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    Republicans Against the Right to Vote

    By Doctor Cleveland on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 1:44pm | Politics, Social Justice, Personal

    The first time I went to the polls on Election Day I was probably five, tagging along beside my mother. It was a brilliant November day in New Hampshire, and the polls were in a spare room of the town hall, the same room where I would go in later years for Cub Scout meetings and later still walk through on the way to help stock our town's tiny food assistance pantry. There was a larger room upstairs, where the annual Town Meeting was held and where I would someday go for Halloween parties and the soap box derby.

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    You Can't Sell Your Soul If the Devil Ain't Buying

    By Doctor Cleveland on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 8:25pm | Politics

    The election is the day after tomorrow, and I'm basically done looking at predictions of the results. Foreknowledge is the beginning of folly, and no matter how the day goes I'm going to do the same thing on Tuesday and after Tuesday. Win or lose, you keep your eyes on the prize.

    But there's one thing just about every prognosticator agrees on: Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) is toast.

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    Harassing the Professor

    By Doctor Cleveland on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 6:35pm | Social Justice, Personal

    The University of Venus blog at Inside Higher Ed recently posted a personal reflection by a non-white female professor who has felt sexually harassed by one of her male undergraduates. This is at once shocking and entirely unsurprising.

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    Rally to Restore Sanity - NYC

    By Michael Wolraich on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 3:49pm | Politics

    Saturday, October 30, 2010 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    The Village Lantern, 167 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan), New York City

    For New Yorkers who can't get to Washington DC for Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and Stephen Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive, you can still show your solidarity for the cause at the Village Lantern in Manhattan, sponsored by dagblog.com.

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    William K. Wolfrum's Morning: The Era of Capoeira

    By William K. Wolfrum on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 8:18am | Politics, World Affairs

     

    FYI: William K. Wolfrum's mornings will be spent on a beach in Bahia until Nov. 8.

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    A Time of Cholera: Death toll hits 300 as Haiti tries to contain cholera outbreak.

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    The Price

    By William K. Wolfrum on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 12:45pm | Politics

    To the Magnificent People of The United States of America:

    It is with much humility that I offer you these words. But it is, in my opinion, time for a full recognition that the United States has been utterly and completely conquered by Corporate Interests.

    Wars are often re-fought, however, and the time to reengage is upon us. And as the recent past has shown us, the road to winning a war depends mainly on will and the understanding of the battlefield and enemy.

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