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Poetry: Where Your Vote Really Counts

By On April 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

Tired of the never-ending Democratic Primary and annoyed that, in the end, your vote might not really count anyway if the Super Delegates opt to nominate the candidate not in the lead when all is said and done?

As in many other aspects of life, poetry offers a much-needed alternative.

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Go see Liberty City

By On March 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Reviews

I went to see Liberty City last night, April Yvette Thompson’s multi-layered, one-person account of her upbringing in the infamous Miami neighborhood during the chaotic 70s, told against a backdrop of the rise and fall of the Black Power movement, the Crack epidemic and the Liberty City Riots that led to Miami being declared a disaster area, [...]

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Hollywood Democratic Debate

By On January 31, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Politics

It was a surprisingly substantial, mature discussion of actual issues between two very Presidential candidates with minimal interference from the moderator, who turned out to be Wolf Blitzer, not Anderson Cooper as I’d thought it would be.

Highlights:

Health Care: The difference between them seems subtle on the face of it but I think it ultimately comes [...]

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Are You a Bad Monkey?

By On January 17, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Marketing

Well, are you?

Matt Ruff has written three of my favorite books, including one of my all-time favorites, Fool on the Hill. One of the coolest birthday presents I ever received was a signed copy of his Sewer, Gas and Electric [Whoops!] Fool — Salomé actually mailed my [...]

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Calm down, people

By On January 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope!”
– Barack Obama

Anyone falling for the media spin that Hillary Clinton’s victory last night in New Hampshire was an upset (or even a comeback) is suffering from a seriously short attention span. She was leading pretty comfortably there before Iowa [...]

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