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Dear Mr. Blitzer

Posted on June 24, 2018June 26, 2018 by PlayFair

Dear Mr. Blitzer, I just watched your interview with General Hayden.  As a determined and incisive journalist, you had an obligation to press the general for

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How Much and How Many Will Die in the Dark?

Posted on June 16, 2018August 4, 2018 by Karen

The headline in The Guardian (June 16, 2018) read: 2,000 children separated from parents in six weeks under Trump policy.  As I went on, each sentence

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Save the Paper and the Postage, Congressman Paulsen

Posted on June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 by PlayFair

This past week I’ve received two pieces of mail from Erik Paulsen, my congressman for Minnesota’s 3rd District. The first reads: “Protecting Our Children Fighting Meningitis

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The Concentration Camp as Concert Hall

Posted on March 5, 2018March 6, 2018 by PlayFair

I would very likely bite anyone who tries snatching this book from my hands. Yesterday morning, 6AM, I’m grumbling, “Don’t bother me; I’m reading!” The other

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Pull It Together

Posted on December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 by PlayFair

Pull it together, for crying out loud! I can’t settle. I can’t write right. Words fail me. My anger feeds my fear and my fear feeds

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