Tag: american exceptionalism
member name: Jesse BC
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August 25, 2007 12:11 AM EDT --
Joanne Rowling’s fans give her way too much credit – and not nearly enough.
The British billionaire (the first novelist in history to make that kind of money from writing) scarcely needs introduction . . . more
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November 13, 2007 10:19 PM EST --
I enjoy Independence Day because it always involves the Three B's -- barbecue, beer, and bug spray. But it's hard to be politically radical on the Fourth of July, when fireworks are toxic to the . . . more
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June 27, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
My best picks for 2006
9) Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution by Richard Laermer and Mark Simmons (Collins, anticipated publication March 2007)
Half how-to manual, half radical . . . more
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February 27, 2008 02:47 AM EST --
Much effort has been sustained by the Bush administration in the last six years to connect the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein in the American public mind. Using the commonalities of Islam and hatred . . . more
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December 02, 2007 11:24 PM EST --
When I rise up
Let me rise up joyful
Like a bird.
When I fall
Let me fall without regret
Like a leaf.
-- Wendell Berry
There is a country within a country. It is cordoned off by . . . more
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May 24, 2007 06:09 AM EDT --
Between the dark and the daylight,
When night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the children's hour.
A whisper and then a silence,
Yet . . . more
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