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US Entrepreneurs Drool Over Cuba

“We have the opportunity to increase the likelihood that Cuban people have greater liberties and freedom with the ability to connect with them,” said sponsor…

Cap & Clear-Cut

It figured to be another evening of adulation for Jerry Brown in Paris: Standing alongside governors of states and provinces from throughout Brazil, Mexico, and…

Penn & El Chapo

I love Hollywood – the film industry. I really do. In rain or shine, good or bad times, it’s given me a living off and…

Worse Than 1860

The lost story-line amid the food-fights and boasting contests that the “debates” have turned into is the destruction being wreaked on the two major parties…

Monsieur Russell

My friend Mark Russell recently sent me a photograph taken fifty-four years ago at a pullout on the Tioga Road halfway between Yosemite Valley and…

The Stony Lonesome: Role Models

Oh, look! Wake Your Fat Ass Up! America is doing yet another segment about the unrealistic expectations of physical beauty propagated by the media and…

What’s In A Name?

A lot of nutty things appear in the AVA's “online comments” section, and we might want to include this one under that heading. The idle…

Sophomoric Violence & Onanistic Self-Love

After the warmest North American December on record, Old Man Winter has finally made his appearance in Upstate New York. With the natural world in…

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