Read New Modern American Prose by Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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I am, therefore I THINK

1993:

Editor’s Note (from the 10/93 issue of cc&d magazine)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 1993 Editor’s Note from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 1993 Editor’s Note from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

1996:

Life, Liberty and Blocks of Cheese
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Working in your Spare Time
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1997:

Government Inefficiency
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2004:

2005:

magazine editorials:

Cindy Sheehan’s 16^th Minute of Fame
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(Terri Schiavo) Deciding our Life and Death
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Does Rainforest Cafe Love the Rainforest?

2006:

magazine editorials:
Child Molestors & JonBenet Ramsey

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Choose Your Theory: Science or God

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Do Protests Equal Violence?
Election Hell & Gossip Galore

Failure to Implement Basic Safety
(Even When Creative With Our Ideas...)

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If I Did It: Justifying the Morally Reprehensible
(about O.J. Simpson’s book about what his double murder “might” have been like)

Hillary Clinton Losing Her Chance at the Presidency
Proving the Existence of Jesus
Putting Up Walls Is Never the Solution
Shoving our “good life” down the enemy’s throats
The Columbine Connection And a love affair with violence

The world Knows You
(about the NSA and privacy issues)

Understanding Global Warming

the Vegetative State, part II
So what defines when someone’s alive?

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2007:

magazine editorials:

Abortion, Eugenics, and the Line of Life

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Al Capone caught for tax evasion;
O. J. Simpson caught for robbery

Anna Nicole Smith
the Fascination with the embodiment of all of America’s Stereotypes

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Are We Safe Yet?

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Clinton, the Black Contingency & the Political Machine
the real chance for a President that’s not a white man

A Different Light on the Global Warming Debate

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Defining Human Life
an Austrialia Supreme Court deciding if a chimpanzee is a human being

Diffusing our Dependence

Finding alternatives in plants and food for sources of fuel and bioenergy so Americans are not so dependent on middle Eastern oil while we try to be better for the environmen.

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Does the Internet Equal the End of reading?
relying on the Internet & cable news 7 not the newspaper

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Employment & Independence Issues
problems for getting jobs: due to race, religion... or youth

Eye on the Sky... and Eye on Politics
how astronomy and politics really have a history together

Fear... Generated by the 24-hour News Stations
evidence from both the liberal media and more right-wing news stations

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FOX Wants to Legally Lie

FOX News fired two reporters for not lying in their story, then FOX got away with firing them because they used the Frst Amendment with freedom of speech to say they can lie in the news if they want to

Global Warming: reports from Chicago to China?
looking for climate correction from at home in Chicago all the way to China

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Hitler as a Minister
Witnessing Similarities between Nazism and Religion

I Don’t Know What I Was Betting On

If I Exploited It
the Ron Goldman family Trying a turn a buck on O. J. Sompson murdering a family member

Making Sense out of the Economy

Paying for Canceling Cancer?
the potential and the fear of halting most cervical cancer —
and the cost of “forcing” it down young girl’s throats

The Countdown to the Presidency

Like being at a carnival where there is a row of ducks moving along a line and you’re supposed to hit them to win a prize, they all look the same, See how as the Primaries draw closer, everyone starts acting more and more alike.

This Story’s Heating Up:
The Effects of Global Warming

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U.S. Healthcare & Canadian Healthcare
That’s the beauty of Capitalism: you pay for what you get (and that’s how it should be)

Wanting To Stop Global Warming?
Well, think again... because life causes global warming

When Power (and Weather) Become Your Enemy

2008:

magazine editorials:

Barack Obama winning the Presidency on November 4^th
writings from the morning through the evening 11/04/08
from this Chicagoan on Barack Obama’s becoming the President Elect

Biofuels are Bad for the Environment
It Look Like We’re Hurting You, But We’re Only Trying To Help You —
how biofuels raise the price of food globally and actually hurt the environment

Can Outer Space Research Lead us to Fuel on Earth?

Capturing the Wild for our Entertainment

Fearing the Candidacy Reaper
trying to make sense of the Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama
Democrat Presidential nomination process

Free Healthcare and the Poor

How Did We Get into this Mess?
Guessing why jobs went overseas
and CEOs made millions... legally

Staying In or Pulling Out
when the U.S. should get out of Iraq

the Presidential Election and Chicago Politics

Too Many Laws

What’s in your Water?
a philosophy monthly article about not only drugs but also feces in your water

Which 3^rd Party Candidate will spoil
the chances for Which Major Candidate?
Now a Libertarian candidate for President may make the Republican nominee struggle, verses Ralph Nader and the Green Party making it difficult for the Democratic candidate

2009:

magazine editorials:

the Creation Explanation
defining what creates what

Economic Rantings
(I thought it would be better with a new President...)

My Afternoon with Jerry Springer

My Personal Chicago Tea Party

The Cost of Compassion Might Be Too High

The Loss of A Gorgeous Giant Planet
The loss of the Saturn is a loss of safety, financial savings... and sanity
A 2009 editorial about bailout #2 of GM and Chrysler

The Seriousness of Sexual Attacks
and dangers from the minority
an ediotrial about the rape of women and false rape charges

What’s that Spell? Socialism!

2010:

magazine editorial:

Who is on a Crusade here?

2011:

magazine final thoughts:

the Real Messages in News Stories
an editorial about the deportation of an anchor baby, while illegal Guatemalan parents are not deported

2013:

Letters from the Editor

Choices we Make
a “Letter from the Editor” about vegetarianism

Coming to Peace after so much Distrust
a “Letter from the Editor” to President Obama about stagnancy in the U.S. government