policy, politics, poetry, and pop culture

I Believe in Yesterday

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There is art and architecture that can’t be duplicated. And as we’ve seen before there are movies that no one should try to duplicate. It’s’ blasphemy to redo the coming of age chic flick Dirty Dancing, the movie in which a privileged girl develops a political mindset different than the …

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Another Saturday Night

It was early evening. The free parking hour had arrived, increasing the popularity of the meter spaces — making grabbing one a challenge. We were up to it, won a parking space, and started our evening. Flanked by parking meters the sidewalk, a solar furnace in August, was punishingly hot …

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I Hate To Say I Told You So…..

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….. But I love to think it. In June of 2010 at the end of one of my have read (seen, listened to, and will miss) Friday segments I wrote… “Larry King has never been a draw for me, but if Piers Morgan replaces him I will miss Larry just …

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Ain’t No Cure For the Summertime Blues

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Or maybe there is. You Tube vid [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Rehab or the Slab

Russell Brand has a point in saying it’s time the media and the public change the way addiction is perceived “not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill” . The music industry ought to work on that perception as well. Giving 3 Grammy awards …

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First Class Badass?

If I read one more post stating that Murdoch’s wife is a badass I’m going to scream. Iron Man is a badass. The Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu characters in Kill Bill are bad asses. The Trưng Sisters were, and Navy Seals are, bad asses. Mrs Murdoch is a smart …

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