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• Last Thoughts on a Long Election

  November 2, 2008

  •     Voting begins in less than 36 hours.  So much has been written about this campaign that it’s pointless to try to rehash it all.  In the last

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• Annie Hall and My Current State of Mind

  November 2, 2008

  •     I’m working on a new short story.  About halfway through, my brain stopped coming up with witty dialogue.  This happens from time to time an

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• An Old Man Stood at a Podium

  October 20, 2008

  • An old man stood at a podium.  Before him stretched an empty high school auditorium that hours before had been full of peopl

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• The Road Gets Lower

  October 16, 2008

  • I don’t feel bad for John McCain anymore. Now I feel angry.

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• What's Enough?

  October 15, 2008

  • Settling can be a dangerous thing.  Being comfortable can be soul-threateningly. And ego can get in the way of it all.

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• The Low Road

  October 8, 2008

  • I felt bad for John McCain tonight.  Not so bad that I would ever consider voting for him but bad nonetheless.  He looked far less like a life-long p

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• Remembering The Garden State

  October 7, 2008

  • For no reason at all, I found myself thinking about New Jersey tonight.  When you find a home, no matter where it is or what stigma it comes with, it is not often

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• The Politics of Loneliness

  October 5, 2008

  • This is both an excellent and a miserable time to be alone.  Excellent because there is no need to censor opinions or be politically correct.  Mise

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• May You Live In Interesting Times

  September 30, 2008

  • There is not an agreed consensus where this phrase comes from. Popular opinion says that its either a Chinese proverb or curse.

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• Shooting Equality in the Foot

  September 19, 2008

  • I hate that I am forced to write about Sarah Palin.

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• How Can You Be “Anti-Contraception”

  September 1, 2008

  • I don’t believe in “family values.” For as long as there has been a twenty-four hour news cycle, there has been a vocal contingent on the Right that

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• The Good Old Days of Nuclear War

  August 15, 2008

  • The Day After was on the Sci-Fi channel tonight.

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• The Russian/Georgian Conflict and the Neo-Con Lust for War

  August 11, 2008

  • As I write this, tanks are rolling into Georgia from the North and people are dying.

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• My New Philosophy is Called Neo-Classical Existential Realism

  May 5, 2008

  •             I have a new philosophy.  I made sure to give it a bunch of names so it sounds as serious and intellectual as I know it is.
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• Dinner for One

  May 3, 2008

  • Making a half cup of rice is a depressing endeavor. Cutting the chicken into two-inch strips, adding the seasoning and watching it sizzle on the stove.

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