Showing posts with label Our Lives in a Time of Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Lives in a Time of Trump. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2020

Who will Trump's cultists blame when they finally understand they've been conned?

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(Be aware:  NAC is going away soon ) Donald Trump's entire "career" in and out of politics has been one long, sustained confi...
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

The Second Time Around.

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When you elect grifters to manage a country, don't be surprised if they set the dumpster on fire and walk away with their pockets stuf...
Sunday, September 06, 2020

American Idiot.

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Taibbi's analysis is brilliant. Pogo's Axiom has never died: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." The Trump Era Su...
Friday, August 28, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Structural racism, white fragility, and my old school.

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In my previous life as a thoughtful and periodically fashionable essayist, one forever attuned to local foibles and frivolity, there’d be...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Miracle Man.

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Religion and politics intersect at the point of power , and how best to keep it. Hypocrisy only seems to be the inevitable consequence. ...
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Friday, July 31, 2020

The Way We Were.

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Lately I'm reminded of why I declined to attend my 40th high school reunion in 2018. Maybe I'm finally ready to be honest about i...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

Why 'destroying the suburbs' should be a Republican idea -- also, the Growth Ponzi Scheme revisited.

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Exhibit 456-90-2020 in our series, "Nothing In America Makes Sense." 'Destroying the suburbs' should be a Republican...
Monday, June 08, 2020

Collaboration: "Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?"

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Wolfgang Leonhard and Markus Wolf were from similar backgrounds. Both were privileged members of the East German Communist ruling class. ...
Friday, June 05, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: There, there. People are dying, so you may have to wait until 2021 for your pork chop sandwich.

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Who ever thought that forty years of narrow selfish leadership of academic, corporate, and political institutions would lead to a populat...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Just a damn rant about "democracy grief."

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It's a bit confounding to watch as Americans like Ms. Goldberg mourn something that barely ever existed. I've no use whatever for...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Losing basketball games to dogs, or why "This Is Going to Get Worse."

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Burmila's thoughts are angry, gloomy, dark and largely accurate -- and the melancholy isn't confined to Trumpism. This is Goin...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

At least he's stunningly consistent: "Tom Friedman Has No Idea What He’s Talking About."

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I first became aware of Thomas L. Friedman when my pal Barrie and I read From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989), which described Friedman's...
Monday, May 20, 2019

"Nineteen Eighty-Four remains the book we turn to when truth is mutilated, when language is distorted, when power is abused, when we want to know how bad things can get."

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The book is The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 , and The Guardian offers a preview. Nothing but the truth: th...
Friday, November 23, 2018

"Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict."

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I'll be perfectly honest with you. My 40th high school reunion took place earlier this year. I had a previous commitment one of the...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9: "The film is as much about how the left and the media have failed us as it is about the dangers of Trump."

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I'll pay to watch it. Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease , by Sophia A. McClennen...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: A heartbreaking work of staggering asininity.

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Today's column is occasioned by National Review's Jonah Goldberg, whose writing style I admire although his political worldview i...