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Flying Cloud
Read more: Flying CloudJohnny “Flying Cloud,” fighter ace and beacon of the Jurassic. One summer I was almost 12. I had no phone and no computer. Even TV was off limits. I had yet to invent compulsive access to all things, otherwise known as the future. This left me, myself and I —…
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Hey there!
Read more: Hey there!Virgin America’s safety video is a musical, nun included. The incoming plane is late. The delay is conveyed on the gate’s digital message board that scrolls the words HEY THERE! beside a frowning emoticon. A gate attendant makes the announcement as if placating a kindergarten class. She returns to work,…
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Café anti-society
Read more: Café anti-societyYou never know where the bad germs might nest. Iam having coffee in an American café, a poor imitation of something European no one understands to do well but Europeans. This is what I learn about the man beside me, who is seated with his male friend. He has a…
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Greece
Read more: GreeceGreece: Too much noise and too much credit. About the time the United States began its latest nation-building enterprise in Iraq, the European Union was already busy with its own paraphrased version of Manifest Destiny. With the euro in place, EU leaders cast their net toward Eastern European states, hoping…
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Sexual combat
Read more: Sexual combatGay rights illumination… Societies removed from theaters of confrontation and carnage once represented by world war are doomed to seek other distractions to act in war’s ferociously cathartic stead. Sexual identity and gender rights are the 21st-century’s favorite front lines, at least in the West. And there are many campaigns.…
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Mrs. Townsend
Read more: Mrs. TownsendMarjorie Rhodes Townsend (1930-2015) was a NASA rocket scientist and a Washington, D.C. mother to “five.” In the Baptist faith they call it “to testify.” It is the act of coming forward in homage. That is what I am here to do. To testify. And to remember. I was once…
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