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Friday, July 31, 2015

Big Game

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There is a consensus. A dickhead from Minnesota killed a big cat in Africa. What a dumb thing to do. TS
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Degrees of Radicalism

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One of the burdens faced by American politicos is sustaining a nostalgic fiction that we’re still living in a golden age of American Exce...

Scorching

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Already. Need a swimming pool.  I'd jump in the river but would rather not risk the water-borne diseases. I should join the #Shell...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Rich Kid

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Mariota's signing bonus was for 16 million. Not bad. TS

Uh...revolution?

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A few weeks back I wrote a piece that was pretty rough on Bernie Sanders. I admit it. I pulled him through the mud by his loafers and sme...

Photo of the Day

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Hangin' around. TS

Medicare

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My dear old mom, born in 1908 and educated through the 5th grade, lived to be 90 with the advantage of Medicare. There is no way in hell...

Essay of the Day

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This is not to say American historical development during the three centuries from John Winthrop to the advent of FDR was sweet innocence...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Video Rally Wed. Night

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"I often make the joke, although it's not such a joke, that if we can spend half of the time in this country talking about why t...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Cosby

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The tide - cultural and perhaps legal - may have finally turned against America's dad and serial rapist Bill Cosby with a devastating ...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

In and Out of Africa

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"I am proud to be the first American president to come to Kenya – and of course I’m the first Kenyan American to be president of the...

Okay...

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Why isn’t this headline news? People take tons of these chemicals everyday thinking they’ve been thoroughly tested and are totally safe. N...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Old Yardley Nailed It

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That was then. This is half a century later. "The Catcher in the Rye" is now, you'll be told just about anywhere you ask, an...

Essay of the Day/Henry Giroux

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Bland’s death over a routine traffic stop is beyond monstrous. It is indicative of a country in which lawlessness is now integral to the p...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Think About It

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As U.S. Congress considers signing the unprecedented nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers announced earlier this mon...
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Terry Simons is the founder of Round Bend Press Books and Round Bend Press Detritus. He has worked as a day laborer, dishwasher, factory drone, community organizer, journalist, media consultant and freelance writer. He attended the University of Oregon and Portland State University, where he read journalism, politics, literature and history. He is the author most recently of "Third and a Mile," a fan's notes about the University of Oregon's football travails, 2010--2017. RBP books are available from Amazon and Lulu. Write to: roundbendpress@yahoo.com
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