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Read More: Alice CooperI just won 3rd place in an international writing competition for this piece. Alice Cooper It’s late October, 1973 at about 1:30 in the morning, and Alice Cooper is winding up a set on the Midnight Special. Wolfman Jack is singing their praises and the studio audience is going wild with adoration. There’s my…
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Read More: The RideUpdate: Today, 40 years ago, I woke up in Normal, IL in time to have my first beer and settle down in front of the TV to watch the Challenger launch. I was half way through that beer and 70 seconds into the launch when all Hell broke loose and things were forever changed. January…
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Read More: Road Trip To RichmondSummer 1986 It is Summer of 1986 in Normal, Illinois. Towards the end of the Summer semester. We are living in the white house on College Ave. My roommate is trying to study for a final exam, and I am studying a case of beer and cranking the stereo. He finally has enough and invites…
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Read More: Walter CronkiteWalter Cronkite took off his glasses on July 20, 1969, leaned forward in the CBS newsroom, and went silent on live television as Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, even though more than 600 million people were watching him explain what was happening. For nearly 27 hours, Cronkite had been on air covering the mission.…
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Read More: Joan TrumpauerJoan Trumpauer was born into an all-white world in Arlington, Virginia, in 1941. Her mother descended from slave owners. Her father worked a government job. For the first decade of her life, segregation was simply the way things were. Then, at age 10, a friend dared her to do something simple: walk through a predominantly…
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Read More: Why Trump’s Fearmongering Is Falling Flat With VotersFrom the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/opinion/trump-state-of-the-union-fear.html This is why the Democratic response to Tuesday’s speech, from Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, was in exactly the right key. She summed up this year’s midterm elections in three questions: “Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? Is the president working to keep Americans safe…
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Read More: Hilary Clinton’s Intro.In one of the greatest cases of mistaken identity since Donald Trump thought E. Jean Carroll was Marla Maples, House Republicans sent a subpoena to the wrong First Lady. Instead of Melania Trump, who spent untold hours with the child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, they summoned Hillary Clinton. They’d soon regret it. The former Secretary of…
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Read More: Desert PeteI first heard this song on a cassette tape that my aunt made for my father. The message has stuck with me for almost 50 years. Desert Pete Song by The Kingston Trio ‧ 1963 Lyrics I was travelin’ west a buckskin on my way to a cattle run‘Cross a little cactus desert under a…
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Read More: Trump Falls Into Coma During Screening of Melania’s MovieWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Disaster struck at the White House on Tuesday night when Donald J. Trump fell into what appeared to be an irreversible coma during a screening of the upcoming film “Melania.” Trump was unresponsive seven minutes into the screening despite the First Lady’s attempts to rouse him by repeatedly swatting his right hand.…
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Read More: David Bowie: HeroesA song worth listening to at least once. I, I will be kingAnd you, you will be queenThough nothing will drive them awayWe can beat them, just for one dayWe can be heroes just for one day And you, you can be meanAnd I, I’ll drink all the time‘Cause we’re lovers, and that is a…
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Read More: Nation’s Dogs Call for Noem to be FiredWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a scathing letter to Donald J. Trump, on Thursday the nation’s dogs demanded that Kristi Noem be fired as Secretary of Homeland Security. “We were incredulous that someone as incompetent as Kristi Noem was nominated in the first place,” the canines wrote. “We knew this wouldn’t end well.” “This is not…
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