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V.B. Price has lived in New Mexico since l958, mostly in Albuquerque’s North Valley, writing poetry, journalism and non-fiction. His website is vbprice.com.

Environmental Pollution: An Invisible Kind of Child Abuse

Environmental Pollution: An Invisible Kind of Child Abuse

January 6, 2020 By V.B. Price 2 Comments

Environmental Pollution: An Invisible Kind of Child Abuse

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HAZARDOUS MATERIAL: DO NOT TOUCH

HAZARDOUS MATERIAL: DO NOT TOUCH

December 30, 2019 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

A Poem by V.B. Price. For those of us who hope 2020 vision can see the truth for what it is and change it

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FIVE INNOCENT MERRIMENTS OF BEING IN LOVE AGAIN WITH BEING ALIVE

FIVE INNOCENT MERRIMENTS OF BEING IN LOVE AGAIN WITH BEING ALIVE

December 23, 2019 By V.B. Price 5 Comments

V.B. Price’s Christmas Poem 2019

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Political Advertising As Aversion Therapy

Political Advertising As Aversion Therapy

December 16, 2019 By V.B. Price 3 Comments

We all know that political advertising is a bedeviling form of behavioral psychology gone terribly, terribly wrong. Not that behaviorism was ever a good idea in my book. But now political “conditioning:” has become so gross and stomach turning it’s collapsed into a kind of aversion therapy, creating a nauseating response to itself in most […]

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The American Schism: Two Unreconcilable Views of Human Nature

The American Schism: Two Unreconcilable Views of Human Nature

December 9, 2019 By V.B. Price 3 Comments

The stripping of food assistance for some 800,000 Americans shows the divide of empathy, and common sense, between the left and the right.

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MOONLIGHT SONATA

MOONLIGHT SONATA

December 2, 2019 By V.B. Price 5 Comments

A poem by V.B. Price: For those of us who still believe the inner life of everyone is sacred.

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Public Service Idealism and Scrooge Saboteurs of Clean Water and Public Health

Public Service Idealism and Scrooge Saboteurs of Clean Water and Public Health

November 25, 2019 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

This holiday season, let John F. Kennedy’s environmental conscience bolster our optimism as clean water comes under fire from conservative Scrooges and their corporate shills.

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