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What to wear to a voter intimidation

Wondering what kind of Democrat “costume” would scare a MAGA As you probably read somewhere, a federal judge has declined to bar a right-wing group “monitoring” outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa, saying that to do so could violate the group’s constitutional rights. And as you’ve probably seen…

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What to wear to a voter intimidation
What to wear to a voter intimidation
Politics

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A Tale of Tinnitus, for What It’s Worth

Stop, now, what’s that sound? — Nature is said to abhor a vacuum. The human ear and brain abhor silence. If auditory stimulation from the outside world is diminished, the brain and the ear will make up for it, creating phantom sounds that are usually labeled tinnitus. Though it’s often used interchangeably with “ringing in the…

Music

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A Tale of Tinnitus, for What It’s Worth
A Tale of Tinnitus, for What It’s Worth
Music

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Simplify

A playful ditty about getting back down to the real nitty gritty First, a big shout out to fellow Medium contributor Scott Vatour. …

Simplicity

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Simplify
Simplify
Simplicity

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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Someone, please explain this Medium . . . to me — The more I read and explore on Medium, the more I feel as though, like Alice, I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole or stepped through the looking glass. And not just because I’ve already encountered the equivalents of the Mad Hatter, the Tweedles, the Cheshire Cat, and the Red Queen. …

Writing

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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Writing

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Sacrament

A poem about life, death, tomatoes, product placement, and rebirth — Sacrament I want to be a sacrament When I die Mix my ashes with garden soil, Miracle Gro Put us in the plot I tilled and tended every spring Plant tomatoes — Beefsteaks, Better Boys and Brandywines Water well And when we ripen Slice us thick and lay us out good white bread slathered with mayonnaise Preferably Hellman’s, though Duke’s or Blue Pate will do

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Sacrament
Sacrament
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A Thousand Little Deaths in America

Look down, look down, those lonesome roads — Not long after I returned to my home in Georgia from a road trip to east Texas to help relatives get ready for an estate sale, a friend shared an article with me that he’d read on Salon.com …

America

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A Thousand Little Deaths in America
A Thousand Little Deaths in America
America

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·Jun 1

Playground Poetics

A park on Timothy Road in Athens reminded… —

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Playground Poetics
Playground Poetics
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·May 29

Take It Off . . . Take It All Off

Requiem for a once famous brand that died “Take it off . . . take it all off.” Readers of a certain age will instantly recognize those words as one of the most successful branding slogans ever — right up there with “Where’s the Beef?” …

Marketing

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Take It Off . . . Take It All Off
Take It Off . . . Take It All Off
Marketing

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·May 27

Florida Needs a New Nickname

Ain’t no sunshine thanks to Ron/Ain’t no sunshine thanks to Ron In a particularly shameful upshot of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s efforts to “protect” students from exposure to the racial injustice in our history, a school in Miami Lakes restricted access to “The Hill We Climb,” the incredible poem that…

Florida

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Florida Needs a New Nickname
Florida Needs a New Nickname
Florida

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May 19

Pump It Up

If electric cars are our future, why are new gas stations springing up as though internal combustion were the new frontier? OK, all you Medium.com contributors and readers, please be my “hive mind,” my oracle, my Magic 8 Ball, my Ouija Board. …

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Pump It Up
Pump It Up
Electric Vehicles

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Noel Holston

Noel Holston

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Writer, photographer, horticulturist, international music icon. Lives in the South. Email Noel at nholstonga@gmail.com

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