From the nation whose fervid, roaming minds produced the Ronco Five-Tray Electric Food Dehydrator and Duck Dynasty comes a version of governance appropriate for such a land of odd aspiration, monstrou… more →
Scene: Enoughwrote 3 days ago: From the nation whose fervid, roaming minds produced the Ronco Five-Tray Electric Food Dehydrator an … more →
wrote 1 week ago: One undeniable benefit of living in America has long been the comforting continuity of our political … more →
wrote 1 week ago: More or less typifying the flesh-eating cynicism that has spread through today’s Republican Party li … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: What’s so hard about simply accepting that the sun rises up every morning in the west? What do you c … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: In an age of enforced ignorance looking good is going to be more important than ever, for at a time … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Jean Renoir’s celebrated film Grand Illusion, a humanistic ode to common humanity, in this case the … more →
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wrote 1 month ago: American business and American government together and separately have a long, rich history of tryin … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Anyone preternaturally cheerful in general, nationalistic or optimistic about America’s future … more →
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wrote 1 month ago: It is entirely possible America’s right wing demonstrates its love of America’s ordinary people in s … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Like millions of Americans in the summer of 2002 when assorted flaks for the Bush administration beg … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I was going to throw in the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, but he does spend a lot of time thinkin … more →
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wrote 2 months ago: One can’t help but suspect that Libertarian visionaries and conservative ideologues of the sort now … more →
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wrote 3 months ago: I’ll use this snippet of dialogue from Dr. Zhivago as often as necessary to reiterate the mena … more →