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• Dancing

  

  An artist is never really gone. I have been listening to Leonard Cohen’s posthumous Thanks for the Dance. Haunting in the way of Bowie’s Blackstar, there’s a... Read more

  The 14 January 2020 by   Steveawiggins
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• Atlas

  

  The other day I had a hankering for Religion Index One. I don’t think it exists anymore, at least not in the format I once knew it. RI1 was a print volume... Read more

  The 13 January 2020 by   Steveawiggins
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• Smelling Winter

  

  We’re experiencing the January thaw around here. This isn’t a scientific thing, of course, and it doesn’t happen every year. We had snow before Christmas, but i... Read more

  The 12 January 2020 by   Steveawiggins
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• “People of Color” Versus “colored People” — Call in the Language Police

  

  A recent local newspaper story* reports a Schenectady council meeting, where one member touted the election of a nonwhite council president, rejoicing in the... Read more

  The 11 January 2020 by   Fsrcoin
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• Geocheating

  

  So, we geocache. Not as much as we used to, but over 15 years ago my family and I began the sport and really got into it for a while. Read more

  The 11 January 2020 by   Steveawiggins
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• Steyer Moves Up In South Carolina And Nevada Polls

  

  The chart above reflects the results of a new Fox News Poll -- done between January 5th and 8th of a sample of 808 South Carolina Democratic primary voters, wit... Read more

  The 11 January 2020 by   Jobsanger
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• Unemployment Rate Remained Steady At 3.5% For December

  

  The Labor Department released its statistics for the month of December. About 145,000 new jobs were created in the month. That was not quite enough to cover... Read more

  The 11 January 2020 by   Jobsanger
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• Celebrate The Suffragette Heroes In This Centennial Year

  

  (This photo, found at truthout.org, is of a Suffragette Parade In Now York City on May 4, 1912.) When our nation was founded in 1787, only men with property wer... Read more

  The 11 January 2020 by   Jobsanger
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• Strange Powers

  

  Some books take you to strange places. Not all of them are fiction. I began Nightmares with the Bible as a way of understanding the many, disparate ideas of... Read more

  The 10 January 2020 by   Steveawiggins
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• Biden, Warren, & Sanders Still Leading The Democratic Field

  

  The charts above reflect the results of the latest Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between January 5th and 7th of 578 registered voters nationwide who say they... Read more

  The 10 January 2020 by   Jobsanger
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