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Category Archives: Commentary
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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“Concepts of a Plan”
I didn’t watch the debate the other night, but I sure heard about it, and even I had to get in on the meme fun the next day: Apparently when asked for specifics of his plan for American healthcare once … Continue reading
Seasons and their Reasons
It occurs to me that for most holidays, we always end up hearing a lot about how important it is to remember WHY the holiday exists. We’ve got multiple holidays now where we’re supposed to meditate on Freedom and The … Continue reading
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Just so I have a place I can point to if anyone asks: I don’t know if he should withdraw or stay in. I do know that whatever happens, there is still a choice to be made between one party … Continue reading
Something for Thursday (July 4 edition)
Two hundred forty-eight years, and all I can really think of is, what’s it going to look like on the two hundred forty ninth? I continue to be dismayed at the degree to which Americans are capable of being awful, … Continue reading
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The answer is “No.”
And the question is, Will you be watching the debate? Even if this was any kind of “normal” election year, I wouldn’t watch debates, because I decided years ago–2000, in fact–that political debates are a complete and utter waste of time, … Continue reading
90
Hitting 90 degrees before summer starts is not helping my mood. That is all. See y’all tomorrow.
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 →