Oz the Great and Powerful is a humbug. He is neither great nor powerful.
He can give nothing of value to Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion or Dorothy, except perhaps encouragement. Everything that those four gain, they gain on their own with each other’s help.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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