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Today at A Free Man: Gettin’ Horny in the Big Easy

Dear DNC,
I am writing regarding your recent request. First, I should say that I am not a Democrat. I am a pragmatic liberal and thus am often inclined to vote for your candidates. This has certainly been the case recently due to the giant […]

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The Super Tuesday votes are in and (mostly) counted leaving the question - who won? The short answer is no one or maybe everyone (except Mitt Romney). For the long answer, read on.
Super Tuesday, the day in which nearly half of the states held primaries or caucuses, was as exciting and indecisive as most pundits […]

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If you’re a Republican, I suspect that you’re pretty happy about the recent CNN Democratic Presidential debate in South Carolina. To be fair, I haven’t seen it, but the press accounts and transcript seems that the the two frontrunners went after each other like schoolboys in a playground fight - name calling, fists and wrestling […]

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A couple of months ago I declared an end to this weekly feature, but with the 2008 U.S. presidential election in full swing, there has been plenty of political fodder. This week the news has been the news itself trying to what turned out to be a “Dewey Beats Truman” moment in the New Hampshire […]

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CNN is projecting Hillary Clinton as the winner of the New Hampshire Primary and for some reason has chosen this image to accompany their story. It’s a slim, but crucial two-point, win for the New York Senator and it looks like this could be a long and competitive primary season after all. John McCain won […]

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Granite Staters head to the polls for the second major event of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election - the first using the good old secret ballot approach to democracy. However if, like me, your still a little confused about just what goes on in the high school gymnasiums of a Midwestern state with more livestock […]

 

 The Autumn Defense - "Iowa City Adieu" [3:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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“Bottom feeder, insincere
Prophet, lo-fi pioneer
Sell the house and go to school
Get a young girlfriend, daddy’s jewel
A change would do you good…”
-Sheryl Crow - “A Change”
My Florida absentee ballot is safely in the hands of The Royal Mail - on it’s way to the Volusia County Supervisor of Elections. This means that I’ve cast my vote […]

 

 Sheryl Crow - "A Change" [3:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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It must be interesting to live in Bill O’Reilly’s world. It is a world with black and white and no gray. It is a world in which the only options of who can rule America are the Bush Administration or the New York Times. It is a world in which you can make up poll […]

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One of the music blogs I read regularly recently veered away from form and posted a story called “America the Unfriendly” that got my mind whirling. However, I’ve got to space out my posts that cast aspersions on American government policies lest readers think I’m one of Bill O’Reilly’s “America haters“. Despite being an expat, […]

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