Eyes are transfixed on the lighted screen, glued to the flashing line that keeps time as reliably as a clock. Blink, blink, goes the cursor against the empty white background. The eyelids never move. Neither do the hands. They hover over the keyboard, motionless. The...
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No nation’s security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors “The Chance for Peace” (16 April 1953) By now, only the truly witless still believe that...
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I wrote this 20 months ago and, after today’s announcement of Sarah Sander’s exit, I thought I’d give her a proper send-off by repeating the column.
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In the book Queer British Art — Alex Farquharson, Director — Tate Britain said,  “In the past few decades LGBTQIA artists have made a prominent contribution to the development of contemporary art, as major collections of contemporary art attest.” Is it important that Queer Art...
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The fabulous Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning associate editor for The Washington Post, said it best, “If Trump doesn’t warrant impeachment, who does?” Exactly. In 1868, the first president to be impeached was Abraham Lincoln’s Veep, Andrew Johnson. Johnson was a morally disgusting man who devised...
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Asking me to pray is like ordering a Big Mac for a vegan or tossing your Tesla keys to an Amish dude.
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He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way...
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I’m sure everybody has seen the video where the duck gets sucked into the glory hole at Lake Berryessa. The video, taken by Solano County Water Agency’s Rick Fowler has gone viral with over 110,000 views and 400 comments on Facebook. YouTube has gone wild...
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