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Category Archives: Commentary
Well-wishes
UPDATE: Sadly, Mr. Drum has died. If fact, he had already passed when I wrote this. Liberal blogger Kevin Drum is very ill. Back in the hey-day of blogging–oh, from roughly 2003 to 2009 or so, at which time Facebook … Continue reading
No answers….
Note: I have edited, and added to, this post several times since it went live. This is because my thoughts on this subject are a mess, and there’s a good chance they present as such in the material below. GRADY: … Continue reading
Letters to Congress, one
I’ve just drafted a letter that I will be printing out and mailing to my Representative tomorrow. I will be doing a lot more of this, and when I do, I will share the texts here. I have plans already … Continue reading
Clarity from Mr. Gibson
America’s right wing is a lot of things. It’s impervious to facts, immune to empathy, and prone to conspiracy theory. It worships wealth and loathes its absence, and it is sexist and racist and homophobic and transphobic. All of these … Continue reading
Never forget:
Everything that is to come is what we wanted. That is all.
Keeping up with the Joneses, and keeping ahead of the Smiths (a repost)
This is a repost of something I wrote nine years ago, occasioned by someone on social media opining how terrible it is for the burger-flippers of the world to be getting a raise someplace while the “first responders” aren’t paid … Continue reading
A few tabs to close….
Here’s some stuff that’s been languishing in open tabs on my browser: :: Matt Zoller Seitz on Clint Eastwood’s current movie, both as a movie and as a data point in how movies are exhibited and marketed these days. The … Continue reading
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The world does not need my voice today
That is all.
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I don’t know, folks. I just don’t know sometimes.
Maybe I’ve mentioned this before, but my father once referred to one of the elections when I was a kid as “a referendum on the American people”. I don’t think that’s ever been more true, because if this is who … Continue reading
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See, that was more of a one-time thing….
I’m not like many Americans when it comes to the “Founding Fathers”. I do not fall a dead-faint at their feet, the way many of my fellow Americans do. I find that sort of thing fairly performative, and I get … Continue reading →