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A Day in a Slop Shop

A Rough Start “You’re going to hate it,” Jose said. Jose was the assistant manage. He had just shared the unfortunate news that I would need to work at a different location today. “It’s gross over there. Sloppy, grimy…. nobody likes the location.” He apologized, said the usual “it’s not my choice” nonsense. He meant it, he didn’t want to make me leave, but the regional director — arbiter of all that is just and true in the tri-county area — had decreed that my presence was required elsewhere. That regional director was physically in our shop but refused to even look at me,…

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Fictional Stories

The Trip Before The Trip

The Trip Before The Trip My best attempt at describing a wild psychedelic adventure. The night before starting my road trip through America, I took a winding psychedelic trip through the universe with my dear friend, Jesus. (No, not the man on the cross. A Mexican man with whom I shared many a troublesome story.…

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The Rock That Can’t Be Reached

The Rock That Can’t Be Reached We were at the quarry again. The quarry is the closest thing to a beach for people like us, who didn’t live in fancy private lake communities and were not a near drive to any public beaches. The quarry didn’t seem like much to folks who hadn’t grown up…

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Local News

Journalism

As 2020 ends, Censorship and Tone-policing Increasingly Plague Media

As 2020 ends, Censorship and Tone-policing Increasingly Plague Media In an attempt to remove a totalitarian leader from office, the media has reverted to their own twisted form of totalitarianism. In a politically oppressive system, the party in power often exerts control over the people by altering the truth and controlling information. In Xi Jingping’s…

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PA Dems scapegoat Green Party to turn Commonwealth blue

PA Dems scapegoat Green Party to turn Commonwealth blue The Pennsylvania Green Party bears the burden of an increasingly polarized political landscape, and PA residents should take note The next president of our country may be decided by a single state—Pennsylvania. No candidate has won an election without winning the Keystone state in over 80…

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