadia's Last Stand

and the only sound that’s left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row                          —   Bob DylanThe ships of state lay mucked afoul and in black water listing.A...

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White House Resistance Op/Ed: The Ultimate Folly of Propaganda is the Silence...

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with themSenator John McCainThe medium of The Gray Lady’s OP/ED stunner I am a Part of the Resistance...

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Elizabeth Warren’s Last Dance

Dak'i ñ'ago äho'ähe'dal, Gâ'dal-gâ'ga äho'ähe'dal, Do'm-gâ'ga äho'ähe'dal.The spirit host is advancing, they say. They are coming with the buffalo, they say. They are coming with the (new) earth, they...

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A Dog in the Hunt, A Man on the Moon and a Party on the Edge of Darkness

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.- Mark TwainI think a lot of the D wave optimism going around right now is based on circumstantial evidence that in many...

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The Wrong Kind of Blue

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ----John F....

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Catcalled Here for my Doubts. Am I Another lost Moderate?

I am deeply moved and agree with this post by Granny Carol: www.dailykos.com/…It comes as close as possible to expressing my concerns — without getting me banned for life from here. I had a rough week...

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