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Daily Archives: April 28, 2009
“The Creative Writer”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
Outside your garret, voices. And you might use them. But you prefer the inner mausoleum of desk drawers and the burial shawls of clean white paper. It’s a cover, you say, for you really are the bee which through the … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, creative writing, imagination, literature, mfa, poems, poetry, psychology, writing
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Arlen Specter: Yellow Canary in the Republican Coal Mine?
If Republicans can’t hold their moderates, how will they win elections? Today, in the New York Times, is an article on Republicans’ larger problem: not just losing a moderate like Arlen Specter, but the party’s increased ideological marginalization (such as on issues like gay equality). … Continue reading
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Tagged arlen specter, conservative, Hugh Hewitt, moderate, Pennsylvania, Politics, Republican, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity
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Swine Flu and Albert Camus: What You Should Do to Protect Not Just Yourself, But Others
Obsidian Wings recently invited a guest blog post on swine flu, co-written by an immunologist and bioethicist. The advice that they offered on swine flu amounted to a list of Albert Camus-like existential responsibilities that we have to one another in … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, apocalypse, Camus, end of the world, existentialism, flu, pandemic, philosophy, religion, swine flu, The Plague
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A Small Bit of Swine Flu Good News: Some Hospitals in Mexico Are Seeing a Decline of Reported Cases from Their Peaks
So says AP: Amid the alarm, there was a spot of good news. The number of new cases reported by Mexico‘s largest government hospitals has been declining the past three days, Cordova said, from 141 on Saturday to 119 on … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, existentialism, flu, flu season, plague, swine flu
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Prometheus Unbound 