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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: Trump’s Easter Post. Or Is It?People around the world asked: how could the president of the United States write such a thing? Answer: he didn’t. Trump has employed ghostwriters since 1987 when he published The Art of the Deal, and I’m convinced that this gem of diplomacy belongs to that tradition. Why? Like many sentient people, I found this post shocking,…
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Read More: Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In BlueBob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’ I was layin’ in bed Wondrin’ if she’d changed at all If her hair was still red Her folks they said our lives together Sure was gonna be rough They never did like Mama’s homemade dress Papa’s bank book wasn’t big…
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Read More: Lawyers Guns and MoneySend lawyers guns and money, the shit has hit the fan. My motto as of late. I went home with a waitress the way I always doHow was I to know she was with the russians, too? I was gambling in havana, I took a little riskSend lawyers, guns, and moneyDad, get me out of…
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Read More: Road Trip To Richmond – Or, Ode to Aunt VivianSummer 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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