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Michael Dickson: Hacking at some racist trees (Daily Tar Heel Cries from the Peanut Gallery opinion column)
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Thursday, February 20, 2014. Hacking at some racist trees (Daily Tar Heel Cries from the Peanut Gallery opinion column). If a tree celebrates Presidents Day in the forest, does it make a sound? And at what point do we care? I guess it depends if the tree's of voting age? But let's set trees aside for the moment. Does Preside...
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Michael Dickson: September 2013
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Thursday, September 19, 2013. Call me crazy, but then what? Cries from the Peanut Gallery DTH column). So we as a society see someone do something crazy, right? Well, that's insane," we say to ourselves. "Totally senseless." We call it "crazy," and that's descriptive. It describes how alien the action is to us. Here's where ...
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Michael Dickson: August 2013
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Thursday, August 22, 2013. Let's all go play spot the zebra (Cries from the Peanut Gallery DTH column). On lazy afternoons, when I get bored of worrying about the future or forgetting to plan for it, I like to wander down lists of published scientific studies, just waiting until I'm surprised. I recommend it! You see, as I'm...
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Michael Dickson: June 2013
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Friday, June 28, 2013. Instructions for finding yourself (DTH Column Mail Home Edition). One: Open your eyes, look down and verify existence of limbs. Now assess yourself: Count parts, lumps and features. Consider what is and isn't there. These are your limitations - forget them. I'm kidding, but please do. Four: Try everyth...
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Michael Dickson: Repent, heed the end of days (DTH Opinion Column -- Cries from the Peanut Gallery)
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Thursday, April 17, 2014. Repent, heed the end of days (DTH Opinion Column - Cries from the Peanut Gallery). 1 "Hammocking is not permitted in the Arboretum" is something people will tell you from time to time, but I put it in quotes just now because do it anyway. Nature was meant to be (respectfully) lived in, not jealo...
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Michael Dickson: July 2013
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Thursday, July 25, 2013. Quick Hits/Daily Dose (DTH Opinion). Rolling Stone drew severe criticism with its decision to run a charmingly unkempt photo of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its latest cover. It's touchy, I know, but isn't it a bit petty to insist we only run unflattering photos of killers? Roll over for rights.
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Michael Dickson: March 2014
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Thursday, March 20, 2014. A Lenten festivus for the rest of us (Daily Tar Heel Opinion Column - Cries from the Peanut Gallery). It's one of those weird niche holidays that seem to exist only parallel to our mass culture - like Boxing Day, Norwegian Constitution Day and various religious holidays. Also Kwanzaa. And maybe our ...
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Michael Dickson: February 2014
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Thursday, February 20, 2014. Hacking at some racist trees (Daily Tar Heel Cries from the Peanut Gallery opinion column). If a tree celebrates Presidents Day in the forest, does it make a sound? And at what point do we care? I guess it depends if the tree's of voting age? But let's set trees aside for the moment. Does Preside...
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Michael Dickson: April 2013
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Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. An ode to the all-nighters (The Daily Tar Heel op-ed column "Cries from the Peanut Gallery"). There's nothing quite like the feeling you get when you scratch "sleep" off of your to-do list. It's intimidating but liberating - another bodily restraint you've ostensibly freed yourself from. Reality st...
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Michael Dickson: A Lenten festivus for the rest of us (Daily Tar Heel Opinion Column -- Cries from the Peanut Gallery)
http://mikedwriting.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-lenten-festivus-for-rest-of-us-daily.html
Archive of published work. Posts to Check Out. Go home America, you're drunk. The real media and the real fake media. Call me crazy, but then what? Instructions for finding yourself. Thursday, March 20, 2014. A Lenten festivus for the rest of us (Daily Tar Heel Opinion Column - Cries from the Peanut Gallery). It's one of those weird niche holidays that seem to exist only parallel to our mass culture - like Boxing Day, Norwegian Constitution Day and various religious holidays. Also Kwanzaa. And maybe our ...