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“All Men Are Trash” (Don’t Judge a Book By Its Title): My Interview with Gina Ranalli — Mickey Z.
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(image courtesy of Gina Ranalli) Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 18, 2021 The last time I interviewed Gina Ranalli was all the way back in August 2008. I opened that article like this: “Upon first contact with Gina, it was instantly clear that we were kindred spirits.” Well, we’ve drifted in and out of each other’s lives over the ensuing years but that assessment still stands. In fact, it st ...
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Wake-Up Call: Stop Telling People to “Wake-Up” — Mickey Z.
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Zuccotti Park, the site of the original Occupy Wall Street: September 30, 2011 (Photo: Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 15, 2021 The past year has provided us with no shortage of stanc ...
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Mom Got Her Chain Snatched, Dad Drove on the Sidewalk, I Learned Plenty — Mickey Z.
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(Photos courtesy of Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 12, 2021 (This article is timed to be released on January 12 — 13 years to the day since my mother died and three years to the day ...
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5 Ways to Feel Spiritual Even If “Spirituality” is Not Your Thing — Mickey Z.
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Photo: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. — Now With Purpose January 11, 2021 For the record, there is an official definition of spiritual: “Relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material ...
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"Because Science" Can Be a Dangerous Argument - Here's Why — Mickey Z.
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Screenshot from teechip.com Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 8, 2021 “Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.” (George Bernard Shaw) This article is not any of the following: “A ...
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Lockdowns Devastate Yemen (and the Third World), But YOU Can Help — Mickey Z.
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Abdo, aged 4, with his uncle Yahya in Al Sadaqah hospital. Abdo passed away on December 3, 2020 from the effects of severe acute malnutrition. (Courtesy of Giles Clarke/U.N. Office for the Coordinati ...
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What I Learned at the Laundromat — Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 4, 2021 For more than eight years, I did my wash in the same laundromat. Called “Sparkle Plenty,” it was a relic. It first opened in 1973 and appeared a ...
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What Will Your 2021 MixTape Sound Like? — Mickey Z.
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(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 30, 2020 There was a time when I was a very popular mixtape maker. (Mixtape = “a compilation of favorite pieces of music, typically by different ...
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How the Richest Man in the World Made Us Trust the COVID Vaccine — Mickey Z.
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(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World New Trust December 27, 2020 Preface: In August 2020, I wrote an article entitled, “Can a 'Warp Speed' COVID-19 Vaccine Be Safe?” It covers a lot of ground and if yo ...
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Be a Good Neighbor: 5 Reminders About Community — Mickey Z.
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Photo: Jon Tyson (Unsplash) Mickey Z. — Now With Purpose December 24, 2020 “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community ...
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9 Movies and Songs to Steel Us for 2021 — Mickey Z.
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YouTube screenshot from Rocky (1976) Mickey Z. — Now With Purpose December 21, 2020 2020 is not done with us yet. We are divided and exhausted and focused on the present. Yet, we have to simultaneous ...