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To the Devil with Your Hate "Greg, they're going to hate you for writing this," said my neighbor and confidante. Yes, that's the issue I'm addressing, hate. All are capable of it. Some dress theirs in pure white linen, clasped by crucifix or crescent moon, while others... ( added 13 days 11 hours ago.)

Key West Fantasy Fest Parade, Where Art is People Even as my blistered, sandaled feet were recovering from the long Key West walk on Friday evening, I decided to hit the Fantasy Fest parade, the grand finale. I parked my van at the parking area off Higgs Beach and bicycled the rest of the way to... ( added 19 days 3 hours ago.)

Try A Little Harder Although I haven't contributed to SearchWarp as frequently as I once did, in fact I write every day for other venues, namely, school. Check the "Questions for You" page, where members are asking some pretty good questions. More than a few are... ( added 39 days 11 hours ago.)

In Response to Objections to Objections To Health Care Reform I am unapologeticaly liberal, and I really admire Tex Norman's brand of politics, so I don't want this to be read as a personal attack on the defenders of Health Care Reform.. But, I have some serious concerns with what might be passed, and I base... ( added 48 days 4 hours ago.)

Leveraging Hurricanes I have a bleeding heart, that I could never hide for long. I should have been a lawyer, so that I could defend the downtrodden, whether they are downtrodden by their government, or by people who have lost their soul. A 54 year old... ( added 85 days 9 hours ago.)

Rembrance of Senator Edward Kennedy (original photo by Gregory G. Lewis, taken from the floor of the Worcester Centrum during the 2006 Massachusetts Democratic Convention.) As a long time Massachusetts residence, I have had a few opportunities to see Sen. Kennedy in person. The... ( added 86 days 8 hours ago.)

Minutes of the Two Headed Man's Farewell Press Conference OLD KEY WEST ARMORY, WHITE ST. Friday, June 26, 2009. 7:05 P.M. "I thank the Studios of Key West for allowing me to speak in the old Key West Armory tonight, as I thank members of our local press for attending, and also my dear family... ( added 138 days 4 hours ago.)

David Carradine Found Dead http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/actor-david-carradine-found-dead-bangkok-ap David Carradine was found dead, hanged, in a Thailand hotel room. I can name, off the top of my head, three meaningful influences that shaped the... ( added 168 days 13 hours ago.)

Jesus: A Matter of Mind Easter is a holiday I cherish on a personal level, and is a great theme to write about. Very popular, too, I see by the numbers ofwritings on the subject. It seems like ages since I've written an article for this community. I've always been... ( added 222 days 22 hours ago.)

Key West New Year's There are worse things than being marooned in Key West on New Year's. Since I saw some of the debauchery on a Millenium television special in 2000, where a drag queen called Sushi was lowered from a balcony in a giant red slipper I longed to be at... ( added 323 days 3 hours ago.)

What of Cuba? Last year I interviewed two Massachusetts women who had joined a Pastors for Peace mission to Cuba. They were accompanied by a busload of missionaries carrying computers, food, clothes and other goods intended for the Cuban people. Technically... ( added 1 year 3 days ago.)

Florida Keys a la Cart Florida Keys in a shopping cart There I was in Miami-Dade County, where all eyes were scrutinizing the ballot lines, anxious for indicators of outrage. This was the historic 2008 Presidential Election, and I failed in my duty to report on it.... ( added 1 year 10 days ago.)

South Beach weekend Ocean Drive , Saturday, November 1. With the sun out from behind the clouds most of the day, the air is hot. The aquamarine sea pulses with whitecaps; swimmers and surfers bob on the surface like marooned coconuts. Every day is a new adventure... ( added 1 year 17 days ago.)

Art deco, entre The wind was fierce in the hill towns of Massachusetts at 4:00, Wednesday morning. The snow had pretty much stopping, leaving only a couple inches on the ground and a bitter chill in the black morning air. Albany, one-and-a-half hours away had... ( added 1 year 20 days ago.)

When Nobody Knows Nothing When nobody really knows anything, that's the most likely time nobodies like me will say a lot of nothing. As the election season draws to a close, it's trite and redundant to point out what we already know, which is that people will say anything... ( added 1 year 25 days ago.)

Krugman's Optimism National Public Radio's weekdays Fresh Air show is a long-time favorite. Its host Terry Gross conducts interviews with some of the most high profile personalities you will ever hear. To be sure, I'm not a sycophant, but Gross has done an... ( added 1 year 28 days ago.)

Professor Carse On Religion and Belief Of all my profile interviews, the most stimulating was a series conducted with James Carse, of Rowe, Massachusetts. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, Carse is the retired Professor Emeritus of Religion at New York University. Our in-person... ( added 1 year 30 days ago.)

The Baseball Oracle Remember Pollyanna's optimistically philosophical, "The Glad Game"? Oh, come on, you can at least murmur to yourself you watched it when you were a kid, we won't tell. In a nutshell, the objective of the Glad Game was to find a silver lining in an... ( added 1 year 31 days ago.)

Last call for Massachusetts The title of this article has to do with me, directly, and Massachusetts only incidentally. In less than two weeks I'll be leaving Massachusetts for the Sunshine State of Florida. In the mean time, I can still report on happenings in the Bay State... ( added 1 year 33 days ago.)

Infinite Capacity For Outrage Now I know I'm not crazy. From the B section of today's Berkshire Eagle, a story about a cable company that dropped a broadcast station from their October line-up: "Time Warner officials say they shouldn't have to pay for a signal that is... ( added 1 year 35 days ago.)

We win - a tribute to Paul Krugman Princeton University Professor of Economics Paul Krugman was awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize in Economics for his contributions to the understanding of global trade. I was listening to Krugman speaking in a radio interview, saying he didn't... ( added 1 year 37 days ago.)

The Least Important Thing I spent my Columbus Day evening with my recently grown-up daughter, mostly at Barnes & Noble Book Store over coffee (the regular kind) and later, some books on jewelry, art and bead making, another of the pastimes for which I have no present time.... ( added 1 year 37 days ago.)

The Enchantment W hen I was a young boy my mother took my brothers and I to a wilderness refuge in southern California called Neil Park. There were hills and a small rushing brook. There were jackrabbits and great horned owls that swooped upon us as we rode... ( added 1 year 40 days ago.)

A Bookstore Bestiary I am addicted to books. Not so much reading them as collecting them from used bookstores. I've catalogued and road mapped used bookstores across Upstate New York and New England, and have even standardized a used bookstore aesthetics protocol. One... ( added 1 year 40 days ago.)

The Wasp and Me I think I must be getting lonely. I have a new pet wasp in my bedroom; I call her Hudson, after W.H. Hudson, who wrote a 1905 essay titled Wasps, extolling them as one of the more intelligent insect genus. In the case of Hudson (my wasp) I think... ( added 1 year 42 days ago.)