In 2004, awaiting a vote in the newly liberated Iraq, their first democratic vote ever, I wrote my first published essay, “Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East”, a 5500 word opus, and a pro-Iraq War website published it. (I think…
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“Leave the Bottle Full for Others”- Desert Pete
“Thank you kindly, Desert Pete” Billy Edd Wheeler was the O. Henry of folk music in the 60’s. I don’t recall him writing a single political lyric, not even sex. Just stories. Most had morals. He did write about a long-legged…