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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.

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      Challenging the Republicans, Part 1: Repudiating Trump

      Challenging the Republicans, Part 1: Repudiating Trump

      Yesterday, President Obama said this: "I think what's been interesting is the repeated denunciations of his statements by leading Republicans," he said in a press conference. "The question I think they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what

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      Georgians should think young person for Senate

      Georgians should think young person for Senate

      Since Georgia will be choosing a new U.S. senator in 2014, what would be best consideration for the people of Georgia in picking this person? One thing for certain: forget sheer logic, which is too simplistic a way for the voters of Georgia to act. After all, no matter what political race you con

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      On Revelation… and Weight Loss

      On Revelation… and Weight Loss

      It’s funny how we come to learn certain things. Sometimes revelation steals into your brain in the wee hours, while you’re deep in REM sleep. ‘The solution’ just slams into your mind, causing you to pitch straight up and shout "By golly I’ve got it!" (or some such). With self assurance, 

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      Just a Bitch of a Day

      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

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      NC Senate Votes To Repeal Racial Justice Law

      NC Senate Votes To Repeal Racial Justice Law

      Acceding to the demands of state prosecutors, the North Carolina Senate passed a bill Monday by a 27-14 vote that will effectively repeal the Racial Justice Act, jeopardizing what had been heralded as a step forward for the criminal justice system. The act, which a coalition effort passed in a Democ

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      Religious Experiences

      Religious Experiences

      The Baptist church in Demopolis, Alabama, was hot. I was thinking about Sunday dinner when my brother Rick stirred in his seat. I thought his leg was asleep but he slid into the aisle and walked down to the front to accept Jesus as his personal savior. I began to sob uncontrollably, happier than eve

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      "I Asked Bobby Dylan, I Asked The Beatles"

      [caption id="attachment_63071" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Seekers backstage at the Omni, Atlanta, Georgia. November, 1975. Left to right: Pete Townshend, Greg Biggs, Janet Caldwell, Jeff Cochran[/caption] There's a lot on Pete Townshend's mind -- and a lot to get off his chest. His opening

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      Polling Errors

      Polling Errors

      Ever since the polls got Brexit and Trumpocalypse so wrong, inquiring minds have been wondering how could the pollsters, and by extension all the media, lead us astray?  In the past week, many publications like The New York Times have discussed the polling problems. As a survey researcher, m

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      Warped Views of President Obama Push "Conservatives" Into Bizarre, Unconstitutional Territory

      Warped Views of President Obama Push

      It is now 60 years that I’ve been following American politics closely. Long enough to get surprised when the way things have always been change dramatically into something never seen before. I have been surprised, for example, to see people who regard themselves as “conservative” readil

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      The Turtle Speaks

      The Turtle Speaks

      Daily green dots appear in the withered brown grass... “How about getting me a pencil, please? Better not start with a pen. And will you fix me a cup of Earl Gray, with some of those little sesame cookies?” Bulbs planted confidently months earlier explode in bright colors. “Where

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      The GOP and the Constitution: The Grotesque Mismatch Between Walk and Talk

      The GOP and the Constitution: The Grotesque Mismatch Between Walk and Talk

        Which party do you think of when you hear the phrase, “defender of the Constitution”? I would wager that members of both parties would immediately think of the Republican Party, because they are the ones who most loudly proclaim their deep allegiance to our founding document. Yet in

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      Free The Lobster!

      Free The Lobster!

      This whole thing started when my Aunt Margaret killed that chicken. Let me quickly establish that I am a happy carnivore. I’ve eaten everything including roasted musk ox. (Don’t. Just don’t. Promise me.) I am well aware that meat comes from animals, and I am more than a little familiar with

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      Focus on words

      Focus on words

      But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. -- Lord Byron The Sixth Annual Dahlonega Literary Festival and Writers' Conference will take place Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6-8, at venues throughout t

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      Suck It, Betty Crocker

      Suck It, Betty Crocker

      I have maintained for quite some time that one could not duplicate the moist, light consistency of a boxed chocolate cake mix in a homemade recipe.  I would see a beautiful recipe in a magazine or cookbook, try it and always be disappointed with the results (too dry, too dense, etc.).  So I gave u

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      The chicken issue

      The chicken issue

      Well, chickens are back in the news. With all the attention being paid to the debt ceiling media event, the school mess and the endless stories on CBS Atlanta about the fireman who was smoking dope on the job, it’s easy to understand how you may have missed the chicken crisis in Cobb County. To

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      $2.5 Trillion. Whoop-dee-doo!

      $2.5 Trillion. Whoop-dee-doo!

      Two and a half trillion dollars. That's a lot of money. That's what some Republicans in the House of Representatives want to cut out of the national budget over ten years. That's two and a half bucks, followed by twelve zeros. Doesn't sound like much, when you say it that way, does it? It isn

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      Pope Francis' Integral Ecology

      Pope Francis' Integral Ecology

      "The age of nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the earth." -- Teilhard de Chardin There's a new term being bandied about, and it's high time we paid heed: integral ecology. Whenever the same notion arises synchronously in a number of different contex

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      Shopping in hell

      Shopping in hell

      I hate supermarkets with a passion. I’m getting on a bit – not ancient, mind, but getting on – and I’m old enough to remember when the first of these horrors opened their doors in Australia. The Aussie equivalent of the five and dime – based on the US model – had been around since 1914,

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      I've been thrown out of better places

      I've been thrown out of better places

      Signs are endlessly fascinating, thanks in part to our long tradition of protecting free speech, no matter how silly. There's a little enterprise stuffed into one end of a convenience store I pass about once a week. The primary sign — lighted and professionally produced — announces the busine

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      The Creampuff

      The Creampuff

      [caption id="attachment_65440" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Carter and Mondale with members of the White House traveling press corps softball team, dubbed the News Twisters, at the Plains High School baseball field. Carter’s own team was made up mainly of off-duty US Secret Service agents. One

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