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Flash Fiction Friday: Kyle 3099 (yeah, I know. It’s not Wednesday either.)

Please see the lovely photo which inspired this piece, Kyle 3099 on Genoa Hill From High Plains Hogger on Flicker   The conductor, Kyle 3099 according to his embroidered nametag, slept peacefully on the cabin floor....
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Flash Fiction Friday – 14 Feb 2017

14 February 2017. For Chuck Wendig’s weekly Flash Fiction prompt. My Random Number Generator chose 10. Long way home. April hoisted her lumpy backpack up on her bony shoulders. It should have weighed more. The dehydrated...
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Is it a Muslim ban, or isn’t it?

Let’s go to the who, what, when, where, why and how of the Executive Order (EO). No, I’m not a journalist, but rather a social scientist, which Trump would probably still find Bad. Or Sad....
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Sometimes the path forward is clear

UPDATE: Here’s a petition to tell the media exactly what we want: an end to free publicity for the Big Moron: Petition We need to enlist the media to make an important change. It’s...
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News, fake news, and an uneven spectrum

UPDATES: Two big updates to this story, stronger evidence than I could ever write. First, this graphic showed up a few weeks ago. It’s a clear way to see where the partisan bias actually resides,...
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Never underestimate the power of fear

It took fifteen years, but the terrorists finally won. Never underestimate the power of fear: The Orange Grease Spot strummed it like a guitar. He ramped up the nationalism – not unlike a certain German version...