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Random thoughts from a random thinker
THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN
January 15, 2021
For weeks, over and over, people said the election was stolen. Many of us have been baffled by such assertions. How can so many people honestly believe the election was stolen when ...
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STEFANOWSKI
January 8, 2021
Give Bob Stefanowski credit for getting one thing right: Connecticut’s cities have major problems. Other than that, this guy who seems to still want to be Governor of Connecticut is clueless or ...
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THE NEXT NEW WORLD
December 18, 2020
Our country was founded on a simple but profound principle: That free people will build a new world, a better world. There was no way that the Founding Fathers could have known ...
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RACISM ISN’T A POLITICAL PROBLEM
December 11, 2020
We should get one thing straight: Racism is a cultural problem, not a political problem. Racism isn’t about Democrat and Rebublican, and it isn’t about passing laws to fix racism. Racism is ...
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IT’S TIME TO LISTEN
December 4, 2020
I find I keep having the same conversation with people. It’s a conversation about the great divide in the United States, the gulf between right and left, the seeming impossibility of agreeing ...
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IF YOU WANT TO END RACISM AND STUFF YOU GOT TO SING LOUD
November 20, 2020
And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar With feeling. ...
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FEEL IT
November 12, 2020
Perhaps the greatest single characteristic of humans that makes them unique among all other living beings is our ability to transfer complex thoughts, ideas, concepts, and feelings from one human being to ...
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AMERICA NEEDS ITS BLACK POPULATION
November 6, 2020
I read somewhere that the Founding Fathers believed not only that they were creating a government for our country; they believed they were creating a blueprint for the world. They believed they ...
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Author: Mark Korber
Mark Korber is a semi-retired curmudgeon who can’t quite stop practicing law. He is known to his friends to have an opinion on most anything and to express it, in detail, to anyone who shows the slightest interest. He writes about regionalism, Hartford, family and the Buffalo Bills.