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Archive for April, 2008

It was Super Bowl Sunday, and the game had ended. The roads were messy with post-game pandemonium; slipshod stop & go traffic; drunken football junkies and gamblers, either pissed or thrilled about the outcome. Careless cars accelerated through yellow lights; stop signs were treated as suggestions. A tinted Hummer rumbled over the edge of [...]

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A few years ago, Phil Donahue changed my thinking.
As a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, he played the patriotism card to argue against the war.
This was a first, for me: antiwar rhetoric with a pro-American slant. Usually nationalism gets invoked to amplify the battle cry, not silence it, and those wishing to incite [...]

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