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Building Trouble: 2837 Scioto Trail
[In view of the recent indictment of a SOLACE officer, I am reposting a piece I wrote on SOLACE'S connection with the putative anti-drug crusading Police Chief Charles Horner back in October 2012.]2837...
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The Republican Debate: Who Goes First?
Jeb Bush blithely steps on stage while Trump and Carson, who had previously been announced, stand dumbfounded in the wings. If you did not watch the beginning of the Republican New Hampshire debate...
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Bad Vibes
Photo by Bo Mohl As we approach the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Marx's Das Kapital (1867), I want to use a piece of my limited private...
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The Appalling Whiteness
"If politics is the art of the possible, the scowling, cranky, choleric, septuagenarian Sanders is a somewhat impossible candidate." Because citizens can now vote weeks before a scheduled...
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Kasich Wins with Crossover Vote?
Screen showing the 35% Democrat-Independent crossover vote Perhaps the biggest late night revelation about Ohio’s Republican and Democratic primary elections yesterday, Tuesday, March 15th, was...
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Trump: Ticking Cardiac Time Bomb
Senior citizen joggingA news report over the weekend reminded us what is generally well known even if often ignored. Exercise is good for our overall health and increases longevity. A 1995 study of...
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The Carptetbagging Sitting Manager
The Sitting Manager in the Store WindowTell me who's that smiling store-window dummy,that crooked chair warmer with the big tummy,that perjurer whose scam began to unravelwhen he awarded a crony a...
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Tie-less in Gaza
Et tu, McCain?The above photo of independent-minded Senator John McCain suggests the big tie addiction is pervasive in all wings of the Republican Party from President Donald Trump down to the crotch....
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The Insane Sonnet
Winking the eye happens everywhere,early morning, at noon, not just at night.Winking the eye’s a meme in Shakespeare,the me and the thee united in sight.Winking the eye is love’s opening ploy,the fond...
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Some Things a Poem Can and Can’t Do
Exhibition of Mark Rothko's Black Paintings at the National Gallery of ArtA poem can’t raise the dead, and it can’tstop a rising river flooding the marsh;It cannot brook...
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Pillars of Pretentiousness and Hypocrisy
The 1810 House There is an op-ed piece by David Leonhardt in The New York Timesdated May 25, 2017, titled “The Assault on Colleges— and the American Dream.” I read it wondering, since there...
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Post Trump Stress Disorder
Melania Trump's colorful, $51,500 jacket As is generally known the acronym PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I saw recently online the christening of Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder,...
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Last night I watched a 1944 Hollywood movie I’m from Arkansas. It is what was called a “B movie,” meaning it was low-budget, made to satisfy the film appetite of the large movie going public of...
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Obscene Jester
"Mr. Met's Obscene Gesture Makes Crazy Season Even Crazier." N.Y. TimesMr. Met gave fans the finger?On this let us not linger.Yes, he has a big...
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Sonnet on Sunday
Billy Sunday PreachingLike Clark Kent in a telephone booth,Billy’s favorite colors were red, white and blue.His favorite truth was the gospel truth—he was one of Our Pilot’s...
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Doubting Mantis
The form precipitation took—a pitiful, will-o’-the-wisp mist—would have disappointed evena dyed-in-the-wool optimist.So a Mantis prayingfor the end of the droughtlooked like a...
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Structure and Meaning
selfie Thinking a lot about suicidegives his life meaning and structureseparates the ephemeral from the puncturethat caused the crash fifty-two years agothat...
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Somersaults
She was so unlovable the birdswould stop singing when she was near,parrots be at a loss for words,and blue skies would turn drear.Spring would come late as possible,and summer seem so very farand...
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Avocado Cantata
Still Life with Apple and Avocado by Dan HaragaI had my first avocado in Las Vegas around 1953 when I was hitchhiking from Boston to sunny San Diego.I had just turned twenty-one as I recall.I...
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The Double-edge
The double-edge of old ageis that you forget so damn fast.You no sooner turn the pagethan you forget what you read last.The novel renews itself by escaping from the past.Books put in their place on the...
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