When Madmen Reign

Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on September 30th, 2008 @ 08:47:48 am , using 159 words
Category: Repetitions

George H.W. Bush warned us about “voodoo economics” in 1980, but the ideologues clamped a gag on him and put him on the Gipper’s ticket. For much of the time since then, the madmen of the right have carried the day. They were freed of their remaining few… more »
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The Not Talking Thing (with footnote)

Posted by: Steve Belasco
Published on September 29th, 2008 @ 11:23:46 pm , using 1205 words
Category: Commentary

“Here is Ahmadinenene [mispronunciation], Ahmadinejad, who is, Ahmadinejad, who is now in New York, talking about the extermination of the State of Israel, of wiping Israel off the map, and we're going to sit down, without precondition, across the table,… more »
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They Made Their Bed ...

Posted by: Bill Dodd
Published on September 23rd, 2008 @ 08:51:39 am , using 119 words
Category: Commentary

It occurs to me, that since Wall St. made its own bed of doomed mortgage loans, they should now be allowed to sleep in it. Instead of bailing them out, why doesn’t, say, Congress give the 700B or so dollars to the Federal Reserve and let them apportio… more »
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Change & Continuity along U.S.-Mexican Border after NAFTA

Posted by: David Stea
Published on September 17th, 2008 @ 03:29:31 pm , using 494 words
Category: Commentary, Repetitions

(The following is excerpted from Change & Continuity along U.S.-Mexican Border after NAFTA by David Stea, Melissa Gray, and Jamie Zech) Both the Border Industrialization Program and NAFTA (but much more directly the former) have been major agents… more »
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Open Letter to Obama

Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on September 14th, 2008 @ 02:49:05 pm , using 906 words
Category: Commentary, Repetitions

Many friends have suggested a reprinting of this letter to Obama which appeared in The Nation magazine in August. I hope it will charge those of you who read it to make comments and bring into the discussion some of your own thoughts about these subjects… more »
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WRONG WOMAN, WRONG MESSAGE

Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on September 14th, 2008 @ 01:48:33 pm , using 111 words
Category: Repetitions

Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cos… more »
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Sarah Palin's World View

Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on September 13th, 2008 @ 08:59:00 am , using 122 words
Category: Repetitions

It was bad enough that Ms. Palin’s performance in the first televised interviews she has done since she joined the Republican ticket was so visibly scripted and lacking in awareness. What made it so much worse is the strategy for which the Republican… more »
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Ban Ki-moon Blows the Whistle on Violence Against Women

Posted by: Lucina Kathmann
Published on September 10th, 2008 @ 02:51:44 pm , using 375 words
Category: Commentary

This article was originally written by Lucina Kathmann on February 25, 2008, in New York. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was on hand today to address the opening meeting of the 52nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. He… more »
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The Proud To Be An American Flag Lapel Pin Thing

Posted by: Steve Belasco
Published on September 8th, 2008 @ 09:53:46 pm , using 1410 words
Category: Commentary

I regret not investing heavily in patriotic automobile paraphernalia after 9/11. Someone made a killing and it pains me to consider that it could have been me. From bumper stickers to magnetized rubber ribbon loops to attachable little flags to window… more »
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La Plata County to consider re-opening Idaho Mine

Posted by: Stace Johnson
Published on September 7th, 2008 @ 12:57:57 pm , using 183 words
Category: Poetry, Commentary

I read on the 9News.com website today that La Plata County is considering allowing Wildcat Mining Corporation to re-open the Idaho Mine. This really pushes my buttons. La Plata Canyon is my favorite spot on the planet, and when I imagine it lined wit… more »
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Prose Poems for a New Day

Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on September 6th, 2008 @ 09:32:47 pm , using 887 words
Category: Poetry

Bill Pearlman's "Prose Poems for A New Day" are a homage to the return of a poetic turn of mind in Rough Road Review's commitment to verse that hangs out at the edge of the world... Forge freedoms willingness to respond in all its decadent mir… more »
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Carbon Black

Posted by: Bill Dodd
Published on September 6th, 2008 @ 09:23:13 pm , using 520 words
Category: Poetry

for Joe & Tommy America keeps on slippin’, slippin’ into the future True or False (Chomsky—I paraphrase ‘I’m optimistic With all due respect, no reason for it (that (as those… more »
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Five Minutes to Midnight

Posted by: Leonard "Red" Bird
Published on September 6th, 2008 @ 09:08:37 pm , using 472 words
Category: Commentary

Nuclear-armed Pakistan should jar us awake. But Pakistan in crisis is just one of the potential horrors yoked to nuclear proliferation. Where are the media on this crucial issue? To whom do we listen in confusing times? What credible voices speak unva… more »
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Of Gin and Tonic

Posted by: Geoffrey Young
Published on September 6th, 2008 @ 08:56:41 pm , using 565 words
Category: Poetry

Let each gear-head cruise Love’s website on a Harley to sample middle class access to transgressive skin but give me a backyard chair and a tall gin and tonic. Do you sense the residual hiss of hot tears in a thermos? Baby, I’m not… more »
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The Experience Thing

Posted by: Steve Belasco
Published on September 5th, 2008 @ 10:35:37 am , using 1651 words
Category: Commentary

My favorite part of the Republican National Convention was when Huckabee said he was sick and tired of hearing about lack of experience. I wanted to jump up on the stage and say: Whoa, Mike, who made experience an issue? You guys did. John McCain did… more »
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"Drill, baby, drill"

Posted by: Stace Johnson
Published on September 4th, 2008 @ 12:42:05 pm , using 151 words
Category: Commentary

From Mike Littwin's article today in the Rocky Mountain News, where he's quoting Sarah Palin: "What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer, the answer is to make government bigge… more »
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McCain, Palin, Teen Pregnancy

Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on September 3rd, 2008 @ 09:18:26 am , using 96 words
Category: Repetitions

"About one-third of girls in the United States get pregnant before age 20." More than 80% of births in this group "were unintended, meaning they occurred sooner than desired or were not wanted at any time", the CDC said. So does abstinence work? N… more »
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The Honor Thing

Posted by: Steve Belasco
Published on September 2nd, 2008 @ 08:31:56 pm , using 2946 words
Category: Commentary

I’m voting for Obama. I want a President capable of speaking and thinking above the fourth grade level. W. was promoted as the guy you could share a beer with. He has turned out to be dumb as a brick and incapable of intelligible speech. When we foun… more »
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Daze of Alaska

Posted by: Bill Dodd
Published on September 2nd, 2008 @ 03:31:59 pm , using 753 words
Category: Commentary

Moose meat is a good meat; esp. when it’s well-prepared, although dressing the bony creature’s no mean feat; esp. when there’re still black flies and heat—T. Roosevelt I know there are some who say most Alaskans are basically the dullest, even a seem… more »
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Palin and the Dems

Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on September 2nd, 2008 @ 09:45:35 am , using 230 words
Category: Commentary

Was actually pretty charged up after Democratic Convention and Obama’s acceptance speech; it felt full of possibility to me, a return to sanity in politics after these dismal Bush years. But then immediately McCain nominates this unknown woman Palin, and… more »
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Welcome to the Re-visioned RRR

Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on September 1st, 2008 @ 07:44:32 am , using 219 words
Category: Commentary

I just want to say to all the visitors, new and old that we are up and running and you can greet this era of our rough and tumble world with ideas and signs that will perhaps make some sense of all we are processing. It's been a tough slog, kudos to Stac… more »
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