Tag Archives: Trump

Contemplating cruelty

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Naomi

I haven’t been able to watch much of the trial. After I saw a man weep on the witness stand, I turned the TV off. Chauvin’s icy sadism, indelibly recorded on that terrible video, twisted my insides. (As a former … Continue reading →

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The Mother of All Metaphors: the Wall

Posted on March 22, 2021 by Naomi

It pretty much took my breath away, this New York Times article on the former guy’s infamous wall. I know, I know, we’re living in an era of constant metaphors. Everything is a metaphor for something else. But this, this … Continue reading →

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Andrew Cuomo, and all that

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Naomi

How many layers of experience, knowledge and memory have I been peeling off myself since I first read about the allegations against Andrew Cuomo? They remind me, as such allegations always will, of the many similar and worse instances in … Continue reading →

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