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How Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry or Barack Obama could be the next President. So could you.

Yesterday, in “Nancy Pelosi Should Not Be President: The law of presidential succession is broken, and it ought to be fixed immediately” (The New York Times, 11/4/19) (SEE AT END),

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Talker of the Town

“The love ($) you get is equal to the love ($) you give” — adapted from John Lennon

Remember the Eddie Meath Penny Fund? Up to the mid-nineties, the fund — founded by famed broadcaster Eddie Meath — raised money to buy toys for hospitalized children. Eddie gladly

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History

ROCHESTER TAKES A WALK ON THE WILDE SIDE

– Michael J. Nighan An apocryphal story from Jan. 3, 1882 – New York customs agent to arriving ship passenger: “Have you anything to declare?” Oscar Wilde: (wearing a green cloth

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Politics

Trump resigns; squeezed out of White House

Although I wouldn’t really mind if Donald woke up one morning as a shrunken head and a plastic munchkin trapped in a bag made in China, hence forcing him to resign, it’s only an April

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Cultural Life Sports

Street and Smith’s is back and so is Bill Pruitt with “Pennant Race 18: Curses Laid and Lifted”

Last year in Make Predictions. Win cash. we offered 100 dollars to the reader who could most accurately predict the results of the 2017 baseball season. Our friend and contributor Bill

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Cultural Life

Impromptu poetry slam at Lux Lounge

As we have happily gained new readers and as the archives are filling up, from time to time we reach back into Talker past. (BELOW) Coming up on two years now, we went to Lux Lounge for an

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Cultural Life

Fred DouglasS gets his due

Rochester’s Frederick Douglass has been making the news lately. First, President Trump suggested that Douglass might still be alive. While more fake news than not, the suggestion became the

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Cultural Life

Says who you can’t get rich being a writer.

In Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism to reprint “Imperium in Imperio: Sutton Griggs’s Imagined War of 1898”, we explained how a fine academic journal was kindly reprinting our article on the

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Cultural Life

Trump is Perverse, Fight in Verse

In today’s New York Times, Nicholas Kristoff announced the winners of his Donald Trump Poetry Contest. Talker has been accumulating our own share of Trump poems by Rochester poets. Like

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Cultural Life Politics

“Yes, Donald!” by John Roche

You heard from John Roche, RIT professor and poet, right before the election. Then, John hoped his Trump poem series would mercifully come to an end. Alas, not yet. Yes, Donald! You are

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