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  1. 7 hours ago

    Why did police officer target Sandra Bland initially by pulling up close behind her & forcing her to change lanes?

    This analysis of Sandra Bland’s arrest by is about the best I’ve read thus far. It is a national scandal.
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  2. 7 hours ago

    Sorry to have missed this memorable occasion.

    Fierce, delightful readings tonight: poetry by , & an essay by Jamaica Kincaid. NYS
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  3. 14 hours ago

    If it is possible to be a sharp-eyed romantic, a lyricist of realism, that is the essence of Edgar Doctorow.

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    14 hours ago

    Chabon on Doctorow

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    14 hours ago

    He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him: liked it not, and died. Henry Wotton (found in Vikram Seth's "Two Lives")

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    Jul 19

    Some of the best cast money can't buy. The Wire family gathers in Bmore, for a post Freddie-Gray benefit.

    8:04 AM - 19 Jul 2015 · Details
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  7. 18 hours ago

    Hope we make it through the (decaying, disintegrating) Holland Tunnel tomorrow before "infrastructure" meltdown.

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  8. 18 hours ago

    Very funny, Ayelet! But I think the lacrosse team was exonerated & the crusading DA accused of misconduct.

    Returned to home town in NJ. On Main street a store called "The Lacrosse Shop." Looking but haven't yet found "Ye Olde Rape Kit Shoppe."
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  9. 18 hours ago

    Lawyer-friend, white, male, stated his "rights" to police officer in rural NY & was roughly arrested & brought to county jail.

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  10. 18 hours ago

    Repeatedly told by ACLU you should "state your rights" to police officers--but if you do, you may wind up dead.

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    19 hours ago

    That is a handsome portrait of Dr. Oliver Sacks, Billy.

    "The act of , when it goes well, gives me a pleasure, a joy, unlike any other...."
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  12. 19 hours ago

    "Write about what you know" not helpful for journalists, historians, fantasists & metaphysicians. Shakespeare, Milton, Poe paid no heed.

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    22 hours ago

    These deformed daisies from Fukushima are blowing up the internet

    6:08 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details
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    20 hours ago

    E.L. Doctorow's best thoughts on writing, from

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  15. 20 hours ago

    This police officer appears to have been flammable material eager to be struck by any spark into a conflagration. Too typical.

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  16. 20 hours ago

    AZ property owners are guilty until proven innocent because of current civil forfeiture laws
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    22 hours ago

    'A Cloud of Dust' "March" by E. L. Doctorow reviewed by John Updike via . It's his most, "splendid" novel.

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    22 hours ago

    "In the heart of the queen anne's lace, a knot of blood ... the tiny dark red spider sitting ..." --Adrienne Rich

    5:50 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details
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  19. 22 hours ago

    Knew this person when his height measured in pencil on kitchen doorframe was four foot something.

    . displaying a vulgar level of excitement on the red carpet
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  20. 22 hours ago

    New Jersey suburban noir. Deadly.

    Reading Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates. Well, that escalated quickly...
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