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  • Bob Dylan, My Story

    May 30, 2012 • 1:56 pm

    Sally Swift

    By Sally Swift

     Charles Dharapak/AP "Bob's voice, with its weight, its unique gravely power, was redefining not just what music sounded like, but the message it carried and how it made people feel. Today, everybody from Bruce Springsteen to U2 owes Bob a debt of gratitude. There is not a bigger giant i…

  • scanner

    Chewing a Man's Face Off~

    February 16, 2011 • 6:29 am

    By scanner

         I wrote this article on February 16, 2011 and never posted it. I didn't like how it turned out, but more than that, I really didn't think these "cocaine bath salts" were all that bad. Law enforcement has a way scaring the public into "not" worrying…

  • Coming Out To Beth

    June 1, 2012 • 7:32 am

    Bert Baruch Wylen

    By Bert Baruch Wylen

    I’m not the most courageous man on Earth—not even a close second. So when I pulled on my suit that day and tied my tie, I wasn’t preparing for my usual daily battle in the business world, envisioning myself a knight in shining armor, so much as tying on my chain…

  • SorrisoAya

    A Girl's Second Love

    June 1, 2012 • 7:00 am

    By SorrisoAya

    When you hear a girl speak about love, many people roll their eyes and sigh. Or perhaps break out the ice cream and some form of movies (I was always partial to a good gory movie to get my head off a break up). But no, I’m speaking of one of…

  • libbyliberalnyc

    War! What is it Good For? Capitalism.

    May 31, 2012 • 4:20 pm

    By libbyliberalnyc

    While trying to research the REAL truth of what is going on with Syria, since clearly the big US media propaganda machine is stenographically on board for yet another massive destruction of a country on the US and NATO’s bloody faux-humanitarian-regime-changing clipboard, I came across a remar …

  • Chicago Guy

    Doc Watson's front porch spirit

    May 27, 2012 • 4:43 pm

    By Chicago Guy

    In the Watson biography, “Blind But Now I See,” Kent Gustavson quotes folk singer Greg Brown, “If the wind and the rain could play guitar, they would sound like Doc Watson.”

  • Jake Highton

    Obama militarist, NATO outdated

    May 29, 2012 • 12:19 pm

    By Jake Highton

    Ministers from 28 nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held a summit meeting in Chicago last week, triumphantly proclaiming the status quo and proving NATO’s irrelevance