Last Tuesday, after enduring all of the fallacious bluster I could from the GOP debate in Colorado, I switched over to The World Series, hoping that a little fall baseball could serve as a salve for the aneurysm I could… Read More ›
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The Hazardous Wasteland: East Liverpool, Ohio & The Environmental Disaster That Time Forgot
There is a river that runs by East Liverpool, but you do not swim in it. There are crops that grow from the ground in East Liverpool, but you do not eat them. There are brisk winds that blow the… Read More ›
Fractured Communities: How Fracking Is Widening The Gap Between The Haves & Have-Nots in Rural Ohio
Now’s the time we smile. Well, not just smile. We have to nod too. Smile and nod. Wrinkle our brows and scribble down notes all sharp and hasty so he feels important; so he thinks we’re hanging on his every… Read More ›
An Open Letter to Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley Concerning New Foundations Transitional Living
Mayor Cranley, In your mayoral acceptance speech this past November, you pledged to turn Cincinnati into a more inclusive city; a city where government can find solutions that will bring disparate groups together while building communities that work for everyone. It… Read More ›
Obama May Have Aimed For Greatness, But He’s Hitting Average
On the evening of the New Hampshire Primary in 2008, after he had come in a close second to the woman who would eventually become his 1st Secretary of State, then-Senator Barack Obama addressed a crowd of his supporters in… Read More ›
The Link Between Glaciers & Rape in Steubenville, Ohio
Commentary is worth very little without context. More often than not, merely asking the how and the why of a given event is insufficient to understanding anything beyond a two dimensional facsimile of what took place. In order to mine… Read More ›
Go Too Far to the Right and a Home Run Becomes a Foul Ball
There’s a scene about halfway the movie Pleasantville where William H. Macy comes stumbling into the local bowling alley soaking wet, shell-shocked and sporting a thousand mile stare that’s a few shades shy of catatonic. All of the other guys… Read More ›
If Anyone’s Gonna Be Fraudulent Around Here, It’s Gonna Be Us
“The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.” – Christopher Hitchens For being a nation that essentially founded the modern democratic republic, we’ve never been too fond of the whole “democratic” part of the equation. As… Read More ›
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