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I used to love the New York Times, read the Guardian (The Debate)

I read the New York Times frequently in college, and on and off since then. I had it delivered for a while, until I had to call every time it didn't come, and that was too frequent. I was going to quit it, after the initial deal, but they kept me on with the same deal.  This is the final straw for me.  I've been consistently disappointed with it's bothsidesism lately. The regularly run op ed articles explaining why Trump would be a great choice instead of the monster he is, instead of how his campaign is sinking, how he was the worst president ever. I'm reading the article about Harris making Trump her bitch in the debate, and then I come across this: "In recent weeks, as the burst of enthusiasm around Ms. Harris’s candidacy has tempered, the questions about her policy positions and plans have grown. Very few were answered Tuesday night." Are you serious? Harris has more answers on policy than Trump will ever have, and she actually has policies to address prob...

Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge got turned onto reading Slaughterhouse 5 like I did ( source ). She likes poetry too, "Pablo Neruda might be my favorite, the one who started me out. But also May Sarton, Adrienne Rich, Rilke, Rumi." Also Byron, Yeats, and Keats, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Carolyn Forché and Mary Oliver. I'm going through a Mary Oliver phase. Never read Carolyn Forché .  The Country Between Us is her top book on Goodreads.