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He tried to remember when he was a baby.  He could only visualize a Polaroid photograph of a party in his stepfather's basement.  There was his mother, all legs in a mini-skirt, his biological father, clueless, and, among an assortment of other mushroom-haired men, his future stepfather licking the edge of a hand-rolled cigarette. Lots of alcohol and joints were in play, and there he was, Paul,

Some thoughts about that: if not in an opera house then here under the girders of a new civilization in which the contemplative norm is that of a cheeseburger with a face full of sesames.  McCheese is one's neighbor and mayor, and his clown same-sex partner is a cook of sorts, and I guess a lot of people go there.  I have to admit I stopped years ago.  The fried fish sandwiches were about all I

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This year’s group of interns, eighteen of them, will be coming from Iowa and across the United States The interns arrive on or about June 8th and they will be finished with the program on August 17th.  Please help find room for one or more interns in your home or with your family or friends. If taking an intern for the

 

A couple of events came together this morning that led to some interesting thoughts on the current financial crisis. Firstly, I heard on the radio that people in the new democracies of eastern Europe are becoming quickly disenchanted with American style free capitalism because what they see is a few individuals getting rich and the rest being left behind. Against the background of this week's

I've been suffering with severe post-election fatigue for the last few weeks, incapable of bearing another moment of Maddow or an extra ounce of Olberman, and spending only a minimum amount of time scanning the headlines. But there is one subject that has been hard to avoid even as background noise: the monetary crisis.

I'm one of those people who could never understand the fascination of the