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Maybe it was all those Republicans

By Sam Thompson On January 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Maybe it was all those Republicans. It would be easy to blame them. There have been more global warming deniers in our state for the past year than is natural for any state. Nature responded by giving us balmy weather. Temperatures reached nearly sixty degrees this week. It didn’t work. The only [...]

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Is America a dying nation?

By Op Ed On September 9, 2011 · 8 Comments

It’s a question the must be asked and one that deserves an answer. My opinion, I am sad to say, is yes, America is a dying nation. I base this on the simplest of nature’s rules, that is that the young must journey through the perils that life presents them and take control of [...]

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What did you do during the corporate takeover of America, Daddy?

By admin On July 28, 2011 · 2 Comments

Many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was in a situation where a small group of men had to depend on one another for their very survival. There was no “I” in this situation, there was only “we.” A collective conscience so strong that the concept of self interest had no [...]

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On guitars, politics and sanity.

By Op Ed On July 18, 2011 · 3 Comments

This morning I woke up at 5:30 AM. I fed our old lab, Mike, turned on the tea, stared out the kitchen window at the gathering numbers of titmouse, chickadees, robins, cardinals and towhees, leaned on the kitchen counter without a thought or care in my head. I opened the door to let Mike out [...]

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The language of politics

By J. Danton Smith On March 26, 2011 · 1 Comment


In our world of sound bites, the Republicans are better at playing the game. They seem more willing, and better prepared, to take advantage of a public who would rather not think past the sound bite.

I have posted that I like to ask questions, and I often get angry when the [...]

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