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"Joe Hill's Last Will" Is A Play to Remember

 

Worldwide it has been a banner year for centenary celebrations. 2015 is, for example, the two hundredth anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, and the eight hundredth anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta.

In America, one centenary which…

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Reconsidering The Capitol Sing

     I will probably be politically pilloried for what I am about to say, but it is something that needs to be said. We need to take a very long, very hard, and very different  look at what is happening each…

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Observations on Christmas and Christians

As Christians celebrate, on this day, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, I would like to remind the Fundamentalists why we are called Christians.

     It is not because of The Book of Genesis, although that book is…

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Gratitudes

 

I am grateful that Ingrid Frances Stark is part of my life. She marks the second time in my life that I have found a soulmate. Many people never find one. I am truly blessed.

I am grateful that I…

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We Need To Start Using The "F" Word!

     The word is “Fascism”! I am not using this word lightly. I am not using this word, in any manner, facetiously or as any form of epithet. I am using the word because it best describes our current political reality.

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Making Changes

Reinvention Back at the end of the 1980’s and into the beginning of the 1990’s there was a fellow named Tom Peters who was making quite a splash in business news circles He was also catching on with much of…

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What Happened In Maine?

Once again the Republican Party is actively proving something which I’ve been saying for years. You can’t have a circus without elephants. This is not about Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker’s union busting (and budget busting) agenda. This not about the…

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Frog Fight

Frog Fight No frogs were waiting on the front porch to greet Winthrop when he got home from school on Tuesday. The frogs had been there to greet him every day for as long as he could remember (given that…

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Random Thoughts

You can always tell when a trend has run its course. Justin Bieber Singing Toothbrushes (yes, there really is such a thing) were selling for $29.90 each. Now you can get two for $14.00 from Groupon.com What is frightening isn’t…

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Security?

Recently singer/songwriter, Randall Williams posed an interesting question on Facebook. He asked his friends to define the word “securityâ€. One suspects that for every five people one asks one is likely to get seven or eight answers. There will…

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