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Tax Aversion
… he might as well have worn a sign saying Enemy of the Common Man. In the second place, as a hypocrite, Pat fooled … on his taxes, claimed deductions and collected crop subsidies; and yet he couldn’t resist hinting proudly of this … learned that bonds on which the state was paying $265 million per year in principal and interest would soon …
The Golden Sunshine
… species coexisted happily with the rather exotic professionals created by the Rogers Act of 1924. Even the brusque … the measure of an envoy’s loyalty and even capability had become nakedly monetary. Foreign governments, which gauge … of the 1960’s, when numerous politicians found it quite expedient to ornament their front offices with blacks and pander …
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In the Silences Between Caution and Hope
… It’s easy to be cynical about Syria. Westerners have become largely inured to the bad news coming out of the … “I am shaking with joy. I feel a mourning for everyone who died for no reason, but we are finally free.” Since those … shooting at the army, abducting soldiers from the checkpoints, killing, raping, whatever they wanted. I was so …
The Myth of Myth
… really omniscient (there is still nothing easier than to commit a crime and go unpunished), but because the myth of … prudence, to maintain the images of the gods on their pedestals. But Jupiter ceased to be a useful convention from the … impossible. It insures its solidity and its future. Jupiter died from being recognized as fiction because his priests …
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A Cheap Idea
… with William Faulkner? His name is synonymous with complexity. It pervades his style, his storylines, and the … is the case with Sanctuary. It is a much debated and studied book. A story of big-city scandal, it is atypical of … a safe-cracking incident and found him in New Orleans in 1926, dressed to the height of fashion, his tie displaying a …
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Have A Coke and A Bullet
… Instigator. The best way to settle a dispute is: Compromise, Vote, Debate, Lead pipe. I think about my … on the long pavement. Slowly, like young plants, our bodies rotated toward the sun. Sligo and I turned east, toward … God create something then ignore its fate? Was the devil also a part of God? If understanding was freedom, why had it …
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