…greedy bastards who’ve been screwing everybody over.” “Hey,” Hank added, “if she’s going to pluck those heartstrings, she could give us hillbillies a better reputation while she’s at it.” “You’re…
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…cold nights and warm days and healthy microbes dancing on every leaf to unleash the season’s glorious colors. It’s pure magic – and we’re lucky to have it back. Mom’s…
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…was everything in those books published in the 2020s. Seven years earlier, nothing shook the hubris of their civilization’s sense of infallibility; nothing rattled the archeologists’ assumption that their work…
Read more »…Democratic or Republican regime gets to hand out sweet deals and lucky breaks to their friends, but how we, the people, wrest the state apparatus from the death-grip of the…
Read more »…work for change. Here are seven ways we can connect to the power of removing our consent and cooperation, refusing to go along with injustice, and intervening in the destructive…
Read more »…sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in a whirling circus act. The grandmother placed the infant in his mother’s arms. Both were raw and…
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…wish me luck and speedy full recovery. Everything is going well in the healing department … and I promise to take it easy and fully rest up even as we…
Read more »…ideas, not quite enough planning, some luck, some miracles, and some hasty emergency actions. If we all read our Gene Sharp and heeded his warnings on the importance of adequate…
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…hoax. Farmers know the land. We have a telltale ache that’s tuned to the weather. We endure the usual battery of bad luck, wet seasons, insect swarms, untimely drought, crop…
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…environmentalists’ moaning over the plight of the moose calves (80% of Maine’s moose died this year from blood-sucking tick infestations) is a presage to the hunters’ bad luck next season….
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