Lawyer, poet, short story writer, storyteller, father of two boys, Irishman, sorta-Buddhist, believer in the Sainthood of Allen Ginsburg.

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learning (and then telling) the truth.

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too damn much.

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don't play with guns.

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to play with guns.

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the births of my sons.

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gotta.

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reading: A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth); watching: Saving Grace (religion and Holly Hunter; how can you beat that combination?); listening to "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse. ("They're gonna make me go to rehab, I said 'no,no, no...").

My first job ...

shoe factory line worker.

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probably still to come.

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Gandhi, Dr. King, Nelson Mandela and Thurgood Marshall

Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History Identifying the assassin of JFK

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Of course, it does not matter. Indeed, at the end, we won't know because we can't know.

Conspiracies exist in the minds of the populace for one simple reason: WE FEAR OUR OWN DEATHS. It is the comfort myth, the promise that chaos can be held at bay. And there is no greater manifestation of chaos than the simple fact the each of us, no matter how great, how gifted, how important, can be obliterated in a single instance, by heart attack, aneurysm, the truck we don't look out for or - as with Kennedy - the lone whacko with Marine level sniper training crouching behind boxes in a school book...

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