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A Red and Blue Marriage

The late great Erma Bombeck once said she didn't know...
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THANK YOU/T&T: WHAT’S REAL?

A special thanks to all those who said hello, who...
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Linda (Ronstadt) & Luis (Valdez)

In 1981 Luis Valdez wrote and produced `` Corridos'' at...
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The Reeds' Trip to the...

Ishmael Reed, Carla Blank and Tennessee Reed visited the East...
At a Jason Pinter book-signing.

New Weekly Column on PointsInCase.com

Over the last few months I've been writing humor articles...
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Iconoclastic Obama/Fadin' Palin

To the dolorous strains of Chinua Achebe's classic ''Things Fall...
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Healthy Competition vs. Unhealthy Competition

Up until, I think, the mid-nineteen-sixties, newspapers and magazines often...
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LitQuakin'

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Overheard In the Red Room

"Where else but a library are a building’s entire contents yours for the asking?"

-- Debra Darvick