Poem – Oddfellow (By Donal Mahoney)

  Homer’s never owned a gun, thinks they should be banned along with bombs and missiles.   Doesn’t need them in the river that flows between his mind and his emotions   where every now and then he pushes someone in  for some untoward remark.   He points to the sky first, says that’s where heaven is and gives a push […]

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Inequality: Why the poor are getting poorer

Why is America a nation of growing inequality? The yawning economic and cultural gap between the well-to-do and the working class—now wider than at almost any point in our history—has academics and pundits searching for explanations. Now, a new Harvard study provides an illuminating—and “horrifying”—insight into what’s going on. The affluent and the working classes, the study found, are raising […]

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Poem – Warning Signs (By Gary Beck)

  We ignore preparations that insure survival so citizens of neglect have little chance in a doomed nation, brought about by the greed of our masters concerned with their comforts, while the people struggle to pay the rent, put food on the table, insufficiently aware of the extravagance of the aristos spending millions on Picassos, while the children of poverty […]

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