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This Land Is Your Land: A Tribute To Bernie Sanders

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Friday January 29, 2016 · 10:04 AM PST

2016/01/29 · 10:04

Vermonters sing a song to Bernie.

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Smoking Prejudice

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Friday December 08, 2006 · 8:13 AM PST

2006/12/08 · 08:13

I was nine years old when the Surgeon General's report on smoking appeared in 1964. When I was 14 I tried smoking cigarettes for about two weeks, and then "quit," in quotes because I probably never smoked enough to become addicted. When I found out that Barack Obama smoked cigarettes I was surprised; he seemed so squeaky clean, well spoken, and... intelligent. How could he be a smoker? It is unnerving to discover ones own prejudice, in this case about smokers, and so here I examine my present attitude in hopes of understanding why Obama's smoking bothers me, and whether it should.

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