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I’ve amped up my hunger for vengeance
I finished The Count of Monte Cristo — oddly at the exact moment he and his ploys finished off all his enemies. This was good. So what now? A need for bloody violence was roiling in my gut and precisely … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, Culture, Guns in the U.S. of A., MAGA, Trumpism
Tagged Chamber Music Society, Edmund Dantes, John Wick, The Count of Monte Cristo, vengeance
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Revised terminology: what Muskrump is doing is a “CouPutsch”
It’s not really a coup, but it isn’t entirely a putsch, either. Along with watching and reading the events, I’ve been muddling through this. In doing so, I went back to the earlier post I wrote about this, deriving accurate descriptions … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Crime & Punishment, Fascism, Government, Jan 6, Journalism, Lawyers, MAGA, News media, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Attorneys General, coup d'etat, Democratic Party, MAGAts, Mar-a-Lago, Musk, Oval Office, Perplexity.com, putsch, putz, Trump, White House
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I’ve been feeling oddly vengeful lately. What have I done about it?
Several things, but the big one is…I’m re-reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I’d been evading a re-read for the last several years because I’ve always found the betrayal of Dantès unbearable, even though it stimulates a yearning for what … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Crime & Punishment, Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Edmund Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo
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