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Tax breaks for the Wealthy: Gullivers in Lilliput

    Thank you for inviting me on. I am a simple prole living on the East Coast. This is my maiden entry. I can no longer stand by and watch while great denial of the obvious threatens to convince...

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Family Values: That Deadly Ideal

    If you are as baffled as I am by the idolatrous obsession most of the mass media has with the Tea Party, despite being polled as only 1/5 of all Americans, I may have stumbled on a solution. At...

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Film "Dogtooth" and the American Dream

    We have been spoon-shovelled by pundits all over the spectrum about how each and every one of them seeks office to save "The American Dream". For many years now I have been pondering this ideal. I...

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Dry Up Oil Companies One Drop at a Time

    I'm sorry I've ben away for so long. The early winter had me reexperiencing a long gone illness. The rest of the time I've been researching. This has to do with the biggest danger to our planet...

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Scrubbing Oil Off my Skin: Reducing Oil Drop by Drop

    It's good to be back. I don't have a home computer hookup at this time though I hope to remedy this soon. As I see the entire Middle east further descend into chaos because these countries working...

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Heaven Is for Wimps: A Lay Buddhist Describes the Ten Worlds and Why They're...

    When I was coming home from the grocery store a few days ago I couldn't escape hearing another idiotic ramp by a truly pathetic woman who went on and on about how we are all in Earth's last days...

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Heaven is for Wimps#2: Some Post Apocalyptic Thoughts

    I enjoyed my creme brulee coffee on Sunday.     Thank you for all the comments. Again, this is not an attempt to impose ideas based on what happens to be my little private practice. I just thought...

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The "Rosa Parks" of Healthcare

    Don't let Richard Verone of North Carolina slip under the radar. He is the 59-year old unemployed man with two slipped discs and a suspicious tumor on his chest who "robbed" a bank so he could be...

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Isolationism and racism: Our Neanderthal Heritage?

    I have never believed in the "purity" of anything. After half a century on this Earth and a quarter century of actually trying to use my senses, I have come to the conclusion that no one creates a...

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Bertrand Russell on why We Can't Live in a "Christian Society"

    One of the main reasons our Constitution writers separated church and state might have been the realization, once they actually knew each other, that any society driven by absolute "pure" morality...

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Women-Hating Women: The "Queen Bee" syndrome

    I apologize for not having written here lately. I've been hauling a LED streetlight around trying to clue my city in about how to save $24 million a year and maybe REOPEN children's centers....

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Some Definitions for the Times by Ambrose Bierce

    How often do we keep hearing that folks who don't know their history are comdemned to repeat it? I'd like to offer some observations by the  satirist and curmudgeon Ambrose Bierce. This runaway...

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Anyone Think of This? A new Perspective about Trayvon Martin

    It is a bit of a relief to me that George Zimmerman is behind bars. I suppose it is his right to be somewhat safely alive for his trial rather than trying to get various media personalities to aid...

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Calling All American Buddhists: Support Marriage Equality

    To say I am a bit dissapointed in North Carolina's "majority vote" to deny basic citizenship  to its' gay population and theri families and anyone not "religiously" m arried     and THEIR families...

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The Real Reason behind Healthcare Repeal

    I am still trying to figure out why so many ordinary Americans seem not to understand why basic healthcare is so essential to a strong functioning society. How can you like parts of a bill, but not...

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Leaner, Greener, and Keener: Good News from Baltimore

    I have tried to encourage as many people as I could that, in order to forge this society to be a truly living one, and not a new feudal "ancien regime" the pltocrats want to turn us into, we have...

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Leaner, Greener, and Keener: Baltimore County MD Government Contact information

    Sorry I took so long to get back to you about how my fellow mice are doing in neighboring Baltimore County. My last news were about the hundreds of LED Streetlights that are cropping up in select...

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Romney/Ryan and the New Ancien Regime

    I keep reading all these major polls showing President Obama and Romney seemingly running neck-and-neck. To paraphrase comedian Lewis Black, are you fracking kidding me?!     I don't understand...

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For the "47%" who Still Want to Vote Against Themselves

    I don't know how the pollsters are framing their questions, but I still find it mind-bogling that almost half the nation really believes that electing Louis the XVI and Turgot...I mean Romney and...

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Grown-Ups at Last: Maryland Passes Marriage Equality

    On the whole, this has been overall the happiest election I have seen. For women, for minorities, for the hope that our young will have a future beyond subsistence survival I am quite optimistic...

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