Category: Politics and Society
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Impossible Things.
This weekend marks the traditional anniversary of the founding of Rome in 753 BC. Like so many historically…
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Some Boys Never Learn.
The world has been treated, over the last several days, to a somewhat embarrassing overlap between two of…
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Speak, Apologize. Repeat.
Back in the mists of history — about the fifth grade, I think it was — a teacher…
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A Heart Unloosed
On the Mexican 200-peso note, in place of the usual frock-coated revolutionary leaders and be-feathered Aztec potentates, is…
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Saying it with Flowers
The mere fact that twenty-six states have a State Reptile and at least one state (Louisiana) has a…
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History at the Doorstep.
Sitting in Miss Burkett’s second-grade class, in the damp March chill of that crumbling old school, We knew…
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Not quite lost in the weeds
Without maintaining interests outside of politics, we have no way to place the issues in their proper context,…
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Sing, Baby, Sing
The consensus seems to be that regulation of the petroleum industry is the source of the problem: with…
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The Good Old Days
The temperature tonight is descending into the thirties. (Single digits, centigrade, for those of you who measure things…
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