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POC aren’t the problem for the Homeland’s “war on terror”
By ann summers The problem is as it’s always been – the ethnocentrism of the European colonizers and their American-born descendants, basing their bias on property and power and in the case of recent GOP politics on the fear of … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Crime, Criminal Law
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Word Cloud: SARDONIC
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” “I hate writing, I love having written.” “By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and … Continue reading
Posted in Estate Law, Humor, Literature, Movies, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Martin Luther King Jr, NAACP, Sardonic, The New Yorker
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By Grabthar’s hamster, will no one rid us of this troublesome publicity?
By ann summers (née Puffball Petrovsky) There’s no such thing as a bad persecution for Ted Cruz. As much as one may try any publicity whether organized PR or not, it may have long-lasting intended and unintended consequences. Apparently the Rowan … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity, Christianity, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Democracy
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates
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The Triumph of the Nanny-State: Lock-down those classrooms or I’ll hit you with my heroic lunch-box
By ann summers “We wanted to nip the problem in the bud,” (1990) A Second Grader in Widefield, CO, was subjected to investigation and evaluation after he responded to an assignment as to what he saw in the clouds by … Continue reading
Losing it at the movies is now so much 19th Century Security Theatre
New literal forms of Security Theater make going to the movies so 19th Century where life is a panopti-diorama, old chum. By ann summers From the theatrical large-scale hand-cranked diorama giving urbanized music hall culture new life to the post-WWII … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Capitalism, Celebrity, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Democracy
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How posse comitatus or Commadus’s posse is already here
by ann summers Regardless of the degree of derangement, lone gunmen are always the decentralized form of terror, whether domestic manslaughter or random carnage. The problem despite some neologistic tendencies by the MIC to organize fear or procurement of weapons … Continue reading
“You can deal with it yourself.”
Your friend has been shot in a drive by shooting. You are not a trained medical first responder. What would you do? Most people would do exactly what 17-year-old Esperanza Quintero did last month when her friend Jaydon Chavez-Silver, also … Continue reading
Posted in Law Enforcement, New Mexico, Torts
Tagged Esperanza Quintero, Jaydon Chavez-Silver, Matthew Sanchez
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Justice Antonin Scalia: The Bard of the Bench? (With a Mark Fiore Political Cartoon Video)
By Elaine Magliaro Award-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore said that it only seemed fitting “to use Antonin Scalia’s own words for a poetry slam, since the justice’s snarky dissents are filled with so many poetic gems.” Fiore noted that the … Continue reading
Seattle Public Schools Ban Soda But Supply 11 Year Old Girls With IUD’s
Presently in Washington State, minors may obtain or refuse birth control services at any age without the consent of a parent or guardian but they are prohibited from purchasing soda pop in public schools. Apparently relying on a few studies done … Continue reading
Posted in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Education, Health Care, Legal Analysis, Legal Theory
Tagged Birth Control
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