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Dear editor:
As I write this, the dust of Tuesday’s election has not yet settled. Either our nation’s lurch towards full-blown fascism continues unabated, replete with swastikas and flag-waving, cross-burning white supremacy, and out-in-the-open Christianist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant bigotry. Or perhaps…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/11/05/this-and-that/
This guerrilla endorsement (of an unnamed Arkansas progressive) was submitted the evening of October 1st or 2nd, and published this morning, October 8, in the Sentinel Record. Except for capitalizing “legislature” in the third sentence, they printed it exactly …
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/09/30/weaponized-bibles/
Dear editor:
The year was 1978, it was about 1 a.m. and I was on old Highway 88, taking a shortcut from Highway 70 west to Highway 270 west near Lake Hamilton. I was coming home late from a trip.…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/08/30/really-2/
The Trump analogy
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Here’s a make-believe but often real nightmare scenario: You have just received the terrible and terrifying news, “You have cancer.” After biopsying your mass, your surgeon wants to refer you to a medical oncologist (a…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/08/17/oh-doctor-an-analogy-scorned/
Dear editor,
Time for another letter of random (or not) non-sequiturs…
Like most Americans, you probably think slavery ended with the Civil War. Fact is, especially here in the South, freed slaves often found themselves subjected to conditions of…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/08/12/circular-no-3591/
Dear editor,
One final observation, one final broadside against our balmy Benghazi! bellowers… It is exceedingly curious that they fixate their wrath only upon the 9-11 of 2012, when four white Americans died in the violent anarchy of a civil…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/07/22/which-9-11/
Dear editor:
On September 11, 2012, four Americans died in Benghazi, Libya. Ever since, their fog-of-war deaths have been fodder for a macabre, puppet-theater burlesque of right-wing propaganda. Contrarians may wax poetic with fanciful exaggerations, but the dead did not…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2018/07/04/puppet-theater-burlesque/