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So You Want to be President?
Read more: So You Want to be President?For both Clinton and Trump, more reality show than debate. Words in action shift gears. Argument can take the place of what began as conversation. Disdain can intervene to mar sympathy. Baiting can overwhelm debate in a flash. The erudite symbolism of lecterns aside, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made…
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I AM NAKED 🙂
Read more: I AM NAKED 🙂Drop your guard for a second, and nakedity beckons… Yesterday, a charlatan email somehow penetrated my spam filter, which my mind’s eye sees as an enormous spinning wheel with sharp and steely spokes. Anything the wheel detects as alien or impolite it immediately absorbs into a blending device that strips…
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Leaving tomorrow
Read more: Leaving tomorrowSometimes an idyll isn’t one when you get there. Ihave an acquaintance who when I see him talks only about retirement. He’s my age, a child of the 1950s, and has spent a lifetime in a family business he now runs. Until a few years ago he spoke proudly of…
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Yes he can
Read more: Yes he canOnce upon a time: Obama in 2004. In 2008, for those disposed to Camelot-style political romances, Barack Obama was a gift: dashing, luminously eloquent, endowed with a winner’s smile — and yes, black. The racial component, for its unlikeliness, pumped further oxygen into the drama. Now, seven years later, another…
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Futon matter
Read more: Futon matterDetail from Magritte’s “The Mysteries of the Horizon.” In the dead of night I pose semantic riddles. I lie down on an outdoor futon and imagine what it might have been like had concentration camps been places where people were gathered together and asked only to concentrate. Asked, not ordered,…
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Pterodactyls
Read more: PterodactylsBreaking news straight from the center of the earth. The last 15 days of August are traditionally a mass media black hole. News outlets are left to sniff out blood trails. Occasionally terrorists oblige August hankerings, but this year they exhausted their industry earlier in the summer and have (momentarily)…
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