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Confused or curious about the Ukrainian revolution?
If you think you know exactly what is going on in Ukraine, or if you are wishing someone will explain something to you about the situation, you will benefit from this article by Andrea Chalupa. It’s...
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Woman resigns on air: “I can’t be part of a network that whitewashes the...
This is for all those people who believe journalists no longer have integrity.
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Western media is misrepresenting Ukraine
At this point I’m unable to tell if the Western media, particularly cable networks, but to some extent also newspapers , are simply irresponsible or actually asinine when it comes to representations of...
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Putin’s information war
Please read and share this article from Forbes titled How the Western Press is Getting it Terribly Wrong in Ukraine. It contains updates at the end that are particularly useful, and it strengthens the...
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Lithuanian Writers Union addresses writers regarding Ukraine
As I am not yet a citizen of Lithuania, I cannot join the Writers Union. However, I wrote this essay about their favorite bar and have the utmost respect for them. This moved me:
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I have to buy pants
It’s come down to it. I can no longer bring any of the trousers or jeans I own to the seamstress. I have to go out and buy another pair of pants. This is always a terrible realization. It means I’ll...
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The “secret weapon” of marketing
Hint: it’s no secret. Here’s a great video I’m going to use in my class this summer to make a point about argumentation and persuasion. This woman’s job is to make the British and Canadian public buy...
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Concert for Ukraine in Chicago
Saturday, March 28th at 7:00, my wife, Maria Storm, will be playing a benefit concert for Ukrainian relief organizations. The first half of the concert, in Chicago’s gorgeous Second Presbyterian...
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Dariya Marchenko: Art from Ammunition
Here’s the brilliant Dariya Marchenko making a humanitarian statement on the continued atrocities perpetrated by Vladimir Putin. This Reuters report should leave you provoked and moved. Daria assembles...
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A student weighs in on Palin
One of my students asked me this morning if I had heard the junkyard of syntax Sarah Palin had delivered at Trump’s event in Iowa. I told him that, yes, unfortunately, I had heard it. This student...
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The implausibility of a Great American Wall
I tried posting this article on Facebook, but I felt it did not get the proper traction, so I’m going to share it here on Liquid Ink. Some colleagues and I were discussing this over lunch. Does anyone...
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We are all members of our culture
I’m depressed today because I know I’m complicit. Separating myself from the culture—indeed, the cultures—to which I belong is impossible. I am an American at a terribly low point in our history, and I...
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Brilliant Lithuanian street art
All art is political. All art contains truth, although some art is more true that other art. This is about the truest works of art I’ve ever encountered, and it’s from Vilnius, on the wall of Keulė...
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New essay published
The good folks at ReImagining Magazine have published their summer issue. My essay, An American Imposter, finds itself there. I spent a long time abroad this spring and summer, and got tired of having...
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Scott Baio After School Special: Stoned
Look out, kids. If you smoke weed, this is what will happen to you. You’d think Baio never actually took a toke, watching this. Happy Days, indeed. (The best part is the muted trumpet.)
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Open letter to Lithuanian-Americans who tend to vote Republican
Dear fellow Lithuanians: Today I’m asking you to think about one of our mutual interests: the continued independence of Lithuania and the rest of the Baltic States. No, I’m not a Republican and never...
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Honestly, Europe, now’s not the time
In the last few weeks, I’ve gotten into several conversations with Europeans—British, Dutch, German and Lithuanian—who were having fun at America’s expense. Just today I received an article written by...
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What if the most powerful person in the world is a woman?
Today, I walked past a stand whose last remaining newspaper showed a photo of our candidates for President on the debate stage. A phrase came to my mind and just floated there, seemingly out of place....
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