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‪It’s an absurd supposition, i.e. bases for an argument, that those who are against abortion care about life. We hear staunch leftists say, If you care…
Jordan Watland
(A Response to Joan Didion)
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Many stories depend on setting; without a certain setting they cannot be true; the stories become impossible and false in new environments. Other…
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After he retired, he continued to leave the house every morning at 8am and every evening at 5pm, promptly, in order to hit rush hour traffic. Though he…
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Something broke finally when he came upon three men firing at a dog they’d corned between buildings on the northside of town. This was when the fighting…
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The following is the transcript sic erat scriptum (but for names and actual “reservation numbers”) of an interaction with a Priceline customer service…
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A stroll along the waterway brought me to know I was along the waterway, talking with my wife about knowing we were talking about knowing we were…
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A Last Conversation
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What if the President of the United States were a con artist? Okay. Okay. But stay with me, now. Here’s where it gets weird: What if, in addition to…
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Last night, I had dinner with an old friend. She was a half hour later than expected. The reason: Uber. The friend, whom I’ll call Lisa for sake of…
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If Richard Ramsden is right, well done US Government. Last month, Ramsden, a reportedly well-respected bank analyst employed by Goldman Sachs, published…
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In 1822, Thomas Jefferson had had enough. The US Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall had decided a number of landmark cases in the previous…
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