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Critical Reform of Public Education

by May 13th, 2011 - Politics » Society »

Through the course of what would be grades 7-9, replace the entire curriculum with math, science, logic, research and writing activities responding to every episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit and the grim meathook reality of The Wire.

East River Wine And Spirits – Breeder Zoning Panic

by April 4th, 2011 - Politics » Society »

East River Wine and Spirits with insidious, corrupting High School in the background. A few blocks from where I live, there had been a storefront available for rent on the northeast corner of 116th and Pleasant Ave. For a year or so, I had had consistent fantasies that it would be turned into an Arby’s […]

A Corner Room in an Open Mind : What When Begin Precedent Again

by September 13th, 2010 - Culture » Society » Creative » Writing »

I’m walking. It’s what I’m propelled to do under such circumstances. Behind me, an old man trips…and falls…and dies. I don’t turn to look, but keep on walking. There is no need to see with my eyes. My very being knows it to be true, even if it hasn’t actually occurred. I am even quite […]

Flirting With Obscenity

by April 7th, 2009 - Culture » Society »

NSFW: NOT SAFE FOR WORK Perhaps not the above video – though probably – but certainly the below links. Tread carefully dear visitor… I have thought dirtier thoughts and imagined things far more offensive, but none have ever made it to mainstream air. That is to say that while a rare bit of playful tongue […]

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