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Fleet Street Blues, The Media Has Always Mutated
A couple of weeks ago, I was knocking around London’s Fleet Street, where newspapers once spored like mushrooms. Now,...
We Hold These Truths: A New Declaration of Independence
In high school, she was quiet. She was kind, with flashes of dark wit, but boy was she quiet....
Playing Chicken, Reporting from the Field
As Bob Dylan might’ve observed about Petaluma this past weekend, “The sun’s not yellow; it’s chicken,” when a poultry-hued...
Open Mic: Say It Ain’t So, Ex-Prez Cover Up
President Joe Biden’s recent disclosure of an aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis has cast a somber shadow over the...
Open Mic: The New Math, Saving Democracy By the Numbers
Think resisting authoritarianism is too big of a lift? Think again. This spring, while the U.S. resistance movement may...
Open Mic: Odorous Ode for Today’s American
One cursed day it came to pass
In what was the land of the free and the brave
That an old...
Open Mic: Don’t Judge Me, Mi Agenda es Su Agenda
For light reading, I enjoy books and articles that clearly demonstrate that democracy is dead and American society is...
