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Words about Jimmy Kimmel, Trump’s ear and the Iraq War
What do they have in common? Distortions, fakery and naked, explosive lies. Naked, in the sense that we all can see them but somehow they continue to be repeated as fact. I didn’t hear what Jimmy Kimmel said, but I … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, Culture, Government, Guns in the U.S. of A., How I Learned The Facts of Life, Journalism, MAGA, News media, political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, War
Tagged "All The President's Men", "Shock and Awe", Charlie Kirk, Colin Powell, Daily News, Dick Cheney, Disney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Jimmy Kimmel, Knight-Ridder, MAGA, New York Times, Rob Reiner, Saddam Hussein, Trump "assassination" attempt, Tyler Robinson, Washington Post, Watergate, weapons of mass destruction
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“The Island at the Center of the World” explains my center
I went to college in Ohio, far enough from my family home in New Rochelle that without Skype, Zoom, email, whatever, weekend visits were not possible. Ergo, from early September through Thanksgiving of that year, I had been away from … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Immigration, Journalism, The Facts of Life
Tagged "The Island at the Center of the World", Dutch Manhattan, Manhattan Island, Oberlin College, Russell Shorto
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What is “libertarian” about denying our voting rights?
That depends what you imagine “libertarianism” is. I, for one, began wondering about it years ago and have analyzed my way into carving it into bits here, in this blog. I attacked it (and attached it) as a code word … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Journalism, MAGA, political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged "Democracy in Chain", Environmental Protection Agency, industrial pollution, James McGill Buchanan, Koch Brothers, Koch Machine, libertarianism, Love Canal, MAGA, Marshall S Shapo, Nancy MacLean, New York Times Book Review, Tea Party, the radical right
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