Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Perhaps There Really Are Two Americas

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Way back in 2004, a then-up and coming Democratic senator named Barack Obama gave a stirring speech about how there were really no Red State...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

My Valentine's Birthday and My First Year of Blogging

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Yesterday was my birthday.  Over the years, I've had a love-hate relationship with that particular event.  For one thing, my birthday fa...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Some Lessons from the New Hampshire Primaries

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If you had told me six months ago that the winners of the New Hampshire Primary would be an outspoken TV celebrity and real estate mogul (Do...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

What We Learned from the Iowa Caucuses

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Because I'm fascinated by politics, I was one of the folks who stayed up till about 3:30 A.M. to find out whether Hillary Clinton or Ber...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

They've All Come to Look for America: Some Thoughts about the Presidential Campaign

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I must admit that I really like Bernie Sanders' newest campaign ad, the one that uses the song "America" by Simon & Garfun...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Man of Words, Man of Music: Some Thoughts on the Passing of David Bowie

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When I was in college at Northeastern University in Boston, I became the campus radio station's first female disc jockey in late 1968; I...
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Friday, January 8, 2016

A World of Misinformation-- Life in a Post-Factual Society

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I know I've mentioned this before, but if there's one thing I continue to be disappointed about, it's how little the facts seem ...
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