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Since 1903, Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus” has been displayed inside the Statue of Liberty. My generation was raised to be proud that our country welcomed tired, poor, huddled masses to our shores. We were required to commit the poem to memory, as a kind of summary of what America meant. In case it
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When rats drop off a sinking ship They don’t think, “This ship is sinking!” That thought would require an Einstein Of what passes for rat thinking. By then, they’re all around the bend, Dumbstruck or homicidal; They’d follow each other over a cliff, Like those Gadarene swine in the Bible. When the flood first showed
Back in the early 1970s, I wrote a talking blues. I had gotten to be a halfway decent picker, and I managed to record the song acceptably, I thought. My old friend Andy Abbott was passing through town, and we sat down with a couple of Manhattans to listen to it: Talking Thomas Edison Back
“Nothing Social Distances Like a Jeep!” (TV Message, 6/6/20) This baby knows nothing at all of shame. If he soils himself, his parent, diaper, bib, Look! New! Excrement added! he proclaims, Proud of the
In times like these in which we are all in it together and <it> is times like these which we are all in we, the international corporate corporation’s propaganda arm wish to extol to you who are all in it together with yourselves how deeply we care about you whom we have terminated in one
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