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An Eclectic Journal of Opinion, History, Poetry and General Bloviating
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
In My Chicago Summer of '68 The Run Up to the Big Event--Part II of a Murfin Memoir
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Roosevelt University on Michigan Avenue in the Auditorium Building was home of the Free University where I took a class with Staughton Lyn...
The U.S. Finally Paid Reparation to War Time Internees Too Little Too Late.
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From George Takei's graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy. On August 10, 1988, more than 45 years after the start of internment, the Un...
Monday, August 10, 2026
A Prayer for Ordinary People Revisited—Murfin Verse from 2012
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Norm Siegel, The Old Man, Dave Drayer, Andy Cohen, Cheryl Niemo, and Andy Andrick led the audience of Just Plain Folk--Ordinary People ...
Sunday, August 9, 2026
Free Soilers Failed as a Third Party and Prospects for Successful New Ones now are Dim
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An anti-Free Soil cartoon shows party leaders as warlocks brewing up a poison pot. Note --You would think the political chaos of the secon...
Saturday, August 8, 2026
It Was Hoopla and Bewilderment in Chicago for Picasso’s Gift
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Unveiling the Picasso in Daley Center Plaza in 1967 drew a crowd of gaw...
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