Category: Politics and Society
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The Bird and the Fish
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My painting “Dialogue Between the Bird and the Fish” will be finding a new home this weekend, and…
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Truth and lies.
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There’s enough snob value in just having the book in your hand that you don’t have to slave…
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When in danger, When in doubt
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This week saw the first home-grown case of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in – of course – Texas, the…
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Bam. Pow. Kablooie.
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In the comics, nobody was sending us out of the room before the subject of nuclear armageddon was…
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The price of pretty
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Until the Church removed her from the calendar in 1969, July 20 long had the distinction of being…
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Unintelligible at any speed
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Forty-nine years ago today, on May 17, 1965, the FBI released their report: Although there may or may…
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Skiing the Slippery Slope
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On a whim yesterday I wasted twenty minutes on a quiz on the Christian Science Monitor website: it…
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See what you made me do…
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A Persian word that became widespread in the days of the Ottoman Turkish empire — baksheesh — could…
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In a Sea Rendered Great
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We accept the criminal as something other, something so different from ourselves that to some degree we can…
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An Open Letter
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In the early days of the presidential campaign season of 2008 I remember looking at the available choices…
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