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      Award-Winning Playwright, Longtime Common Dreams Contributor Bill C. Davis Dies at 69

      Award-Winning Playwright, Longtime Common Dreams Contributor Bill C. Davis Dies at 69

      Common Dreams Staff
      Mar 04, 2021

      Award-winning playwright, artist, political activist, and veteran Common Dreams contributor Bill C. Davis has died at the age of 69 due to complications from COVID-19.

      According to the Washington Post, Davis' death on February 26 at a care facility in Connecticut was confirmed by his sister, Patricia Marks. The newspaper reports that the celebrated author of numerous plays--including the Tony-nominated "Mass Appeal"--had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last month, shortly after being hospitalized with the coronavirus.

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      Up Against The Hard Break

      Up Against The Hard Break

      Cable news an accomplice to all we have been through these past four years, up to and including January 6, 2021

      Bill C. Davis
      Jan 06, 2021

      Cable news is the default place to watch events, such as the January 6th, 2021 eruption in Washington DC. Apart from bearing witness to the human avalanche flooding the Capitol, we were also subjected to the cliches and shallow phrases being coined on the spot and then repeated by the next hired hand at all cable stations. The insufferable posturing of the well-paid anchors (an ironic appellation for these persons) wears thin quickly. They have been signaling their virtues as they have posed being stunned by the president for four years. In fact, they aren't stunned - or shocked - or speechless, but grateful in their own perverse way. They mug for the camera as they report, "what he has done this time" and under their breath, they thank him for giving them a show for the night.

      Gore Vidal called us - the United States of Amnesia. And this isn't about remembering the Russian or French Revolution. Sure - the extreme disparity between rich and poor sets the stage for a siege of government buildings. Yes - feeling for decades that we do not have representative government can become the parched underbrush for a flash wildfire. The current hysterical analysis is aimed at the spark - this strange, bloated man who spit fire at the dry underbrush, and who is, in truth, not an anomaly. He is a logical conclusion of decades of government distrust, and January 6, 2021 was a flaming whirlwind.

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      An Alternate National Food Mandate

      An Alternate National Food Mandate

      America seems to have a romance with disease.

      Bill C. Davis
      Nov 11, 2020

      Here is my National Mandate. Close all fast-food chains. Put orange cone roadblocks on all Dunkin' Donuts drive-thrus. Ban the sale of Coke and Pepsi. The war was not between those two Colas; it was a war against the human body.

      The masks mask the elephant in the room. No human being can make a potent immune system with a diet of processed food and sugar. This promiscuous virus seems to have a field day with the obese and the immune-compromised. The national and worldwide addiction to sugar presents a feeding frenzy for a virus that, like all viruses, feeds on sugar. Where are the scientists and leaders who can guide the populations of the world to actually combat the virus by starving it and also by strengthening its targets? We are told to behave like boxers in a corner with our gloves up to our faces as we are pummeled.

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