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Lyric Novels

All cultural trends cycle through history. Long form works in verse are no exception.They were big in Sumeria: think Gilgamesh. They were big in classical Greece: think Homer. They were big in Elizabethan England: think Shakespeare. And,…
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Confederate Flag Rallies

Wonkblog maps the 173 pro-Confederate Flag rallies that have been held since the June 17, 2015 shooting of nine parishioners by a white supremacist (who has confessed to the crime and its motive) at a historic black church in Charleston,…
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NYC In The Summer

I am in New York City most of this week taking depositions* in a trademark infringement lawsuit. My hotel is in Times Square (7th Avenue and West 51st Street). The depositions are being held at the offices of a law firm at Park Avenue…
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Reality Bites

* The public defender's system in one Georgia judicial circuit was so profoundly broken that one man sat in jail for 110 days for a crime for which he had already been convicted and served his sentence. The officials in charge of…
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Remembering Arne Blomquist

His daughter, Kathy Blomquist, announced that my uncle, Arne Blomquist, died yesterday, an old man, although death always comes too soon.My mother who died of breast cancer shortly after retiring, and my Aunt Kay, who died in middle age of…
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