The Routine Bilking of Soldiers
Fort Campbell, on the Kentucky/Tennessee border, is home to the 101st Airborne Division. “Go...
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Author: Fred Gardner
A ‘Perfy’ for the Claremont
For planting this item in the East Bay Express, the Claremont Hotel in Oakland deserves a Perfy...
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Paula Broadwell, Whistleblower
In Men in Black Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith make use of a device that erases memory as they...
Read MoreJason and the Jays
When Rosie lived on a farm in Oregon And Jason was 8, Evan was 14, and Kate was 6 There was an old, unloaded .22 rifle in the front closet That somebody might have fired at a rabid skunk crawling out from under a barn long ago....
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Cannabis and Combat
The photo was inked so dark in the print edition it was easy to miss the slogan emblazoned on a...
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Organizing Amazon —It’s an Inside Job
The front-page headline was no April Fool’s Day prank: “Amazon Workers on Staten...
Read More‘Prolonged Grief’ is now an Illness
The American Psychiatric Association has added “Prolonged Grief Disorder” to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder —a list of conditions for which insurance companies reimburse doctors. To break...
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Forever Fluoxetine
Muckraking is an exercise in futility. The exposés get published, the authors may or may not get...
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