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Answer to "Is Obama Betraying the Left"

By Joe Wood on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 7:13am |
My view is that we tend to reduce everything down to simple shapes that fit into the holes we simply understand. I can see that we despise censorship, and love justice. I consider that laws broken, and power abused, and crimes of...
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Why I Left the Republican Party: Maybe You Should Too

By Joe Wood on Sat, 05/16/2009 - 1:29am |
Yes, ashamedly I was a devoted, sign-toting, hornswaggling, carpetbagging, hoot-snooted Republican from 2001-2007.  Why?  Don't ask me; I actually voted for Gore. But in the midst of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, I somehow mistook my patriotic support for...
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Why Obama Is Flip-Flopping

By Joe Wood on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 9:40pm |
Many people remember Lincoln as our greatest President; he saved the union, wrote and spoke beautiful and lasting words, and freed the slaves.  What they forget is that before most of that, he made choices that made his enemies, and...
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Why I Left the Catholic Church

By Joe Wood on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 1:28am |
On July 4, 2002, my daughter was born prematurely; premature enough to leave her with severe head bleeds and left her left side to be, to this day, difficient of muscle/motor control.  She wears a leg splint and a hand...
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In Memory of Carl Joseph Hoover-Walker

By Joe Wood on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 2:54am |
Carl Walker-Hoover was only 11 years old when his mother discovered his hanging body at his Massachusetts home on April 6, 2009.   His mother, Sirdeaner L. Walker, said that her son had in the previous weeks and months suffered taunts and...
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Anatomy of a Lay-Off: How It Unfolds from Inside

By Joe Wood on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 7:47am |
I began working for a largely successful furniture store chain, lets call them Bashfully Furniture Homestore, in 2007, hired as the sole company painter for 5 regional store locations.  All of these were approx. 30 miles drive from each other...
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I Have Returned: Sayeth Joe Wood

By Joe Wood on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 6:46am |
Formerly to TPMcafe as Joseph Wood May 13, 2009, 3:27AM Like Lazarus arising from the dead, I have come out from my obscure hole to once again grace your pastures.  How much has changed since we last met.   As...

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