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A Battle Cry for the Unpolled
That’s me. Is that you, too? Haven’t received a pollster call in years and years. But I do want to mention I receive calls from one or another woman on behalf of the Republican National Committee. Although I’m fascinated by … Continue reading
Posted in Government, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, voting rights, War
Tagged Aram Khatchaturian, Election Day, election polling, election pollsters, Republican National Committee, Soviet Composers Union, Soviet formalism, SPAM-RISK, Wikipedia, Zhdanov Decree of 1948
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Three books that changed my life. For a few minutes. (Each.)
My screedy thing involving The Communist Manifesto and how it influenced me deeply, for a couple of days, reminded me of two other books which affected me longer, but not forever. In my early 20’s I was drawn to the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, How I Learned The Facts of Life, The Facts of Life
Tagged Communist Manifesto, cyclothymic personality disorder, Erich Fromm, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Odesa, The Art of Loving, Ukraine
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The craziest and scariest thing about Trump?
It was stated simply by Dan Coats, the former director of national intelligence under Trump, in a horrifying New York Times piece by its own Editorial Board: “To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks. … Continue reading
Posted in Indicting Trump, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Dan Coats, New York Times, sociopathy, Trump's lies
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