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Archive: June 2008
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Table of Contents
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Published: June 2008
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Art & Culture
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
2 Comments 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.
Book Reviews
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
Est Cormac McCarthy “En attendant Godot”? (Is McCarthy “Waiting for Godot”?)
Cultural Criticism
Dead to Me
1 Comment 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.
Education
Will American Students Be The Primary Focus
Will American students continue to be the primary focus, economically, socially and politically in our own country?
Film
Crude Awakening,Oil Crash
I left the Potluck and Politics meeting with a cold feeling. Fear for the future.
Health Care: News & Notes
Medical Students: Support Single-Payer Healthcare Reform
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.
Humor
Official Announcement
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
1 Comment 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?
6 Comments The final word on the chicken’s street crossing habit
Literary Criticism
There’s Something Rotten In Denmark
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.
Poetry
The Most Terrible Right
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
Laurence Overmire is an actor, poet, playwright, director, arts educator and genealogist.
Marketing and Research
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
Jack Lindeman is no stranger to the reader’s of CS2. This well-know poet continues to grace are pages.
Political Memorabilia
Politics: National
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid
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
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
Politics: State
Can Bill Mackey Topple A Giant?
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
6 Comments 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.
Sustainable Agriculture
Sludge 101 - Following The Flush
1 Comment 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.
This Issue & Site News Everything CS2 site related: article info, site developments, coming attractions. CommonSense2 June 2008 Issue #10This is our tenth issue, and we're still going strong.
Editorials Opinions, rants, confessions and predictions appear in this monthly commentary. Quotes To PonderQuotes to ponder on a rainy afternoon
To Your Health Ron Stouffer and Rosie Skomitz have been waging battles in the health care wars for 15 years. Check back every month for views, opinions and information vital to you and To Your Health The San Francisco Solution??? 2 CommentsIs the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance just what the doctor ordered?
The Keystone Scorecard Sylvia Baylor chronicles the absurdities of Harrisburg and our State Legislature. Occasionally The Keystone Scorecard will feature guest authors. Believe it or Not!Yogi Berra once said, "If you come to a fork in the road, take it," seems to sum up the situation for the state's transportation funding.
The Road Less Traveled I’ve known Kathleen Welch for 35 years. I’ve learned to respect and admire her resilience and her refusal to buckle under to conventional wisdom. As you get to know her through these columns I’m sure you’ll feel the same. And Now For a Little Angst... 2 Comments I was an incurable space cadet, never willing to be bound in any way. Freedom was the most important quality of life for me. Now, I'm watching my peers retire in comfort from their secure jobs, with secure pensions, and I'm feeling a little green around the gills.
The Dark Visions of Sheldon Kaplan Sheldon Kaplan explores and brings a world into focus that is unseen to most of us IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY OVER CNBC!Ah, CNBC! I haven't watched another NBC program for years, "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE". It's just not as funny as watching these "NOT READY FOR CRASH TIME PLAYERS". It seems that these Corporate Media Shills for the paper asset markets have no limit on their penchant for comedy.
That Woman!! Dorothy Reilly - You may love her, you may hate her, but you’ll never be confused about where That Woman!! stands. Scott McClellan Should Be In Jail 5 CommentsScott McClellan should be in jail with the rest of the Bush Crime Family. If WE knew they were lies way back then, so did he.
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