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Commentary: All-Star game festivities wake up memories of a childhood spent loving basketball and...

Commentary: All-Star game festivities wake up memories of a childhood spent loving basketball and...

I was molded by the greatest city in America. Circling a model of the city in the Chicago Legends video were …

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Love Our Soldiers, Hate Our Wars - Antiwar.com Blog

Love Our Soldiers, Hate Our Wars - Antiwar.com Blog

In the early 1970s, when the Vietnam War was still raging and I was 16 years old, I attended a Phil Ochs conc…

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Young Chicago Boy Talks to God

Young Chicago Boy Talks to God

On State Street, just past the Wig Center-its window filled with plastic heads of Afros and page boys-I begin…

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Frank - SLAG GLASS CITY

Frank - SLAG GLASS CITY

by Stephen J. Lyons Years ago I lived in Tucson's Skid Row. That is where I met Frank. At the time I drove an…

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Frank - SLAG GLASS CITY

Frank - SLAG GLASS CITY

by Stephen J. Lyons Years ago I lived in Tucson's Skid Row. That is where I met Frank. At the time I drove an…

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Treasures from A Cluttered Midwest Road | The Satirist

Treasures from A Cluttered Midwest Road | The Satirist

By Stephen J. Lyons I found the following untitled poem while picking up trash in the city park near the picn…

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Treasures from A Cluttered Midwest Road | The Satirist

Treasures from A Cluttered Midwest Road | The Satirist

By Stephen J. Lyons I found the following untitled poem while picking up trash in the city park near the picn…

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The Mont-Royal Treatment

The Mont-Royal Treatment

At the POP Montreal headquarters in the heart of Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood, it's easy to get…

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Commentary: Holiday shopping? Bah! I haven't bought a thing.

Commentary: Holiday shopping? Bah! I haven't bought a thing.

The unrelenting onslaught of pre-Christmas ads to pressure me into buying stuff I do not need came weeks befo…

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Commentary: Holiday shopping? Bah! I haven't bought a thing.

Commentary: Holiday shopping? Bah! I haven't bought a thing.

The unrelenting onslaught of pre-Christmas ads to pressure me into buying stuff I do not need came weeks befo…

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Commentary: Holiday shopping? Bah! I haven't bought a thing.

Commentary: Holiday shopping? Bah! I haven't bought a thing.

The unrelenting onslaught of pre-Christmas ads to pressure me into buying stuff I do not need came weeks befo…

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Fear and Loathing in Alaska: Where Men Are Men and the Bears are Scary | The Satirist

Fear and Loathing in Alaska: Where Men Are Men and the Bears are Scary | The Satirist

How the writer did not measure up in rugged Alaska.

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To my absent dad on Father's Day, with love

To my absent dad on Father's Day, with love

When I was in second grade, my father left our family to begin another one with a new wife. For a while my fa…

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To my absent dad on Father's Day, with love

To my absent dad on Father's Day, with love

When I was in second grade, my father left our family to begin another one with a new wife. For a while my fa…

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To my absent dad on Father's Day, with love

To my absent dad on Father's Day, with love

When I was in second grade, my father left our family to begin another one with a new wife. For a while my fa…

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A Case of Le Mal d'Afrique

A Case of Le Mal d'Afrique

In 1990, at the wide-eyed, impressionable age of 18, Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to East Africa. The young col…

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A Case of Le Mal d'Afrique

A Case of Le Mal d'Afrique

In 1990, at the wide-eyed, impressionable age of 18, Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to East Africa. The young col…

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A Case of Le Mal d'Afrique

A Case of Le Mal d'Afrique

In 1990, at the wide-eyed, impressionable age of 18, Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to East Africa. The young col…

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A Case of Le Mal d'Afrique

A Case of Le Mal d'Afrique

In 1990, at the wide-eyed, impressionable age of 18, Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to East Africa. The young col…

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At the Junction

At the Junction

The Ethiopian cabbie's first question to me when I climb into the back seat to head over to Toronto's Junctio…

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Remembering Seymour

Remembering Seymour

It was the first Thanksgiving that Mom was a widow. Instead of the traditional meal of home-cooked turkey and…

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Frank - SLAG GLASS CITY

Frank - SLAG GLASS CITY

by Stephen J. Lyons Years ago I lived in Tucson's Skid Row. That is where I met Frank. At the time I drove an…

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Frank - SLAG GLASS CITY

Frank - SLAG GLASS CITY

by Stephen J. Lyons Years ago I lived in Tucson's Skid Row. That is where I met Frank. At the time I drove an…

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Northern Idaho Without A Clue - The Forge

Northern Idaho Without A Clue - The Forge

Desiccated chicken legs under the chairs. Piles of twisted accordion-shaped pop cans. Coffee can of shotgun s…

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