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Working Class: The Man Who Welded Two Elephants’ Asses

The working class label was everywhere in the 2016 election. Its cachet is likely to fade over time along with Donald Trump’s populist credibility. Before that happens, I want to explore what it means to be working class. It’s not as simple as the pundits, pollsters and political operatives think. Continue reading






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Rescuing Images From Entropy’s Oblivion

The Rescued Film Project struck a chord this week with its video documenting the painstaking process of developing long-forgotten rolls of WWII-vintage film. No one knows the name of the American GI who took the pictures. Others will have to imagine the stories for him.






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Fare Thee Well, Hazel Dickens – Slip Away Like A Bird n Flight

When I heard that Hazel Dickens died today at age 75, I thought immediately of the poetic line in her song, “West Virginia, My Home.” In the dead of the night, in the still and the quiet, I slip away like a bird in flight/Back to those hills, the place that I call home.






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Doing the “Duck and Cover” at Café Mouffe

From a distance of 50 years, I like to remember my childhood as a carefree time filled with daydreams of Brigitte Bardot and Leave It To Beaver. Truthfully, though, it was suffused with paranoia and existential despair. Only later did I learn to relax with help of Dr. Charles Mingus and the power of prayer. Oh Lord Don’t Let them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me.






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In the Wake of Japan’s Earthquake & Tsunami

A ship is washed aground in Kamaishi City, Iwate, by the tsunami which followed the Japanese earthquake Source: Reuters/AJE] AJE Live blog: Japan earthquake | #earthquake






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