Turmoil in Libya: How Responsible Is the U.S.?
Muammar Gaddafi has held the hand of both Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Literally and figuratively, some might say. He’s shown himself to be quite the tyrannical despot, or despotic tyrant—whatever...
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1. The Dalai Lama is leaving politics.2. Have you ever been on TV before?3. If you kill my hamster, I’m gonna call the cops.4. The world’s billionaires.5. There are pirates in Massachusetts. Yes,...
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1. What do we do on Facebook?2. Radiation could affect unborn Japanese children.3. Gaddafi wasn’t already crazy?4. Coke beats Diet Coke beats Pepsi.5. Buzzer beaters. 6. How not to pay for The New...
View ArticleFlash Dance Mobs Make Me Cry
Like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring, flash mobs embody community and, ultimately, hope.For heaven’s sake. I am a 37-year-old man. I’ve built houses, I kind of play rugby, and I have a beard....
View ArticleDictators Rule, Okay?
Dictatorial behavior runs the gambit from personal relationship to political power. –––The dictatorial parent who will never be questioned or contradicted, the lover who maintains absolute control,...
View ArticleMisrata dawn
Helen Wing gives voice to the horrors perpetrated on young women and men in the 2011 Libyan uprising.—Misrata dawnThe girls are quiet. There have been twenty of us before.The captain beats us until we...
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