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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.

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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Dark Ages EPA: An Unforgivable Politicization of Science

Dark Ages EPA: An Unforgivable Politicization of Science

November 17, 2019 By V.B. Price 6 Comments

The Trump administration is trying to consign environmental science to a Dark Age of political dogma.

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Three Poems from The High Alone

Three Poems from The High Alone

November 11, 2019 By V.B. Price 2 Comments

For those of us living in joy in spite of our selves.

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Free Tuition for Higher Education: Helping a Great People Get the Best for Themselves

Free Tuition for Higher Education: Helping a Great People Get the Best for Themselves

November 3, 2019 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

The more opportunity we give our industrious, resilient people, the better chance at maximizing our unique gifts as New Mexicans.

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