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OCCUPY STRIKE!
Hank Dipped in Honey 5773 Silt pond squatter amid petrified sandstone buttes in hot snow canyon state park north of St. George Utahhhhhh The Occupy movement’s one-year-birthday gathering at Wall Street yesterday featured 180 arrests. Compare that with the Chicago teachers marching recently for days and days–and very few arrests. This is why Occupy needs […]
Footfalls
Upon reading the report, “EX-NFL players face greater risk of ALS, Alzheimer´s.” How they´re four times as likely as other men their age to die of those diseases… http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-nfl-concussions-death-20120906,0,842879.story Well, I played NCAA football, not NFL, which makes it maybe half as dangerous to my health, but this came into my fading brain about playing […]
Reagan Youth: MR. RYAN´S WASHINGTON
After I saw this: “Mr. Ryan was born in 1970…” in the New York Times profile of the Republican V.P. candidate, I thought how baby boomers must be reeling at how young Paul Ryan is. At 42, he´s younger than JFK-who remains forever 47 in our Camelot-arrested minds-and even younger than Barack Obama, who was […]
