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We Get Used To

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) We get used to the strangest things to birth & death & the world breathing in & out drinking, eating,

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Interview: JM Porup Talks About the Global War on Fat & the Glorious Empire of Air

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Imagine the US being taken over by a zealous fundamentalist who announces a War on Fat. He calls himself the Prophet and orders all food destroyed. His

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Do Obama’s Predator Drone Strikes Make Him A Serial Killer?

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Notre Dame law professor Mary Ellen O’Connell is a: fierce critic of America’s drone attacks outside a war zone, [and] insists the targeted killings are

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Incurable Gonorrhea A Terrorist Plot? How Will This Affect Your Sex Life?

DDA Dear Jesus, first the economy and now this: Historically, gonorrhea was an easily treatable STD, responding to a number of antibiotics, including sulfonilamides, penicillin, tetracycline, and ciprofloxacin. However, the last

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The United States of Air: The First Time I Heard the Prophet Speak

J.M. PORUP (get your free copy of this book here) I will never forget the first time I heard the

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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

JOHN BENNETT (this piece is re-posted from Bennett’s email list of Shards) My fellow American looks in the mirror and

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Who Would Want To Be President? Andrew Sullivan In Despair Over Obama

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles I’ve always thought blogger and writer Andrew Sullivan was kind of boring. I still think

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Please, Washington, Throw Us A Bone?

DDA The following passage reminded me of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and how the rest of us look on

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Wells Fargo Charges Its Poorest Customers Unnecessary Service Fees

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles This is a personal story. It is not objective journalism. Some of you might find

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Of Classical Music & Judges

ERIC CHAET In classical music there are the sweetest, most touching, little melodies & harmonies so profound they pull me

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