Tag: Al Gore

  • 78 Days: Time Loops

    78 Days: Time Loops

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    Erik Moe
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    Much of Nick Flynn’s new memoir This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire concerns the childhood trauma in the title. Late in the book he compares his lifelong revisiting of this trauma — and the mistakes he’s made in his life that seem to be related to his obsession with it — to the…

  • 98 Days: Flip A Coin

    98 Days: Flip A Coin

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    Erik Moe
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    In the 100 days leading up to the election of 2000, I was living in South Minneapolis, working as a barista downtown and attending classes part-time at the University of Minnesota.  The conversation at the coffeeshop and on campus was a cynical one. The salacious Bill Clinton impeachment spectacle turned some off from politics altogether. Others…