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Richard Grayson is the author of several books of short stories, including With Hitler in New York (1979), Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1982), I Brake for Delmore Schwartz (1983), I Survived Caracas Traffic (1996), The Silicon Valley Diet (2000), Highly Irregular Stories (2006), And To Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street (2006) and Who Will Kiss the Pig? (2010). The recipient of the New York Arts Club Fellowship in Fiction at the 1977 Bread Loaf Writers? Conference, three Individual Artist Fellowships in Literature from the Florida Arts Council and a New York State Council on the Arts Writer-in-Residence Award, Grayson has also published nonfiction in The New York Times, Newsday, People, The San Jose Mercury News, The Orlando Sentinel, The Hollywood Sun-Tattler, The Arizona Republic and other periodicals. Grayson has been a staff attorney in social policy at the Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Director of Academic Resources at the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University. He has taught at Fordham University, City University of New York, Long Island University, Arizona State University, The School of Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, Florida Atlantic University and other colleges. Grayson?s diary entries going back to 1969 have appeared as regular features on the websites of Thought Catalog and McSweeney's. Grayson was the 2014 Democratic nominee in Wyoming?s At-Large Congressional District and been on the ballot in general elections for Congress in Arizona as the candidate of the Green Party, the Americans Elect Party, and the No Labels Party. In 1982, advocating giving horses the right to vote. he finished second in an election for the Town Council in Davie, Florida, He is currently a 2026 Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate from Alaska.
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Discussion of Trump renamings and idolatry in Washington and comparison to tinpot dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, the post-Soviet ruler of Turkmenistan. Is the USA just another banana republic with a self-mythologizing dictator?
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