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PAULA MEHMEL: Shoot The Rapids — More Than Lies

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Doublethink and doublespeak are a means of indoctrination in which people are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth. Orwell created the words in the most famous dystopian novel, “1984,” but we saw them on full display Tuesday night. The most egregious example was the horrific use of a child with cancer as a prop while at the …

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NANCY EDMONDS HANSON: After Thought — Hello? Hello? Is Someone Listening?

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Of all things, Russ and I were talking about bath mats. I’d just taken a shower downstairs, and I’d noticed that the mundane incumbent — already bearing the stains of years of feline hairball disposal — had begun shedding bits of fuzz and flakes of latex all over the tile floor. A trip to Target seemed to be in order …

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