It takes a lot to get me to the movies these days.
Something about the production of parking, buying tickets, trying to claim a seat in a Darwinian conquest—one in which the loser is relegated to ...
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American politics is a hoot! Where else can raw ignorance rise to such high places—and then flaunt itself publicly and shamelessly for all to see?
For example, who needs Jay Leno or Conan O’Brien f...
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Scrolling through the channels recently, I noticed that the latest thing in the reality show craze is filth: people can’t seem to get enough of shows about other people’s filthy houses.
There’s “H...
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Dear Mexican: How can a formerly proud Latina like myself feel proud to be Mexican again after my beloved relative was murdered in Mexico by narcos while visiting? I still have love for my heritage...
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Curses, Foiled Again
Two burglary suspects fleeing Sacramento County, Calif., sheriff’s deputies headed for a high school football field, where they ran into players practicing for the upcom...
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“In Minnesota the serious cold arrived/like no cold I’d previously experienced,/an in-your-face honesty to it, a clarity/that always took me by surprise.”
Stephen Dunn starts his poem “The...
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A few weeks ago I was in Mexico, and slept nine nights in my sleeping bag on my friends’ front porch. My sleep was not without middle-of-the-night wakings, but I easily released back into sleep after ...
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