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Stripped Naked | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 30, 2018 In the 1997 British film The Full Monty, we have six unemployed men, four of them laid off steelworkers, earning money by ...
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6 Ways to Make Mister Rogers Proud | Mickey Z.
PHOTO: Gene J. Puskar, Associated Press Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 5, 2018 Confession: I never watched Mister Rogers Neighborhood as a child. I’m not sure why but perhaps my big sister was ...
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That time Katharine Hepburn wore pants | Mickey Z.
Katharine Hepburn at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, 1955 / Australian Photographic Agency (APA) Collection. Flickr. No known copyright restrictions. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 29, 2018 “If you ...
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Like the seasons, too, we must change… | Mickey Z.
Photo/Collage by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 20, 2018 Mickey Z.: What other career paths did you consider and why? Kristen H.: I never considered any other career path. *** My fifth ...
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The Choice of a Canon | John Michael Greer
May 23, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on the spooky dimensions of reading -- the one-on-one encounter, in the silent places of the mind, with another person’s thinking -- sparked a lively ...
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Billie Holiday said 'This is America' 80 years ago with 'Strange Fruit' | Mickey Z.
Photo collage: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 20, 2018 Too bad they didn’t have Twitter in 1939 when Billie Holiday first performed #StrangeFruit. Southern trees bear strange fruit, ...
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A Tune for Mountain Dulcimer | John Michael Greer
May 2, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- For some time now I’ve been thinking about one of the core patterns underlying recent history here in the United States. It’s a pattern that can be traced from ...
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The public perception of Stormy Daniels, “porn stars” and “hookers.” | Mickey Z.
By DonkeyHotey (Stormy Daniels - Caricature) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 19, 2018 “The reasons a woman only has to make one porn film to be a ‘porn star’ are similar ...
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Rim Banna and the Cultural War that Palestinians Must Win | Ramzy Baroud
Rim Banna. From Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 2, 2018 Rim Banna passed away at the age of 51. Her death on March 24, after a decade-long battle with cancer, ...
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Some of what I learned about women as a boy on the streets of Long Island City | Mickey Z.
Photo: courtesy of Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 11, 2018 I’ve come to recognize -- particularly in the time of #metoo -- how important it is for men to identify their early ...
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Was Muhammad Ali over-rated? (spoiler: yes, in every possible way) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Muhammad Ali -- “The Greatest” -- was not only vastly overrated as a fighter but even more overrated as a rebel-activist-revolutionary-humanitarian. Mickey Z. -- World News ...
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