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By A.W. Maris / Special to the OB Rag

“Too long a sacrifice

Can make a stone of the heart

O when may it suffice?” – W.B. Yeats

You don’t see the signs. Especially in these times of gaiety lost amongst an otherwise grey and somber season.

I see before me photographs of a sprinkling of my wife’s ashes soaking in the sand along the shore in…

By Melissa McEwan / Shakesville / January 10, 2011 Both sides are, in fact, not “just as bad,” when it…

We were doing some wordpress (code is poetry) training on the live site. Not a good idea. So it’s either…

By Paul Krugman / The New York Times / January 9, 2011 When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were…

By J. Christensen Has the vitriolic political rhetoric of the last decade laid the foundation for the tragedy in Tucson?…

Originally posted April 21, 2010 I began writing this nearly a week ago, on Tax Day, April 15th, as thousands…

Since I started this column a few months ago, I have concentrated upon the quirky, the intriguing, the aesthetically pleasing….

I was a nine year old about 63 and a half years ago, growing up around Speedway and Stone in…

by Corey Dade / NPR / January 9, 2011 The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has raised concerns about…

There is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange. Spiders do not have moveable mouth parts. Defenestration…

At the end of the news day for Saturday, January 8th, 2011, here’s more that is known or has come out – and this is as of 6 pm PST :

* The Sheriff of Tucson and Pima County, AZ, believes that today’s shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, did not act alone, and authorities are currently searching for a second male, a “person of interest.” Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said all this at a Tucson news conference tonight – which was broadcast via Keith Olbermann’s Special on the tragic events.

* There was a total of nineteen victims from today’s mass shooting at a Tucson Safeway. 6 died – five at the scene and one at a hospital – a little girl of 9 years.