CommonSense2 – Jan. 2012 – Issue # 47
Happy New Year, friends and foes. Welcome to this, our 47th issue. We started CS2 four years ago in an effort to inject meaningful discussion into our politics. In the…
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The Bride of Old Frankenstein
Capitalism’s Wedded Bliss of Profit and Exploitation Two years ago, at the age of 77, my mother had totally unnecessary knee replacement surgery. Until the time mom called me…
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Greens Applaud Abu-Jamal Decision
The Green Party considers the lifting of any death sentence as a step forward.
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One Jew’s Christmas
When confronted by facts, these fundamentalists point out that the Puritans, the ones who fled England for religious freedom,
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Blue
Blue is my favorite color True is my favorite word Mankind is my brother Faith is my sword Blue is cool Blue is true Blue is a swing set I…
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WITHOUT HATRED
Virginia Woolf was not above envying those writers whose work she held in esteem and whose lives were somewhat less respectable than her own.
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Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
The thing that I admired most about Hitchens is the thing that irritated many people about him—he would not follow the party line.
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CHAOS AND THE COMMON MAN
Drinking morning coffee. Out my front window I watch a man standing in the rain— stolidly cleaning rainwater off his car’s windshield. Stoically he disregards the weather as traffic flows…
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SCENIC
While the wind grows bold I try to imagine myself shivering in some other place I have not gone to yet ***************
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