Category Archives: democracy

  1. Tolerance, Trousers, and Egyptian Bar Jokes

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    June 18, 2022 by libroshombre

                International Tolerance Day won’t roll around until November 16, but it’s increasingly obvious we ought to celebrate “sympathy or …
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  2. Paw-Paws, the Klan, and Good Taste

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    May 9, 2022 by libroshombre

    LIBRARY COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344                                                                          May 5, 2022             The Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende and I must smell …
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  3. Evites, N-grams, and Bloody Tubs

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    May 21, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Mutable” is a good word that means “prone to change, inconstant,” according to Merriam-Webster, and it also describes all …
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    Category: democracy, elections, engineering, fascism, libraries, plants, public libraries, republic, word origins, words | Tags: , , , , ,

  4. Superman, Coups, and the Meaning of Democracy

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    February 4, 2021 by libroshombre

                It might be the wacky, frightening times we’re living in, but sometimes a confluence of different idea seems to …
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