“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller, 1970
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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So the Tea Party came and went on Tax Day, and yes, the nation survived. Of late, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this movement. What is it, precisely?
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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Dog fighting rings are here
To the Editor:
Your article about the dead dog really angered me (“Dog found dead in plastic bag,” April 15-21). I worked for the City of Long Beach for 16 …
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4/22/10
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You know I don’t keep anything from you, so why should I start now? After 60-something years of remaining relatively intact — that is, keeping all my parts in place — I was told last week that my gallbladder must go.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/21/10
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A good portion of last week’s news cycle focused on the rise of school bullies. Tragically, two young girls, including a Suffolk County teen, took their own lives after being pushed to the edge by bullies.
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Al D'Amato
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4/21/10
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Out of sheer curiosity, I decided one day to tour Long Beach from one end to the other and calculate the number of eateries in town. I found a few interesting things to report. While driving around …
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Gloria Febrizio
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4/15/10
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Randi sure fooled meTo the Editor: I read Randi Kreiss's column from time to time, and I tend to agree with her point of view on most things. I think she's a terrific writer. Now I think she's even …
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4/15/10
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A year ago, Long Island legislators dismissed Albany as the home of a government not of the people, but of “three men in a room.” And that wasn’t the first time that criticism was leveled; it’s been a perennial complaint. But now we’re lucky if we can get that many in a room, and even luckier if we know which three they are.
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4/8/10
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I never imagined that there would come a time in our nation’s history when Americans would be prohibited from free speech.
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Al D'Amato
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4/8/10
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It was, for me, what Henry David Thoreau might call a transcendent moment, when the world suddenly turned still and time seemed to slow.
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Scott Brinton
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4/8/10
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