Search all posts
-
Most Recent Posts
Sites of Interest
Category Archives: How I Learned The Facts of Life
Stalin’s “road of bones”
The Sunday, November 22 New York Times main section displayed a striking photograph across the top of the page. It pictured a short section of a two lane highway, the R504 Kolyma Highway, in a remote part of Russia. The … Continue reading
Posted in American fascism, How I Learned The Facts of Life, The Facts of Life
Tagged Andrew Higgins, Kolyma Highway, Kolyma Tales, Stalin, the road of bones, Varlam Shalamov, Yuri Dmitriev
Comments Off on Stalin’s “road of bones”
How I Learned The Fakes of Life: Real Clear Politics
I just picked up this New York Times story by Jeremy Peters on how Real Clear Politics, the web site with political news stories reprinted from a range of newspapers, journals, magazines and internet stuff, has swung sharply right, i.e., … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 presidential campaign, How I Learned The Facts of Life, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trump Stuff
Tagged Jeremy Peters, New York Times, Nicole Hemmer, Real Clear Politics
Comments Off on How I Learned The Fakes of Life: Real Clear Politics
The secret to acquiring herd immunity
Today’s Times re-introduces me to an explosion of online “news networks” which are not news. They’re propaganda. In one of the last chapters of How I Learned The Facts of Life — a summing-up of what kind of fakery would … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 presidential campaign, How I Learned The Facts of Life, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trump Stuff
Tagged Conservative Editions News, Fox News, herd immunity, How I Learned the Facts of Life, Ken LaCorte, Liberal Editions News, local newspapers, New York Times, Nicole Penroth
Comments Off on The secret to acquiring herd immunity