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The greatest sins of newspapers are sins of omission and emphasis. Historical context is usually ignored, and though facts are reported truly, a lack of context can make the facts lie.
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Sept. 15, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
Come on Kurt, We've Published Your Sophomoric Letters
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To blame disasters like the Twin Towers and New Orleans on a few perpetrators is to ignore the greater disasters that are the foundation upon which the developed world lives: our attempts to hold on to an unsustainable way of life
Aug. 18, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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The greatest danger to Israel, in the long term, is its dependence on the United States
Aug. 4, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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Ban what you please, although the current campaign against secondhand smoke will not prevent the 21st-century universe from killing us. It merely provides the illusion of safety.
July 21, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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The pattern repeats across the country. Talk tough against immigrants for the redneck vote, then stop any anti-immigrant operation that costs businesses money – which means all of 'em.
July 7, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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On this drive, the universe condensed into one word: invitation.
June 23, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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The history of Mary Magdalene is more mysterious than any pulp yarn
June 9, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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The federal government benefits from undocumented workers, therefore something is owed those workers in return: justice
May 26, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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Apart from the boycott, and separate from it, the theme of May 1 was, over and over: Register and vote.
May 12, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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Three fronts of transformative change in U.S. society: the allowance of Christian proselytizing in the U.S. Air Force Academy, Halliburton's receipt of government contracts to build detention centers for Homeland Security, and the rise of the Latino electorate
April 28, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
Letters at 3AM: Effete!
It's never too late to see yourself as you are
April 14, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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No matter if it's an unknown young singer like 17-year-old Sahara Smith in a little club on South Lamar (the "unknown" part won't last long in her case), no matter if it's in the room of an unknown poet destined to remain unknown, no matter – there are acts of creation, however desperate, that cannot be stopped.
March 31, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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Bob Dylan says he doesn't know how a guy like him came out of a place like Hibbing. He's been saying things like that for 40 years and I don't know a rock critic who doesn't take him at his word. But I also don't know a rock critic who's been to Hibbing. I wanted to see for myself.
March 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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When we say, "This is Nature, and this is not," we're just picking and choosing according to our ideologies, desires, and needs – in other words, a power play to make life behave as we wish. That it never does is life's answer to our machinations.
March 3, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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Our national self-doubt and self-conflict are nothing new, but what is new, in the last 40 years or so, is a state of confused and conflicted values. It is the signature of our era that we live in a world so unstable that its limits may be tested merely by a bumper sticker.
Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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Unless my transmission conks out in a place like Bossier City, a guy like me hasn't much chance to hear out a guy like Virgil
Feb. 3, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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Silence is not an option, if our Constitution is ever again to rise from the paper on which it was written
Jan. 20, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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The president and his people have broken the laws governing warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and furthermore, lied about it, repeatedly and knowingly
Jan. 6, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
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The Devil gives you five seconds, and God gives you none at all
Dec. 23, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death, Micahel Ventura revisits the column he wrote at the time of Lennon's murder when the pain was fresh
Dec. 9, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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Stanley Crawford's 1966 novel 'GASCOYNE' has been out of print for 35 years, a literary crime redressed this month by the Overlook Press
Nov. 25, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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Right now, and for at least the next three years of this administration, the United States of America is not being governed. Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, and Iraq every day confirms, that the powers-that-be are dysfunctional. We are on our own.
Nov. 11, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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With oil in the future rationed to agriculture, essential services, and (inevitably) the military, and personal long-distance driving and passenger flight no longer feasible – then, if the United States is to remain a continental entity, the only answer is trains
Oct. 28, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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People of all political persuasions are beginning to face the reality that Americans' demand for oil is outpacing our supply and refining capacity, which in turn will cripple our economy's ability to grow. Our disposable society will become a scavenging society, and, on the brighter side, a more inventive society.
Oct. 14, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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With two storms, nature has increased the speed of America's decline by several years. This series of columns sketches what we're in for (for good as well as for ill). The focus of this column is air travel and the tourist industries.
Sept. 30, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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Are the Panhandle's many roadside monuments to Christ testaments of faith or unadmitted doubt, or some of both?
Sept. 2, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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The sapping of America's economic and technological dominance is a boon for the world. Many are gaining from the decline of a few.
Aug. 19, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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We are a community, we and the creatures. There are only a few tenths of a percent of difference between the chimpanzees' DNA and ours, yours, mine.
Aug. 5, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
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No recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' shared the poem's spirit or its author's invitation to expand the very definition of 'human being'
