For $25,000, Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall has contracted with Tennessee company “FDR Safety,” to assist Alabama in developing a barbaric new protocol – to execute its death row prisoners, whom Alabama treats like human guinea pigs – with nitrogen hypoxia. Paradoxically, FDR Safety specializes...
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The news stories about Jeffrey Epstein conjured up images of a rarified world of jet-setting celebrities. The words used to describe him and his lifestyle — financier, billionaire, private jet, tropical island — are not those we associate with anyone we would meet in real...
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“…what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” —Thomas Jefferson In ancient Rome on January 24 A.D. 41, a group of Praetorian Guards led by Cassius Chaerea came upon...
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But ultimately in society, does this matter? Homogeneity -- from one generation to another --  it matters not, because each generation will naturally expect the next to follow its rules and conventions. Why are the generations so different?  It is due to the biology of behaviour -- we carry our programming and with it the capacity to change. And change we do because we cannot prevent our own constant evolution.
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Amidst a sea of conflicting opinions, let me be the one to review the film, "Joker" for iPinion Syndicate.  I’ve seen it twice within days of each other and it sits deep in my psyche. As a writer, I strive for no unnecessary scenes, no conversation which doesn’t move the story forward. Even in articles, I rely on my editor to pare down the extraneous but I am afforded pages for exposition.  Film is different.  Time is tight in the film world and isn’t afforded the luxury I have to create a believable story.
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The gloves were off at the fourth Democratic Debate held in Westerville, Ohio. CNN's split screen added to the contention as lips pursed and eyes rolled with the one-on-one rebuttals. Somebody was mouth breathing into the mic, which gave it all a seething undertone.
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sitting on stolen land, paying rent to a white man, eating food grown on another continent flown here on a plane fueled by the blood of the earth that gives us life, only to throw the plastic wrapper from your foreign fruit on to the...
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One evening last autumn, with temperatures falling and darkness settling on the landscape, we loaded Elvis and Dolly into our SUV for a drive to the hospital. With the wind whistling smartly through the trees, the red, brown, and yellow leaves were swirling around our...
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I am a fine arts/documentary photographer. My current project, “He Threw the Last Punch Too Hard,” began 10 years ago when I started to photograph my mother, as I was attempting to heal our relationship. I was 9 years old when my mother left my...
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