Monthly Archives: June 2010

A new chapter in the personal saga of Steve

I’ve been up here in North Dakota for two-plus years now, and doing OK. I just got my second consecutive first and second-place awards from the North Dakota Newspaper Association Better Newspapers Contest for government reporting and reporting, in the … Continue reading

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Ruminations June, 2010

* Redline on the weird-shit-o-meter. For those of us who expected this administration to be very bad, the actual experience of living in the Age of Obama is… seriously weird. Forget partisan politics. Even if you’re a freakin’ Democrat if … Continue reading

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The Nazi Slur

Note: A slightly different veriosn of this appeared as an article in The Dakota Beacon May issue. They’re at it again, the Nazi hunters. And this time they’ve found the state of Arizona. Not Nazis living in Arizona, the whole … Continue reading

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Ding-dong the witch is dead

Well she’s gone now. Helen Thomas has “retired” after her too-public remarks that the Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and return to the countries their grandparents escaped from. Cautious columnists wonder whether or not the Hearst chain … Continue reading

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No, I’m not Jewish

I experienced an interesting piece of synchronicity this morning as I was mulling over the news of the Peace Flotilla to Gaza. I came across this hilarious parody produced in Israel, “We Con the World.” It was evidently put together, … Continue reading

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Meditations on beauty

The Village Voice, and a whole bunch of other news sources, are carrying the the story of Debrahlee Lorenzana, a 33-year-old single mom in New York who claims she was fired for her looks. Do go to the Voice, if … Continue reading

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