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BROKEN PROMISES: 100 Years of Republican Campaign Slogans

Posted on June 23, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud   The policies and sloganeering of the current Republican Party are only more extreme versions of party policies and slogans for nearly 100 years. They haven’t been “the party of Lincoln” for at least a century. What … Continue reading →

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Screw Political Correctness – DAESH is Salafi-jihadism

Posted on June 21, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “PC” as a RWNJ / GOP media canard: reactionary language licenses for LIVs in a pluralist democracy President Obama on Tuesday offered one of his longest public explanations yet for why he doesn’t use the phrase “radical Islam” … Continue reading →

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Dark Water Painting

Posted on June 20, 2016 by wordcloud9

Garip Ay is a master of the ephemeral art of EBRU, a traditional Turkish technique for “painting on water”:

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The Coffee Shop – A Noiseless Patient Spider

Posted on June 20, 2016 by wordcloud9

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. —oooOooo– There are several hosts, each host being responsible for picking a “theme of the day” and starting the discussion. But in an open thread, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: SHADOWLIGHT

Posted on June 17, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud Etel Adnan (1925 — ), poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and painter, was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the daughter of  a Greek Christian mother and a Syrian Muslim father. Her languages are  Greek, French, English and Arabic. Much of … Continue reading →

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Public Safety in the post-Pulse era

Posted on June 13, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers    Orlando’s horrific domestic extremist attack demonstrates that with the constant, cyclical negation of private and public rights there cannot be win-win solutions in a modern democracy that has foundationally resisted the notion of a theocratic state. An … Continue reading →

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Orlando Massacre: Pulse One = Stonewall too

Posted on June 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The framing of that meme of “the worst act of mass shooting in US history” comes not only as an “act of terror and an act of hate” but also raises some other peripheral issues in the early … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop – Onbashira Matsuri (御柱祭), “Sacred Pillars Festival” (video)

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From OH! MATSURi, a film about Onbashira Matsuri (御柱祭), i.e., the “Sacred Pillars Festival”:  Every six years for 1,200 years, people in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture risk … Continue reading →

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Cthulhu for President

Posted on June 4, 2016 by wordcloud9

When Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative “Weekly Standard,” said over the weekend that an independent candidate would be entering the race for president, this probably wasn’t what he had in mind. Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro responded to Kristol’s tweet by … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: SYNTHESIS

Posted on June 3, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud The United States is a nation of borrowers. What we borrow is stuff from other cultures: words, food, music, clothing – whatever catches our eyes and ears. Then we put our own spin on it, or combine … Continue reading →

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