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Cinco de Mayo, the non-Corona version

Cinco de Mayo to me is yet another corporate advertising holiday sponsored by Corona and Jose Cuervo. I probably thought it was about something else before I got to college, but thanks to those two sponsors I can no longer remember. That being said, I always wondered what it was really about, and it is […]

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It’s Called Reporting

Greg Palast: In fact, interestingly, “60 Minutes” came into our office and said, “My God, to prove what these caging lists are, you’re going to have to make hundreds of calls and spend hundreds of hours going through this stuff.” And we said, “Yeah, it’s reporting. Try it. It won’t hurt you.””

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Todays Civics Lesson

I wrote my congressman today.
Dear Congressman Thompson,
The philosopher and poet George Santayana once wrote: “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
I write you today as an amateur historian and former history student at UC Davis to ask you to consider joining your […]

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