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Ishmael's Legacy
Thinking for yourself in a world of manipulative messaging.
Author:
Bill Ingram
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September 5, 2025
September 5, 2025
Texas Republicans’ War on Public Schools
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May 8, 2025
May 10, 2025
The Coffee Party 2.0
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April 20, 2025
April 20, 2025
Why Do We Still Celebrate Easter?
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April 4, 2025
The Dept. of Education Had to Go, BUT…
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February 19, 2025
Is Trump Ending Medicaid a Good Thing?
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February 8, 2025
The NBA’s Very Own January 6th Moment
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January 14, 2025
Save the Snowman!
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December 25, 2024
When Santa Rides Away
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December 25, 2024
Brief But Spectacular: Santa Claus
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December 17, 2024
Perspective: UnitedHealthcare Shooting
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December 9, 2024
December 8, 2024
A Kind Person’s Response to an Unkind Election
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December 6, 2024
What Democrats Must Figure Out
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November 19, 2024
America: An Autopsy
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August 9, 2024
Star Wars: A (New) New Hope
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August 2, 2024
The Art of (Always) Being Offended
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July 28, 2024
The Case for VP Mark Kelly
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July 24, 2024
Election 2024: The Game Changer
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June 11, 2024
Star Wars Episode II – A Division in The Force
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June 11, 2024
June 11, 2024
Star Wars Episode I: The Chosen One
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May 24, 2024
US News: (Loosely) Based on True Stories
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May 8, 2024
The Power of Star Wars Month
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May 3, 2024
Marjorie Taylor Greene Didn’t Get the Memo
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April 26, 2024
April 26, 2024
The Fight Against Greedflation
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April 12, 2024
Mike Johnson’s Humiliating Pilgrimage
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April 5, 2024
America and the Great Jedi Mind Trick
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March 28, 2024
The Human Race: “So Uncivilized”
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March 22, 2024
The Eternal, Interminable Election Season
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March 17, 2024
Finding Humanity at Disney World
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March 1, 2024
Mary Poppins Racism Finally Exposed! (Not)
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February 23, 2024
Right-Wing Extremism Strangling Christianity
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February 16, 2024
Israel/Palestine for Dummies
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February 13, 2024
February 13, 2024
The Magic of Taylor Swift
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February 8, 2024
Republicans Fumble at the Goal Line (Again)
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January 26, 2024
May 21, 2024
A Southern Border Perspective
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January 14, 2024
January 17, 2024
Dedication: My Father the Hero
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January 7, 2024
January 7, 2024
Will SCOTUS Create a God?
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December 30, 2023
Leave the World Behind
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December 11, 2023
December 11, 2023
How Hollywood Lost the Way
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November 28, 2023
2024: The Year of the First Amendment
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November 21, 2023
America’s Greatest Murder Mystery Turns 60
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November 16, 2023
Joe Biden’s Andrew Shepherd Moment
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November 10, 2023
Oreos and Chex Mix: Teaching in America
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November 3, 2023
The New American Way
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September 28, 2023
Vouchers: The Answer for Public Schools?
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September 19, 2023
Standing Up To Cancel Culture
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August 29, 2023
Stuck At A Green Light
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July 31, 2023
Barbie: An Alternate Perspective
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July 25, 2023
July 25, 2023
When You Tell the Supreme Court “No!”
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July 17, 2023
Nolan Kills Millions While Filming “Oppenheimer”
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May 9, 2023
Reclaiming the Republican Party
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May 1, 2023
The Lost Art of Minding Your Own Business
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April 19, 2023
Why Dominion vs. FOX News Doesn’t Matter
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March 31, 2023
America’s Wyatt Earp Gun Solution
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March 20, 2023
The Art of The Lie
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February 24, 2023
Are We Too Soft for Adjectives?
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February 10, 2023
February 13, 2023
In Pursuit of Jesus
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January 24, 2023
January 25, 2023
US House: Theater of the Absurd
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December 14, 2022
It’s Time to Talk About Lucasfilm
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December 12, 2022
Decoding Talking Points: Paul Whelan
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December 5, 2022
Generation P(laylist)
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November 10, 2022
The Storm on the Horizon
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October 28, 2022
America’s (Pretend) Energy Crisis
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October 17, 2022
The People of the Rock
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September 24, 2022
Why Children Need Magic
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September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022
An Open Letter to Texas Senator Ted Cruz
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August 31, 2022
Teaching: A Different Perspective
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August 30, 2022
Taking A Walk
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July 19, 2022
The Final Curtain Call
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May 25, 2022
Beating Inflation 101
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May 10, 2022
The Truth About Abortion
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May 4, 2022
Cell Phone Zombies?
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April 20, 2022
Thoughts On Resurrection
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April 8, 2022
America 2.0 – Reimagining Public Education
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March 22, 2022
America 2.0 – Reimagining Democracy
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March 2, 2022
The Truth About Gas Prices
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February 18, 2022
Racism and America’s Classrooms
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February 8, 2022
What Biden Should Admit About COVID-19
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January 31, 2022
Off White and the Seven Ummmm…
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January 21, 2022
January 21, 2022
The Myth of “Free” Money
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January 11, 2022
The Real Magic of Harry Potter
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December 21, 2021
December 21, 2021
A New Christmas Story
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December 7, 2021
Sunrise, Sunset
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December 2, 2021
The Next Great American Plague
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November 11, 2021
The Truth About Critical Race Theory
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November 3, 2021
Some Real Talk About the Minimum Wage
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October 26, 2021
Conspiracy? Or Conspiracy Theory?
