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Monday, September 30, 2019

A Double-Dose of Danny

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Sorry, liberals, but Nancy Pelosi’s newly announced impeachment inquiry will not end Donald Trump’s presidency prematurely, no matter how...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Guilty as Charged

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Impeachment is as much a political tool as a legal one. If Democrats feel they need the Ukraine story as a legal hook to start the proces...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Our Neighbors to the North

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The corporate elite are deeply concerned about the rise of socialist politics, whether my election and reelection as a socialist City Cou...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

The Weight

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My old friend rp sent this my way, so now I'm sharing with y'all.  It's amazing. TS
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Justice?

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Dear Yoko Ono, Years, years, and years ago, in 1980, a pathetically deranged man murdered the love of your life. You were w...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

The Professor

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As we move past the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, it helps to be aware of the changes in U.S. political culture that hav...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

On Manson and Didion

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What is clear for Didion is that the gruesome violence of the Tate-LaBianca tragedy denoted the end point of the decade, the wages of a s...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Clarity

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Capitalists seek to maximize profits and reduce the cost of labor. This sums up capitalism at its core. It is defined by these immutable ...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Either/Or

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Criticizing the media has become a sensitive issue for many on the left in the age of Trump. With an authoritarian president in office wh...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Fifty Years Ago, They Said No

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Fifty years ago this fall, a campus upsurge turned opposition to the Vietnam War into a genuine mass movement. On October 15, 1969, sev...
Monday, August 19, 2019

Of Interest

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Ontology is important. We need to define what is right-wing and what is populist. Some of the appeal of Trump, of Nigel Farage, the leade...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

The Original Rules of College Foot Ball

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On Nov. 6, 1869, the first-ever college football game was played between the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) and Rutg...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Leary

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This turned up in my inbox this morning, with a request to get it into the hands of an important third party. I've never paid much at...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Sweet Writing

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+ Many of the liberals talking the loudest about “white supremacy” on MSDNC have only known its privileges, thus they would have us belie...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Send Her Back

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(click on image to enlarge) TS
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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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