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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.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 5, 2008 Dems Campaign for Their Own Betrayers
It is the Democrats that endorsed Bushco's War of Lies and now gift Wall Street with $700 Billion of our treasure. Why do we continue to trust them to oppose treachery?
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 21, 2008 Bailing-out AIG, et al: What's the Problem?
There needs to be no further problem with this sorry business if only the "oppositon" Democrats would for once muster the integrity and political courage to disallow it.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 13, 2008 What I Expect
Hilton Obenzinger recently asked on these pages: "November 5th, 2008, What do you expect?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 23, 2008 Joe Biden and Political Expediency
In October, 2002, the majority- Democrat Senate gifted Bush the sword of war, a vote that Senator Biden joined in and for which he cannot be excused.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 15, 2008 The Death Rales of Democracy?
The electorate needs to wake up and respond to totalitarianism knocking on America's door and threatening to bash it down.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 9, 2008 Protest Votes and Protest Zones
We need to ask ourselves if protest votes and protest devices serve any purpose beyond insulating the abusers from the abused.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 8, 2008 Democrat Betrayal Redux?
After the betrayal of our votes in 2006 to stop the War of Lies and to clean up for the return to decent governance, how confident can we be that our votes for Democrats in 2008 will not result in more of the same?
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 2, 2008 Reality Tale
The bizarre realities of today's America are often difficult to discern from the fantastic and the treacherous. It is to the innocent, not so much a matter of conscience as of consciousness.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 19, 2008 Monster of the Century Contest
The important issue of just who is responsible for the oil-grubbing slaughter and the trashing of our Constitution still requires clarification. Here you will have a vote that can help to clear up this matter conclusively.
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Must Not Waste Kucinich' Courage
If we do not move quickly and in stout numbers to support Congressman Kucinich' Article of Impeachment, they will adroitly be put aside by the forces of treachery and cowardice, and his courage will have be wasted, and so will America
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 6, 2008 The Incident
The citizens need to be aware of and prevent the possibility of an incident to be manufacted to deny us the election of a new goverment in November, 2008.
SHARE Sunday, January 27, 2008 Primary Fiasco
Awakening the interest and the intelligence of the electorate appears to be a bigger challenge than many of us ever imagined. One seriously now wonders about "God smiled when he made America," and is more cogently reminded that "A people has the government it deserves," and if indeed there is truth in the latter, then heaven help this republic.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 18, 2007 Confessions of an Activist
A.E. Houseman said, "I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made." But it gets worse yet when we are described by partisan critics -- and beleived by their audiences to be -- the very monsters we despise.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 22, 2007 america is gone
America's flaunted traditional image and the current political reality juxtaposed.
SHARE Saturday, July 7, 2007 Peace and Universal Healthcae Unrealistic
Politicians from both of America's major political parties need a healthy dose of integrity and courage to handle the issue of Peace straightforwardly, and then indeed "move forward" (to quote a famous ... uh ...uh ...American) to a solution to Medical Care for our people.