If you are feeling like I am right now, you are dreading the inevitable holiday dinner sit down that could possibly turn into something like a wrestling cage match.
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Five Ironies of the Trump Victory
Trump's victory has been described as a populist revolt. Yet Clinton won a majority of the popular vote.
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Your write-in vote is not just one small step calling for change in this election but a giant leap for redefining democracy in America.
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Why is the mall decorated for Christmas in October?
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Google has been amping up its powers with its advertising platform, Google AdWords. Meanwhile most people have been going about their daily lives unaware that they’re quite literally being targeted throughout their day.
Read More »American Bard: Bob Dylan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Anyone who has listened to Dylan’s songs has known that they are pure poetry.
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With apologies to the great Cole Porter, all the world does not love a clown.
Read More »Alicia Machado’s Story Proves That Beauty Pageants Should Be Gone With the Wind
It would seem that it is time to dispense with these annual charades that advertise themselves as contests that supposedly empower women but do nothing more than qualify and objectify them.
Read More »October 1: United Nations International Day of Older Persons
But we shouldn't need the UN, or a special day, to make an effort to understand the aged, and to become not only patient but respectful.
Read More »Hero of the American Taxpayer: Why Clinton Won’t Draw Much Blood from Trump’s Tax Return Secrecy
Hillary Clinton shouldn't expect to score major political points by implying, or even showing, that Donald Trump doesn't pay his personal income taxes. It just puts him in a place where we all, at least on some level, wish we could be.
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