Lynching in the 21st Century - a poem

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The Feral Man

Leaving for work each morning, still foggy from too little sleep, I neglect to look over toward the compact patio set laid out near the front door.

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Dad's Family History

My father Elmo toiled over a hot laptop during the past few years, recollecting family legends and collecting and scanning fading photographs.

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The Coming War with China - Part 4 "The Long Duel and a Just (and Lasting?) Peace"

The coming war with China must bear the characteristics we imagined the Third World War to exhibit in terms of economic havoc and uncontrollable human fear and stress.

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The Coming War with China - Part 3 "Isolating the Panda"

Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. - Ancient Chinese Proverb The coming war with China will likely not begin with some overt act requiring an instant and reciprocal response by the United States. China will not suddenly invade Taiwan.

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The Coming War with China - Pt. 2 "The Justifiable Cause"

  Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Tse-tung (1893 - 1976) The world economic crisis features many distinct causes and players bearing their share of the blame.

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The Coming War with China - Part 1 "The Last 100 Years"

        The words of truth are always paradoxical. Lao Tzu – Founder of Taoism   The China we know today comprises the classic riddle wrapped inside an enigma.

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Historians and Idiots - Welcome to Ding-Dong School

A group of highly-qualified historical scholars placed themselves out front last week, inviting the entire nation into their classroom.

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Banks Are People, Too

One of the happy consequences of returning to work after a long spell of unemployment is in having to deal with the first few paychecks. Direct deposit arrangements take a few weeks to kick in, so one has to temporarily transact directly with the bank in one form or another.

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Moments in Crisis Leadership - Obama vs. FDR

 “There are no great men.

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Scorching the Earth in Search of God - Reductionism and Deconstruction in the Higgs Boson Affair

This past April, media outlets were abuzz over a memo leaked from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) administered by CERN in Switzerland. It concerned the detection of a decay pattern analogous to that of the previously undiscovered Higgs Boson.

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The Greatest Conspiracy Theory Ever Spun

Back in March of this year, a minor event was publicized by Paul Sutherland on his astronomy news website Skymania. The story concerned the cutoff from funding by Cardiff University, in Wales, for research being conducted by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe.

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One Good Rose

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No Longer "Under Construction"

New York City, specifically the island of Manhattan, is famously afflicted by a chronic condition known as construction-situs.

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Accountability Blues

Earlier this year, Bernard Madoff, the deposed King of Ponzi, claimed to an interviewer that the banks and hedge funds with which he did business “had to know” something was wrong with the numbers emerging from the Lipstick Building.

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Ten Years Later -The 9/11 Syndrome

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, a majority of American citizens reacted to the attacks, each exhibiting the extremes of his or her personal bend.

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In Praise of Bud Selig's Playoff Scheme

Since his elevation to Commissioner of Major League Baseball as reward (or punishment) for inciting a coup d’état among his fellow franchise owners against then-Commissioner Fay Vincent in 1992, Allan Huber “Bud” Selig has left his mark on the business si …

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Colson Whitehead Revisited

I originally wrote about the novelist Colson Whitehead over a year ago and, for some reason, that essay has been my most popular piece to date.

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The Price to Combat Audaciousness

The 9/11 hijackings, The U.S.S. Cole attack, the Lebanon barracks bombing; these represent instances from recent times when standard preparedness offered little in the way of protection against inspired havoc.

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The Unsettling Nature of Natural Disasters

Events such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have a tendency to fill the human heart with fear and dread. Few populated areas can be said to be safe from some sort of geological or atmospheric threat.

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Waterfalls and Other Feats of Gravity

An audio version of this essay is available here.   I have witnessed the beauty of waterfalls, from dead-ended mountain streams to thunderous Niagara.

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The Concept of Noise

An audio version of this essay is available here. I am, and have always been, a seeker of solitude.

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Breathing Water at Sunrise

From furthest reach, on fair winds blown, come Adam and his careless spawn. The tides bring forth in stinging foam the hope of life, then slip away to search for more, for hope and life live short on land. The hands that pull

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The Everlasting Crush

There's gotta be a record of you someplace You gotta be on somebody's books The lowdown - a picture of your face Your injured looks The sacred and profane The pleasure and the pain Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete

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Everyone is a Critic

The Dark Man lifted his barreled eyes from the page. He spoke through me, to reach an ear yet to open fully. “There is no music in these words.”

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