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A year or more ago I sent an appeal to Patterson’s Vagabonds to debate the idea that America should suspend sending jobs to “Slave Nations” like China, by simply stating that no job should be exported to a country that does not allow collective bargaining. Since not a soul replied, I can only conclude, the…
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OBAMA SHOULD PLANT 20 BILLION TREES FDR in the 1930s employed 3 million Americans between the ages of 18-25 in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and among other good deeds, they planted five billion trees…
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“Some of the essays are the literary equivalent of the Buddhist meditation on the skull, which is meant to use the sense of impending death as an impetus to love the juicy, impermanent life at hand. How fortunate for the reader that life, for this author is music…”
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Poet, Scientist, Educator, Mrya Sklarew: “It is like sitting down with a very intelligent friend and having the kind of conversation you’d always wanted to have.” Read her charming letter here…
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Lovers of the personal essay should be rejoicing in the streets at word of this collection. For readers and acquaintances of Jimmy Patterson, it is long overdue, but the author was born in Washington, D.C., where the machinery of progress is congenitally slow. So this book, in many important ways – is what all satisfying…
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In a previous harangue among our beloved Vagabonds I floated the idea that America should pass a law stating that jobs should not be exported to countries that do not allow Collective Bargaining. I would now like to invite those economic wizards smarter than I am to share their thoughts on such a proposition. Simply…
