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Don Hall

I Believe… [Too Much Absence]

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Don Hall

...that some absence makes the heart grow fonder; too much absence makes the heart forget.

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Don Hall

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BUGHOUSE!

Nov 18, 2024

It’s BACK! Chicago’s most entertaining debate show—Six debaters, three topics, the art of the dialectic!

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Haymarket Pub & Brewery, 737 W. Randolph (the corner of Randolph & Halsted)

Nov 18, 2024

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Don Hall 8/26/21 Don Hall 8/26/21

How About Some Upbeat News for Fuck's Sake?

Among the most shrill in our daily discourse is a small group of Utopians suffering from utopian idealism. Utopians compare the present with what might be called the future perfect, not the past imperfect. Instead of seeing the present as a vast improvement on the past, they see the present as failing to live up to some sort of an imagined utopia.