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Cast of Characters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Squirrel(s) the king and queen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steller’s Jays the bishops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crows the rooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pigeons the Knights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rest – junkos and chickadees – are pawns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the wren ignores them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While watching these birds I have been listening to a beautiful album<\/a> out of Turkey, heartbroken over the election outcome last Sunday. I will never understand why women – a solid block of traditionally religious women helped Erdogan’s victory – vote against their self interest and for a society that oppresses them (and any dissenter) in nefarious ways. I will never understand why the left manages to eat its own rather than to unite (or unite too late) against a common foe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cast of Characters: Squirrel(s) the king and queen. Steller’s Jays the bishops. Attack: Crows the rooks. Pigeons the Knights. The rest – junkos and chickadees – are pawns. And the wren ignores them all. 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