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Rafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running east of Crystal River, Florida, which neither school busses nor the U.S. Postal Service dare to assay. Sharing a house of his own design with Spanky the cat, Darla a pit bull, and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, working for peace, and gazing at the sky."

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Central High School of Philadelphia, University of Maryland, Syracuse University, University of Maine, Ursinus College, Air Force Intelligence (Washington D.C., Germany), Ford Motor Company, Philco-Ford Corporation, Eighth Day Gallery, Phi Kappa Phi, Romey Everdell Award for Journalism,(1988), Hole in one (1998), and struggling to find America ever since 2000.

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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 24, 2009
A Toxic Plan for Toxic Waste? The "Public Private Investment Program" works like this: The Treasury provides capital for new investment funds, matched with investments from private investors such as hedge funds. The funds can magnify their returns--and scale of borrowing--by borrowing money from the FDIC and Federal Reserve. Do you think this is a good idea?
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 19, 2009
Terrorist Threat Revealed! The Associated Press reports that burgeoning numbers of the homeless are now seeking shelter from the dark and the cold in the nation's airports. And what does our government say about this? Hey, they may be terrorists disguised as homeless!
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 16, 2009
Treachery and the Stages of Reaction Most moral and intelligent Americans comprehend that our country has been victimized by treacherous masters for most of the past decade. What we have not come to grips with is what we must actually do to stop the treachery and to reinstitute decent governance.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Anger Yes! More Patience No! Peace and Decent Government Now! It is time to stop denigrating anger, but rather to use ut as a force in gaining peace and decent government.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 20, 2009
The Afghanistan Plan
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 19, 2009
It's Bigger than Wall Street, Worse than the Economy, and It Requires Anger Why have we allowed the interests of greed and treachery to usurp our government, beggar our economy, drive us into endless wars and disgrace the image of America around the world? It's time for Americans to get angry and to do something about it.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 18, 2009
Shush, You Cynics! The mantra was "Change!" Once again, the more things change, the more they seem to remain the same.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 2, 2009
Countervailing Power the Only Solution (note to an activist) The incumbent treachery will not be displaced by any amount of moral suasion. Our only chance for peace and decent governance is countervailing power.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 27, 2008
It's the WAR, Stupid News of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has virtually disappeared from the media. But the war goes on, and we ignore it at our peril.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 25, 2008
So Caroline Wants to be Senator Kennedy... Caroline wants to become Senator Kennedy, and too many respond with "That's nice." But it isn't nice. What it is, of course, is oligarchy.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 18, 2008
Kudos to the Shoe Launcher It is amazing how many Americans criticize the action of the Muslim who threw his shoes at the personification of lying treachery when we should in fact commend him for displaying courage literally to the face of slaughterous power.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Mystery of the Obtuse Electorate Why do Americans sit on our hands as our chosen political champions continue to fund today's Viet Nam in the Middle East, to shred our Constitution, to gift our treasure on the one hand to the Wall Street millionaires gang, while refusing two percent of that swag to the auto industry to avert multiple millions of jobs to be lost, etc, etc?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Democrats in Full Farce Mode re Auto Bailout The Democrats hid out when $700 Billion were gifted to Wall Street, but are in high dudgeon over $15 Billion for the auto industry. They now choose to posture as the people's auditor, regardless of the potential loss of millions of jobs and devastation to the national economy.
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Mr. President Elect: Change Has Always Meant Something Different Barack Obama campaigned under the mantra of CHANGE. Having awaited all too patiently for the specifics, we now get temporization and the appointment of war supporters to his cabinet.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 27, 2008
We Must Raise Our Voices for Our Country's Redemption The Obama people have shown no evidence of eagerness to address the American treachery of the past eight years. It now falls to the citizens to raise our voices if our country is to regain the respect of the decent peoples of the world.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 22, 2008
REALLY Support Our Troops The lies continue virtually unchallenged as the treachery in the foreign deserts endure. It is high time for the citizens to stop both.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Make Sure America Gets the Correct "Change," Mr. President-Elect President-Elect Obama's campaign featured the "Change" mantra and little in the way of specifics. His early appointments leave us wondering if America will indeed get the correct change.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The Bailout Moralities Other than knowing it is our money that will be given away, we don't know how the bailouts were sized, how much and to whom they will be distributed, upon what justification, what we will get in return, and when or even if we will get repaid. We should know.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 9, 2008
Messiah, Lesser-Devil, or Desperately Needed Champion? What can one make of the American political process and how we choose who will be the most powerful person in the world?
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 5, 2008
America's Morning After: Time for Specifics President-Elect Obama's campaign was cautiously crafted to the need for "change," a compelling however vague proposition. The electorate now deserves more details.

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