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Human animal news! The good, the bad and the weird
From Harper’s Weekly Review: The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, learned how to fill a pothole; the mayor of New York City announced that the city had filled more than 100,000 potholes since he took office in January; and in Johannesburg, … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, Medical care in the US, News media
Tagged potholes, RFK Jr
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It’s so wearying, isn’t it?
Each morning as I wake up, I wonder how close we have gotten to the finality of this slow-motion collapse — not of our civilization but of the small, uncivilized cluster of lunatics who have gnawed their way into our … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, Culture, Government, MAGA, News media, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged Mordor, Reconstruction, Trump, Trump administration, Trump cabal
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The eternal liberal wisdom of PlantyPall
I wasn’t thinking about politics when recently I re-read Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels. I was considering the emotional risk in revisiting favorite fiction. To wit: I was in turbulent adolescence when I first read Wuthering Heights, so naturally Heathcliff became … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Culture, Government, Politics, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers, War
Tagged "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "The Prime Minister", Anthony Trollope, Congress, conservatism, Duke of Omnium, Eric Bogle, Gallipoli, Heathcliff, June Tabor, liberalism, Parliament, Plantagenet Palliser, PlantyPall, The Duke's Children, The Palliser Novels, World War I, Wuthering Heights
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