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Category: Current Affairs
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Trump.Not my first choice, let me tell you. If you have your shit together and house in order, whoever occupies the Oval Office will have minimal effect on your day-to-day. If you struggle to put food on the table, Trump will have minimal effect on your day-to-day. We are all plunged into a stupefying alternate…
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Gen X here and I'm not grumpy. I'm happy we're no longer a hot topic of conversation, although I understand many of my compadres are now referred to as sandwiches. The way I see it, there are lots of people older and younger than I am who do a bang up job of chasing after…
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What Edwina did was write a 19th century-style novel praising the CTW and readers never noticed or didn't care. The easily impressed and highly enthusiastic masses cried: This book is amazing! However, when one's main character is emotionally dependent on others, intellectually incurious, and ill-equipped to think critically, we may as well root for the…
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…and therefore Constable Excessive-Force was instructed that teenage girls in bathing suits (neon floral and other such summery motifs) pose a most grievous threat. Why, the concealment of weapons beneath all manner of itsy-bitsy, teeny-weenies is a public safety calamity! The only action available to Constable Excessive-Force, one in which he had intensive training, was…
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April sings us to sleep with her raindrop accompaniment. All is blustery and wild outside while we dream of abundant fields. April laughs at our wistful reverie. She wonders how we could possibly think one day can serve her. One day of remembrance is a mockery. April is budding beauty kept evergreen in poetry and…
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washwithout the waste. Water Swallowed Works The Best. droughtwill notdepart.
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Broken messages have been discovered. They lie in pieces on the closet floor waiting to be recovered. A busted hinge, bloodstains on the carpet, a chalk outline, the town's on fire. Let's put on a good show now that the whole world's watching. Should make us a shoe in for a Lifetime Achievement award.
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Am I bucking trends? Since I've never cottoned to fashion, I can't say for sure. However, this Gen X-er isn't disillusioned, and I decline all invitations to Pity Parties. Perhaps my outlook is due to the fact I can laugh about Social Security benefits going the way of the dodo just as I'll be needing them.…
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10 essays have been submitted and graded by my peers. I’ve had a grand experience reading, writing, and getting to know a few of my classmates during this Coursera adventure. I’m still processing all of the wonderful resources that magically poured forth from my laptop these past several weeks. I know the lessons learned while…
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Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World – Coursera Assignment 10Little Brother The abuse of power as it pertained to an individual’s rights had infiltrated all segments of society, as Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother” showed us. Marcus Yallow and his friends got the attention of the world after the Bay Bridge bombing,…
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