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Why I Marched

<p> I&#8217;d love for someone, anyone, to explain to me why Iraq was the main breeding ground for terrorism that we had to tackle. Weren&#8217;t the terrorists who attacked our country mainly from Saudi Arabia? Isn&#8217;t the leader of Al-Qaeda the scion of a wealthy Saudi family? Don&#8217;t the Saudi people deserve liberation from the monarchists who are looting the oil wealth of their country? Of course, the deep economic relationships between the Bush family and the Saudi royal family couldn&#8217;t have influenced our foreign policy.…

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Gaping Void: How To Be Creative

<p> The second, more subtle and profound advantage is: that by scuppering all hope of worldly and social betterment from the creative act, you are finally left with only one question to answer: </p> <p> Do you make this damn thing exist or not? </p> <p> And once you can answer that truthfully to yourself, the rest is easy. </p></blockquote> <p> <br /> He hasn&#8217;t included two of the newer posts in the series, <a href="http://www.…

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Aww, Grandma

<center> </p> <table> <tr> <td> <img src="/blog/images/Grandma-Nancy-And-Gerrard.jpg" alt="Nancy and Gerrard" /> </td> <td> <img src="/blog/images/Grandma-Dolores-And-Gerrard.jpg" alt="Dolores and Gerrard" /> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </center> </p> <p> On the left is a photo of my grandmother Nancy and I outside of my favorite comic book shop in Bayshore, LI. We&#8217;d gone there that day to attend a book signing by Doug Murray, the author of Marvel&#8217;s Vietnam set comic &#8220;The &#8216;Nam&#8221;. Not that we wouldn&#8217;t have been there even if there hadn&#8217;t been a book signing.…

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