Showing posts with label 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2018. Show all posts
Monday, October 08, 2018

Far from the MAGA crowd: Democrats invite you to Oct. 18 chili cook-off and fundraiser

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These are the times that try men's and women's souls, especially if they have souls. From a press release:  Greetings Fellow De...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

No switcheroo at the polls for this city boy in cowboy country

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Every eight years election cycle, Democrats in Wyoming are faced with a dilemma. For the August primary, should we change our registration ...
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Sunday, August 12, 2018

This Baby Boomer grew up hating Nazis -- and still does

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The Nazis are in D.C. this weekend. Sounds weird, doesn't it -- Nazis in our nation's capital city? Last time we contemplated Nazi...
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Sunday, August 05, 2018

That old guy peeing in the chair still has stories to tell

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The certified nursing assistant (CNA) named Ashley pulls me out of my chair and leads me to the walker so I can get to the handicapped acces...
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Saturday, July 14, 2018

Do odd things happen to writers, or are writers just odd?

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A question for my writer friends: Do odd things happen to you, or are you the odd thing? The answer is important. The world is odd, fil...
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Monday, July 02, 2018

Good books and late-night comedians will not save us from the Trump cult

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It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. They might be Dickens' best opening phrases, this in "The Tale of Two Citi...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Home of the free, land of the brave, and graveyard of forgotten pasts

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Genealogy once was the province of  retirees, Mormons, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Young people didn't care because, w...
Sunday, June 03, 2018

Top three Republican governor candidates want to out-conservative each other

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The three richest Republican gubernatorial candidates seem to think that Wyoming needs rescuing from a cabal of liberals. Did I miss somethi...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Cohort replacement is the only cure for Trumpism

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It's an "age" thing. In September 2016, just weeks before Trump's election, writer Chris Ladd in Forbes foretold the f...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Dear White People: Columbia University wants to know what you think about the issues of the day

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Columbia University's Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) wants to find out what white and partially-wh...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Democrats have to ask themselves: When do we get mean?

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Wyoming Sen./Dr. John Barrasso is a hyper-partisan ass-kisser. We see him looming behind Mitch McConnell every time the Senate Majority Le...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Another generation betrayed by those who should know better

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This Saturday, thousands of young people will stage the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence rally in Washington, D.C. Expecting huge crowd...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

What kind of horse gets depicted in public art -- and who decides?

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Donal O'Toole wrote a fine piece for Studio Wyoming Review  last week. It critiqued the public art on the University of Wyoming campus a...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Drama nerds and debaters seize the day after Florida school shooting

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It seems that arts education can be a wonderful asset in standing up to bullies. That was on display last week at the CNN town hall meetin...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

No more Mr. Nice Guy

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Our young people feel betrayed. Youngsters are getting murdered at a sickening rate. After the Florida high school attack, survivors are...