I, Me, We, and the GOP
It’s not coincidental, I think, that most of the secular and sacred saints we venerate now went charging against the grain of the Municipal We.
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Posts Tagged: firefighters
Fantasy Football for Poets, Week 12
I’m writing about three players who have all quit America’s most popular and visible sport mid-season. Their reasons for quitting are as different as their trajectories, but in each of them, there are shards of a much larger and tragic American story.
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Fire School
I joined the Marfa Volunteer Fire Department six months ago. So far, I have been to zero fires—the West Texas wildfire season doesn’t really pick up until spring—and two fire training courses.
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In Padua, Minnesota, firefighters put out a truck fire that broke out before a St. Patrick’s Day parade. And they did it all while dressed in drag. Witness their flame-destroying, gender-bending heroism, after the jump:
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