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Author: Lorraine Berry

Lorraine Berry is project director for NeoVox, an online international student magazine, at SUNY Cortland. She is a frequent contributor to Salon.com and also writes for Does This Make Sense? and Talking Writing. She studied at Cornell University and the University of Washington.

E-mail: [email protected]

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by Lorraine Berry News Politics Talk Views

Denying Access to Plan B: An Act of Political Cowardice

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A Biscuit Delayed Is A Biscuit Denied

There is an old story about the ten-year old Alabama boy, Junior, who had never spoken a word in his life. Then, one morning at the breakfast table, the lad suddenly blurted out, greatly annoyed, "Mama, you've burned these here biscuits!" His mother and the rest of the family were dumbstruck.

My Favorite Southern Trees

I’m not just an unabashed tree hugger, I’m a tree kisser. When the mood strikes me, I’ll wrap my arms around a big white oak or sassafras or tulip poplar and plant a big wet one right on the scratchy bark. We Southern tree lovers are especially fortunate. Of 688 tree species native to the U

The TEA Conundrum

The Taxed Enough Already people were/are deceived, but they can't see it. Why? It's not the fault, as some people would have it, of the corporate (Koch) effort to take these disgusted citizens over. And it's not that the corporate claim to being sympathetic and understanding of the plight of being t

Just a Bitch of a Day

The events of 9/11/01, for those of us who witnessed it and have lived through its effects on foreign policy and the subsequent assault on civil liberty in this country, the date will forever mean only one thing. That thing is, of course, the destruction of the World Trade Center, the attack on the

Sense of Humor

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."—Auden There is a distinct British sense of humor, often wry, dry and irreverent. It doesn’t rely on smut to be effective, although we’re amused by suggestion

The GOP Simultaneously Cries 'Wolf' and 'The Sky Is Falling'

Despicable. That's the only word for it. I refer to the recent official email "Responding to the Ebola Crisis" of October 17 from my congressional representative, Bob Goodlatte, of Virginia's 6th District. It begins by stating that "Ebola now spreading in the United States is of extreme conc

I See Something. And I’m Saying Something

After the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, our elected officials are screaming “If you see something, say something!” Well, after nearly 300 school shootings since 2013 with 18 this year, I’m seeing something. And I’m saying something. When a former student entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas H

Captain William R. Brewster, Jr.

The first time I met William R. Brewster, Jr. was in the fall of 1957. I was a new cadet at Georgia Military Academy in College Park, Georgia, and he was the superintendent. He was Commander Brewster then, a retired Navy officer. When I graduated from GMA, Commander Brewster had become Captain Brews

Scent of kerosene leaves mark

ALONG THE GULF COAST – The hint of kerosene in the air on Mobile Bay served as an immediate reminder of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It wasn't an overpowering scent, but a faint fragrance similar to what you might smell a few minutes after spraying WD-40 on something. For al

Campaigning for Freedom: Azadeh Shahshahani

Largely missing in the current immigration policy debate is the reality that the legal treatment of immigrants is first and foremost a human rights issue. Altogether lost in that debate is that their treatment also has important implications for the rights of U.S. citizens. What Azadeh Shahshahani,

Dew Drops: Did the Devil make God do it?

Even some conservatives cringed at remarks made by televangelist Pat Robertson and radio talker Rush Limbaugh regarding the earthquake in Haiti. The Republican governor-elect of Robertson's home state of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, said he had not heard Robertson's remarks "but from what I know of

Train to Lowu and Bridge to Shenzhen

It had been a busy four days in Hong Kong after an interesting landing at Kai Tak Airport. There was only one approach to Kai Tak, up Victoria Harbor, turn north east across the Kowloon Peninsula towards Kowloon Peak with its blinking red light and make a sharp ninety degree turn over Mong Kok. The

Black From Tula & The Mortgage Lifter

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Pope Warns of Global Dumbing

Having returned from his trip to the U.S. where he addressed Congress, Pope Francis on Tuesday issued an encyclical from the Vatican warning of "man-made Global Dumbing." "It disturbs me beyond belief the level of intelligence quotient that I encountered during my visit to the U.S., especiall

Dance To The Music Of Time

The practice Sunday morning went well and my wife Jody said that I had “nailed” the playing of my alto sax part of The Black Cat Rag, a snappy and quick-paced piece of music by Frank Wooster and Ethyl B. Smith written in 1905. It has been a tough piece, however, for me to get my fingers around i

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Angry Skies

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Legislative kooks, weirdos can give Georgia a black eye

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