Spitball Army

Perhaps the highly literate denizens of the area that use Ensley Park would treat it with more respect if they thought that “destroying” it was offensive to the authorities.

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It may never have occurred to many of his critics that Ted Kennedy acted as a mirror, showing them not only the best, but also the worst, in themselves.

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Here are more found things from one corner of one room of my little house. This little batch, like the last two posted, are buttons, proclaiming support for certain “causes.”

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Chris Matthews interviewed Willian Kostric earlier this week, after Kostric appeared at a rally outside President Obama’s Portsmouth, New Hampshire town hall meeting, with a loaded gun strapped to his leg. There is some of Matthews’ typical haranguing of the guest, but also some good back-and-forth between the two men (who seem to exist at the two extreme ends of the political spectrum).

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The Las Vegas Airport terminal is busy. Not overwhelmingly so, but steady streams of travelers are moving in all directions along the walkways. There is no airline representative at our gate but, by simply reading the Arrival/Departure screens banked against the wall, we determine the gate location of our connecting flight. Then, we enter the human flow.

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1984 was a landslide victory year for Ronald Reagan. His Democratic opponent was former Vice-President Walter Mondale. Reagan’s re-election was practically assured as, under his first term watch, the economy showed definite signs of revival. It seemed that there was little for the Democrats to do than go through the motions, and pretend that their candidate stood a chance.

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The 1980 Presidential election took place in the Fall of my Junior year in college. The campus was flooded with propaganda in the form of buttons, pamphlets, stickers, and, of course, a full schedule of lectures and speakers.

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Now ex-Governor Sarah Palin gave her farewell speech to her beloved media yesterday before skipping out on her commitment to the state of Alaska. Conan O’Brien’s special guest William Shatner finds a unique poetic merit to her words.

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Birmingham Magazine’s online music column recently proposed a playlist that would take listeners on a journey through the South. In addition to posting their list, they opened up for reader submissions. I posted one…

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