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If you have a high-profile lawyer with powerful friends and you’re tortured while on death row in Alabama, everyone in the nation not only knows about it — overwhelmingly, especially in liberal, progressive, civilized circles of thought and news — they’re righteously appalled. But poor death...
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  To counterbalance the competitive pace of the digital age, and the cacophony of self-help gurus—always more voluble at the start of a new year—urging us to lead “better,” fuller, more productive lives, Alexandra Schwartz, a staff writer for the New Yorker, recently recommended Danish psychologist...
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Those who survived the holocaust never said “heat” when describing what happened in 2049. Instead, they called the aftermath of the apocalypse The New Era. When temperatures on the planet broke 140 F, millions died and civilization descended into chaos. “Hot” and“heat” became terms of...
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Donald Trump bragged, via tweet, that he’s the Ernest Hemingway of Twitter. Unfortunately for us, the new president possesses neither the courage nor the self-control of Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature for writing unforgettably about bravery under fire. As the problems...
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When a zealous public defender acting as the effective lawyer guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment was handcuffed in a Las Vegas courtroom last month for doing her job — pleading for “some leniency” for her indigent client — I wrote in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:...
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In Arizona this past weekend — where temperatures muscled their way to 120 degrees — folks were frying eggs on the sidewalk and baking chocolate chip cookies in cars giving new meaning to the term “outdoor kitchen.” On Monday, where I live in Woodland Hills,...
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Mitt’s “mom jeans” — as they were dubbed by CNN’s Chris Matthews and the L.A. Times’ David Horsey (“Mitt Romney, the man in mom jeans“) — must be riding up uncomfortably high these days. Either that or Donald Trump is literally driving the failed Republican...
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As reported (“Gov. Robert Bentley speaks on Mike Hubbard without mentioning Hubbard,” June 11) by Paul Gattis for Al.com, Alabama Governor Bentley issued a “vaguely-worded” statement this past Saturday morning. Because, indeed, it was so vague, here’s a line by line annotated version to help...
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Late on a Thursday night in Woodland Hills, California, the recessed lights of the Lamborghini store in North Los Angeles spotlight a gaggle of sleek, luxury automobiles. Like carbon fiber and plexiglass statutes standing in relief, their muscled torsos gleaming, they show off their voluptuous...
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