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"I can't make real life as good as television"

By Barth on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 2:50pm |
The woman who wrote and sings these lyrics is not the SUNY/Purchase graduate whose work seems to worm its way into these posts so often, but another graduate of the same school, which either attracts, nurtures or teaches its children...
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Why We Love Rachel

By Barth on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 3:28pm |
not the one in my family, who I truly love but the one on the television machine as she calls it, who I love as much as one can love someone they've never met. She certainly comes in handy when...
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Losing if not Lost

By Barth on Sat, 06/12/2010 - 3:15pm |
Yes, we all had such high hopes coming out of the election two years ago. Some cautioned that we had not really turned a corner; that the successful election of a real Democratic president, for the first time since the...
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D-Day

By Barth on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 10:18pm |
This is a day that has more meaning than many of the artificial holidays we celebrate with such fanfare.This was the day the Allied Expeditionary Forces landed in Europe to liberate it from the greatest tyranny it has known at...
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Echo Chambers and Critical Thought

By Barth on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 5:09pm |
Sometimes, a guy thinks that he has become "Mr. Wilson." Maybe you are not old enough to remember him (though Walter Matthau revived the character in a movie a few years back). He was the Mitchell's next door neighbor and...
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Building on Sacrifice

By Barth on Sat, 05/29/2010 - 4:24pm |
It would have been a great post. It would have asked how it is possible that the President of the United States, a year and a half after replacing one whose vice president held secret meetings with oil executives to...
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Dumb and Dumber

By Barth on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 5:49pm |
More important than Rachel's illustration of just exactly the "libertarian" or anti-government meme goes was her explanation the next night of how this nonsense has been used to defeat progressive initiatives since well before most of us were around. She...
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Why Can't the English

By Barth on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 2:52pm |
It's funny how things stick to you. A ten year old boy goes to see "My Fair Lady" and the little joke in lyrics about "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?" or the even more obviousOh,...
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Fear

By Barth on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 2:44pm |
We all remember these lines spoken by the President who had come to rescue the nation, though most of us were not born then and our parents not yet even 10 years old. the only thing we have to fear...
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Patriots Day Guest Blogger Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Barth on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 5:42pm |
Your blogging fool was born, as mentioned a thousand times before, in Boston, Massachusetts and my first exposure to the history of this country came from people with the same geographic roots. It is, perhaps, slightly different than the...

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