Bebé By Margaret Van Every I had been passing much of the afternoon at a Starbucks in Midtown, answering email as I waited for my ride to arrive at 5:30. I had been homeless all afternoon, as are many who drift into Starbucks seeking refuge from the elements, access to wifi, or perhaps a […]
Democracy in the USA is Dead! A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue that over the past few decades America’s political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy
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A Vietnam War Brief (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) By Beverly Bandler bgbandler@yahoo.com What We and Others Might Have Been Spared Had JFK Lived Various timelines are offered for the Vietnam War, a war of mind-boggling complexity, a blood bath of valor and brutality, ideals and corruption, determination and banality—a war that revealed
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Hanged Man There’s a hanged man outside in my yard, he swings in the wind like a black fruit and I feel his weight falling into the void. On a moonless night he’ll come to my door with an end of knotted rope around his broken neck, and he’ll ask to come in
Ramblings From The Ranch By Syd Sullins For us at the Ranch, we love to look back on the dogs that have left the Ranch and found happy loving homes. One of these was Keno. Before volunteering at the Ranch I didn’t get the attraction to pit bulls. I felt they were dangerous and
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“COWBOY UP” – Riding the Dream By Rosemary Grayson “Everyone wants to be cowboy,” said Rosalind Freed now one of a new breed of ranchers in Arizona. I flew over to visit Ros and her husband Ted Freed. They are now launching their Lakewood Ranch for horse lovers in the Chino Valley, two hours
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My Grandmother’s Cellar By Roger Johnson The cellar was open, but my cousin Joey ducked in even when we had been told to stay out. Of course we were supposed to stay out of the silo and granary too, but that hadn’t stopped us. We were at our grandparents’ farm where we all gathered
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Syrian Conflict Explained! Courtesy of James Garrow (For those who think foreign policy is easy.) —President Assad (who is bad) is a nasty guy who got so nasty his people rebelled and the Rebels (who are good) started winning. —But then some of the rebels turned a bit nasty and are now called Islamic State
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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com January 2016 (&^%#&$@!)?&#@! Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by Bernadette Jones, will be performed this month at the Bravo! Theatre. An almost all female cast is the twist they are bringing to this Pulitzer Prize winning play about a very competitive real estate sales
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Self-Esteem By John Ward When Groucho Marx said: “I wouldn’t belong to any club that would have me as a member,” he was, obviously, making a joke, but he was also touching on a far more pervasive and insidious characteristic of human frailty. Recently I gave a talk at LCS’s version of “TED” –
