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Where Is The Hope In Gears of War?
I’m sitting in front of a cardboard cut-out sign promoting a video game for the XBox 360. It’s called Gears of War 2, and it’s due for release on November 7 – just a few days after Election Day. The...
View ArticleIn City and Country, the Hip Bring Community into Focus
You won’t find the community of West Rose, New York listed on any maps, and I’m not sure it is really there any more. But when I was younger, growing up in rural Central New York, the hills west of...
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The Gay-Unfriendly and Gay-Friendly Towns of Knox County, Maine
Planning a trip to midcoast Maine for next summer? If you’re half of a gay or lesbian couple, plan carefully. It’s unfortunate, but same-sex couples have to carefully consider whether they’ll be...
View ArticlePrediction of Environmental Apocalypse: Will the Oil Spill Take World...
While homeland security zealots have predicted a nuclear weapon attack on United States soil will occur this July 4, a visitor to Irregular Times asserts that we have an apocalypse now. You may have...
View ArticleGovernment is Corrupt. What Would you Have People Do?
That’s what Tom said and asked last night. He’s right: government is corrupt. So would I have people do? I would have people strain and stretch and TRY, and not just through voting, but through...
View ArticleDespite Bible, Avowedly Christian Groups Engage in Usury
The Bible is as clear as mud on many subjects, but it’s absolutely clear about the practice of usury (lending money at a high rate of interest). As far as I’m aware, there are no Bible verses that...
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Are You Ready To Stop Hoping Yet?
At first it seems like a defeatist thing to say that it’s time to stop hoping, but the quality of hope depends upon the context. When liberal author David Swanson quotes Friedrich Nietzsche as calling...
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You Just Didn’t Hope Enough
That sure is a lovely, comforting yellow flower. That sure is a lovely, comforting notion. And yet, despite the considerable hope Christopher Reeve communicated, over and over, it wasn’t possible, was...
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Sex Gap in Pay Narrows to Smallest Extent in U.S. History
In the face of a mantra of “only get worse“, “only get worse,” “only get worse,” “only get worse,” I offer this instance of bad matters getting better. The U.S. Census Bureau has just released...
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Death of a Generation
By all appearances, gone. I have to believe something will come up from the roots.
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