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I returned recently to reading my favorite author. Here are my current thoughts on him after he died (12 years ago.) ————————…
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I am not involved in the Seattle Schools in any direct way, but as a former public school student and someone concerned…
OK, as I mentioned in my last blog, I've been looking through all these posts I put up on Helium.com about five…
In Spring, 2008 I experimented with writing for Helium.com. The website gets people to write for it by offering to pay them…
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I am a long time reader of Znet; Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky’s ideas, among others, have laid the foundation for much…
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