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Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 5, 20166 min read
Pardon Me, Ma'am, Your Planetary Rings Are Poking Me In The Ass
(Cartoon by Jerry Wallace) V I E W P O I N T S Last week, The Dade Planet's readership numbers rocketed! Thousands of people, it seems,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 4, 201613 min read
I Saw The Statue of Liberty Weep (While Smoking a Marlboro): My Brilliant Career as a Liberty Tax Pr
V I E W P O I N T S I published this account in 2015 in The Planet's original avatar as an infrequent blog. I reissue it now on the...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Sep 23, 201610 min read
OMG! IT'S 2016 AND THEY'RE STILL PLAYING BATTLEBALL! (A Long Editorial, or Short Memoir)
V I E W P O I N T S There was a game called battleball that we played at Nash Junior High School in Smyrna, Ga., back when I was a...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 2, 20165 min read
Let There Be "Let There Be Light": Why The Planet Is Publishing This Extremely Interestin&
V I E W P O I N T S Editor's note: Above is the picture of a gospel band I took in spring 2015. The woman at front left is weeping and...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 24, 20166 min read
2016: The Dullest Election Year Ever .... But Kinda Nice, Too
V I E W P O I N T S I live at the center of the universe and I like it! Everybody’s so nice here! That was the epiphany I had at Saturday...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 6, 20165 min read
Trash Talkin': The Trenton Cleanup As a Metaphor For Gummint
When I was a slip of a girl, 20-something and living in Atlanta, my boyfriend, Jerry, and I walked up Stone Mountain one Sunday, as in,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 1, 20162 min read
What You Probably Never Wanted to Know About Political Sex Scandals (But Are Fixin' To Learn An
April Fools Edition Today The Planet pauses from its usual workaday reporting of the great events of the day—tornadoes, tidal waves, the...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 28, 20165 min read
All Quiet On the Dade County Front? You'd Think!
In a place like Dade County, what’s important enough to get on the front page of the newspaper? Anybody who’s ever read a small-town rag...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 9, 20164 min read
Little Issues, Big Ideas, Small Towns—And Did I Mention Pay Phones?
When I moved here from Atlanta in 1990, there were only two grocery stores in Trenton. I was used to 100. Luckily, both the stores we...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Feb 18, 20164 min read
Big Issues and Little Issues That Are Bigger Than They Seem: Welcome to The Planet!
In electing a president this year, America will grapple with the Big Issues: immigration, gun control, climate change, health care,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 7, 20147 min read
Welcome to the Center of the Universe!
My college friend Vivian O’Dell and I reconnected recently via the miracle of Facebook. We hadn’t seen each other since 1980 but she...
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