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The answer to the central question of our lives

Why? Why the craziness ever since November 2016? Over the past seven years, I’ve spent considerable time trying to figure out why anybody I knew would vote for Trump. And I came up with quite a few scientific and quasi-scientific … Continue reading →

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Lying is performance art

Years ago, against my prejudice, I allowed a friend to drag me to a species of — oh, that’s not fair — an event called performance art. (Why were we sitting in the front row?) My pre-judgment had been right. … Continue reading →

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“Woke” Chronicles: Donald Trump said something that grabbed me

Not what you think and not where you think. It came when his videotaped bizarre deposition in the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit was shown on various media. It was remarkably disgusting, even for Trump, when he robotically claimed yet again, … Continue reading →

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