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One reason campus sexual assault is such a tough issue to address is that it's so hard to come up with clear, effective language.

I worry that Malheur, after occupation by an armed militia group, will no longer be a protected place where coyote choirs color the night with magical music and millions of birds rest, feed, mate, and raise babies to fly high in the future.

The change in ownership of a locally influential but definitely local paper is big news, even in the age of the decline of newspapers, because of the vast sums of money its new owner spends in the political arena.

When the former U.S. Poet Laureate read the phrase "frying pan of yourself/into the fire..." a young child in the audience gave a magnificent whoop. It was the perfect sound effect to punctuate the hot metaphor.

In sloganeering, clarity must come first.

All this media attention on killers and terrorists is merely giving food to the monster that doth mock the hand that feeds it.

I didn't think NYBG could top itself, but this year the Holiday Train Show is even more magnificent than in the past.

If he can indeed help others – even save other lives – Charlie’s story has a much happier ending than anyone could have imagined for him a few days ago.

The killings in Paris are part of a cycle based on erroneous beliefs and assumptions. Now is a time when we can pause and start a new cycle – a cycle of waking up to our oneness with each other, with our Mother Earth and indeed the entire universe.

ISIS? ISIL? Islamic State? Daesh? What's in a name? A lot.