The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
by Chuck Brown
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It’s one of the reasons why I get upset when flipping through the channels and there’s stuff about pixies and elves on the Sci-Fi Channel as well as UFO’s and ghosts on the Science Channel. It’s another way of bastardizing public thought.

The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
by James Patrick

Est Cormac McCarthy “En attendant Godot”? (Is McCarthy “Waiting for Godot”?)

Dead to Me
by Jason Haber
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If they left it a muddy pit as a statement to the savagery that had taken place that would be honest enough, but now they scheme to install a freedom park , some kind of sterile municipal placeholder, a tombstone as testament to what has been lost.

Will American Students Be The Primary Focus
by Laura Hughes

Will American students continue to be the primary focus, economically, socially and politically in our own country?

Crude Awakening,Oil Crash
by Bob Johns

I left the Potluck and Politics meeting with a cold feeling. Fear for the future.

June 19th: Single-Payer Rallies
by CommonSense2 Editor

Rally For Single-Payer!!

Medical Students: Support Single-Payer Healthcare Reform
by John Morgan

Pennsylvania can be the model for the nation in providing truly universal coverage, enabling Washington to see the concept succeed and then enact a similar system nationwide.

Official Announcement
by CommonSense2 Editor

The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an eagle to a condom because it more accurately reflects the government’s political stance

Disguises, Oops I Mean Decision 2008
by Thomas Reed
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Tom Reed has graced these pages with poetry in the past. Here he weighs in with some Presidential humor.

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
by CommonSense2 Editor
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The final word on the chicken’s street crossing habit

What Will Get You There?
by CommonSense2 Editor

It’s In The Numbers

There’s Something Rotten In Denmark
by Jack Lindeman

If Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most memorable character creations then surely the Prince of Denmark can be regarded as a prime mouthpiece of the author himself.

The Most Terrible Right
by Steven M. Sloan

Steven M. Sloan is a scholar, teacher, and poet who has been widely anthologized, as well as widely published in poetry magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Muffin Man
by Laurence Overmire

Laurence Overmire is an actor, poet, playwright, director, arts educator and genealogist.

Marketing and Research
by Laurence Overmire

Laurence Overmire is an actor, poet, playwright, director, arts educator and genealogist. He has appeared on stage and screen in New York and Hollywood and points in between. His poetry has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad in hundreds of journals, magazines and anthologies, including The American Muse, Over the Back Fence, 12 Gauge Review, Aabye’s Baby, m. e. stubbs poetry journal, Kimera, Adirondack Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly Online, Thorny Locust, The Penwood Review, and Lynx Eye. His book Honor and Remembrance, A Poetic Journey Through American History is available from Indelible Mark Publishing.

CHANGE
by Jack Lindeman

Jack Lindeman is no stranger to the reader’s of CS2. This well-know poet continues to grace are pages.

“See her while you can, she’s disappearing fast.”
by Susan Scholl

“Hey I know you. You’re the poster lady”!

The Politics of Humanitarian Aid
by Walter Brasch

President Bush was justifiably upset. A cyclone four days earlier had destroyed a large portion of Myanmar, and the country s military junta was still refusing humanitarian aid.

What Wright Got Right
by Eric Johnson

However the high visibility of African-Americans in American politics, society and culture has arguably lulled us into a false sense that we have resolved our problems with race and that we have finally achieved a society in which everyone is born with equal opportunities

Can Bill Mackey Topple A Giant?
by CommonSense2 Editor

House Bill 1660 (the Family and Business Health Care Security Act) would reduce businesses’ health care costs to 10% of payroll. Presently, many are paying 20% or more for plans with medical benefits that aren’t as good.

Gays, God, and Government
by Walter Brasch
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The mantra of almost all conservatives-it makes no difference what political party they belong to-is to keep government out of their lives. But, they don’t mind government interference when it plays to their biases and bigotry.

Sludge 101 - Following The Flush
by Darree Sicher
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The sludge industry, that is paid to haul sludge from wastewater treatment plants, has sponsored many name-games
in a marketing effort to promote the reuse of sludge and make it more socially acceptable.