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October 2012 in Black Lamb

Volume 10, Number 10 — October 2012

October 1st, 2012

The All-Politics Issue

In October's All-Politics issue of Black Lamb, editor Terry Ross proposes a return to the principle of fairness in society. In www.stopthefreeride.gov, John M. Daniel offers a taxation plan that would solve everything. Dan Peterson remembers the Chilean coup of 1973 in The revolution was televised.

In Potty mouth, Rod Ferrandino details nasty presidential campaigns of history. Toby Tompkins isolates the biggest political player of all in King Mammon. In Politics is the art of the possible, Ed Goldberg once again deplores right wingers. Elizabeth Fournier discusses environmentally clean burial in Politics of death? Green. Mark McLaughlin reviews two books on Alexander the Great in Boy, man, monster. In Writer/statesman Owen Alexander salutes Gore Vidal as the nearest thing we have to this species in America. A Politics Quiz offers ten famous quotes and asks you to name the speakers.

Our Honorary Black Lambs column welcomes James Boswell and Eugene O'Neill into our pantheon of literary greats. Bridge writer Trixie Barkis celebrates the best player among presidents, Dwight Eisenhower. Our monthly lamb recipe is a Chinese dish called Emperor's Lamb. Millicent Marshall answers readers' questions. And Professor Avram Khan presents another difficult word puzzle.

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