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October 21, 2021
Rational Adulting is Getting Harder
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October 6, 2021
The Real Reason for Record Unemployment
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September 24, 2021
Facebook is Not the Problem with America
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September 16, 2021
The Lost History
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September 1, 2021
Special Education: Handicapping America
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August 19, 2021
Armchair Quarterbacking Afghanistan
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August 10, 2021
August 10, 2021
Is It Time to Mandate Vaccines?
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August 4, 2021
Seashells and Waterfalls
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July 22, 2021
The Order In Which It Was Received
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June 30, 2021
Social Media Is NOT News
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June 8, 2021
June 8, 2021
America Suffering From Cruelty Sickness?
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May 27, 2021
Getting Out of Your Mind
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May 24, 2021
Religious, But Not Spiritual
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May 17, 2021
Self-Fulfilling Headlines
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May 7, 2021
The Power of the Road Trip
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April 26, 2021
Time To Restore The Fairness Doctrine
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April 15, 2021
April 15, 2021
Be Afraid! Very Afraid!!
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April 13, 2021
Voter Suppression Is Not the Answer
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April 9, 2021
We Walk the Last Mile Alone
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March 25, 2021
Santa Claus and Jesus: A Parable
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March 1, 2021
I Speak For the Trees
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February 24, 2021
Most People Don’t Change
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February 20, 2021
Prayer and Meditation
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February 13, 2021
One Quick Edit Fixes The Star Wars Sequels
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February 12, 2021
The Importance of the Journey
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February 2, 2021
February 3, 2021
A Liberal Questions $15 Minimum Wage
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January 26, 2021
Exciting News About Heaven (Really!)
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January 20, 2021
It’s Time to Talk About the Truth
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January 19, 2021
The Strength in Silence
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January 12, 2021
Kindness Is A Super Power
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January 6, 2021
January 6, 2021
Work Hard As Self-Fulfillment
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December 15, 2020
December 15, 2020
An Attitude of Gratitude
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December 2, 2020
December 2, 2020
Overcoming Worry
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November 30, 2020
The Magic of Avoiding Anger
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November 20, 2020
The Power of Living For Today
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October 30, 2020
Another Fine Socialism Myth
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October 21, 2020
Is Physical Media Poised for a Big Comeback?
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October 20, 2020
October 30, 2020
Meditation on John 3:17 (not 16)
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October 16, 2020
October 30, 2020
The Stupidity of Political Ads
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October 12, 2020
October 30, 2020
The Fallacy of the Hot Button Issue
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September 16, 2020
October 30, 2020
The Shapes of My Signing
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August 26, 2020
Why Educators Hate the School Voucher Concept
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August 20, 2020
August 26, 2020
Senators Like John Cornyn (TX) Must Go
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August 18, 2020
August 26, 2020
Why the US Postal Service is Under Siege
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August 5, 2020
August 26, 2020
The Demonization of J.K. Rowling
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July 25, 2020
August 26, 2020
Is Portland A Sign of Things to Come?
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July 13, 2020
August 26, 2020
How Does America Go Forward?
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July 2, 2020
August 26, 2020
The Modern-Day Tower of Babel
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June 30, 2020
August 26, 2020
America in Extreme Overreaction Mode
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June 10, 2020
August 26, 2020
Return of the Wild, Wild West?
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June 2, 2020
June 2, 2020
America Rioting In All the Wrong Places
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May 31, 2020
COVID-19 and the Fallacy of Dieting
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May 20, 2020
Why Harrison Ford is Wrong About Han Solo
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May 9, 2020
COVID-19: America’s IQ Test
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April 27, 2020
Time To Silence Star Wars Critic Trolls
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April 11, 2020
The Fallacies of the Trump/Biden Election
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April 2, 2020
Ishmael and America’s Pandemic Panic
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March 22, 2020
Is COVID-19 Part of World War III?
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March 15, 2020
Lessons of The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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March 6, 2020
March 6, 2020
The Real Danger Donald Trump Represents
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February 24, 2020
A Memo To Bernie Sanders Supporters
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February 21, 2020
Are Smart Phones Making Kids Dumber?
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February 13, 2020
March 27, 2020
Inside Education’s Must-Pass Test
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February 6, 2020
When Opinion Becomes Fact
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January 29, 2020
March 27, 2020
Perspective: The Big, Scary Word “Socialism!”
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January 22, 2020
March 27, 2020
Special Education Isn’t So Special Anymore
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January 16, 2020
March 27, 2020
The Evolution of Fake Star Wars “News”
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January 15, 2020
Ishmael and Marriage Equality
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January 8, 2020
January 15, 2020
Ishmael and the Politics of Division
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January 7, 2020
January 15, 2020
Ishmael and Jesus
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January 5, 2020
January 22, 2020
Manufactured Anger
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January 3, 2020
January 22, 2020
Call Me Ishmael….
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January 3, 2020
January 4, 2020
Ishmael Thinking
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