As one reader posted yesterday, there’s a lot of blogging going on for a hunger strike (see prior post “Hunger Strike – Day One” June 16-10). He’s right. Perhaps there have been some soda crackers consumed. MRM (disclosure – my first extended professional media contract was in the summers of 1982-84 with Sailing News, produced
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