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Never Regret: The Stupid Question
Recently, something’s come up: The stupid question. Quite honestly, I ask it a lot — and have since I first started getting sharp as a...
Jason James Barry
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Out of Class: A College Journal, Part 1
Somehow, the upperclass floormate of a girl I hooked up with had called, and invited me to her dorm room. But it felt odd, and rang with...
Jason James Barry
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Not Terror, Not True. Did the FBI Try Punting About Terrorism in New Orleans For Politics?
In the early stages of event unfolding, a truck plowed through a crowd of New Year’s revealers, followed by a police shootout with the...
Jason James Barry
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Vegas Tourney Journey — Stuck in Line at a Starbucks Edition
Special to Great Pacific Review - by Jason James Barry Why do the simplest things never work out so simply? Of course I‘m talking about...
Jason James Barry
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Four Years Gone By: A Pandemic Retrospective
Notifications came from school. Early pick-up. And then, none of us knew what was next. That whole week, I had been stocking up and...
The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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An Arrest of a Cop
Twice now, and more so, I’ve been made privy to old friends or past co-workers who’ve been under arrest. The most recent was a “now...
The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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Our Affinity For Arguing About Gun Violence — While Avoiding Why
The gun violence problem people have been talking about — when did ours begin? I’ve asked this out loud and to myself in the wake of the...
The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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