Author Archives: Ralph

Barack Obama’s great leap forward dependent on putting a woman in charge of every country

Former President Barack Obama, described to Oprah by his wife Michelle as “swagalicious,” never missed an opportunity to note how he was surrounded by strong women and a better man for it. It turns out it’s a favorite line, even when he’s not trawling for votes. Speaking in Montreal on Tuesday, Obama returned again to…

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Old City Blues

The year is 2048 and the city of New Athens, filled with mech smugglers, drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and all-too-powerful corporations. Special Police agents Solano, Thermidor, and the rest of the New Athens Special Police Dept are faced with all new mysteries and action in their effort to keep the city in order. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“uJdoDwAAQBAJ”, 500,400);

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The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer

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8-Bit Christmas

It’s 1980-something and all nine-year-old Jake Doyle wants for Christmas is a Nintendo Entertainment System. No Jose Canseco rookie card, no GI Joe hovercraft, no Teddy friggin’ Ruxpin-just Nintendo. But when a hyperactive Shih Tzu is accidentally crushed to death by a forty-two-inch television set and every parent in town blames Nintendo, it’s up to…

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Ray of hope for stalled projects

However, this offer comes with a rider. Union Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda explained, “There is a proposal for the army handing over around 34 acres within the city in return for around 400 acres in Read more: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/ray-of-hope-for-stalled-projects/article8823105.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

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The BreakBeat Poets

A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.

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A Weekend in New York

What are you feeling so anxious about? I’m the guy who has to go out there and lose.’ ‘That’s what I don’t like. That’s what you don’t realize. It’s harder on the rest of us.’ ‘I’m sure it must be, ‘ he said. Tolstoy claimed: ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy…

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