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‘Too Busy’ As An Instrument of Incivility and Exhibitionism
People who give you short shrift because they're so busy and so important are employing an avoidance shtick. They think acting that important makes them that important, perception being everything.
How We are Perceived By Our Names
My name, Djelloul, has brought me into confrontation all my life with what it is to be an American. In boarding school it was questioned and I was made to feel 'foreign,' but in the Navy it was accepted because I was a brother in arms.
We Once Thought Lard Was Good for Us-Maybe We’ll Get Over Reaganomics
Americans once believed that eating lard was good for their health. doctors approved smoking, and Medicare was a communist plot. So there is hope for us yet.
Joan Siegel’s Poetry Shows How Much Society Needs From Its Elderly
Joan I. Siegel, a retired professor of literature, has written an elegant and profoundly moving book of poems, Hyacinth for the Soul, in which ghosts quilt stories in the half-light of memories.
Brian Turner, Soldier-Poet, Tells us What The Iraq War is Really Like
We should imbed in combat units not journalists, but poets, artists, musicians-all better equipped to elevate human consciousness. This book about the Iraq war proves it.
