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The Corruption Pro Am
It’s the fact-iest fact of our times: nobody does corruption like the modern Republican Party. Whatever other skill sets the GOP collectively have, they pale in comparison to the Republican facility with corruption. Man-oh-MAN, are they good at being corrupt! Watching the GOP everyday, it’s a lot like living inside a “Corruption Pro Am”. They’re…
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“Trumpocalypse Now”: The Movie
There’s a theory that we don’t actually live in “reality”. Rather, we’re all part of a giant computer simulation. We’re not individual humans with lives, histories and feelings, we’re bits of bytes. I have a competing theory. We’re not part of any sort of computer simulation, we’re all characters acting in a movie called “Trumpocalypse…
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There Simply Can’t BE A “Republican Party” Anymore
If social media did anything to popular culture, it made branding as essential as oxygen. Just being doesn’t cut it anymore. One must represent now, too. Ah, but it’s harder than just saying who you (think you) are. These days, we have few secrets from each other. Any one of us can dive deeply into…
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Why America Won’t “Go Fascist”
Having been born in 1959, I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My first grade Hebrew School teacher Mrs. Lederkranz had a number tattooed into her arm. Though we were all only six, all the kids in our class – in all her classes – knew how that number got there. Pikesville, MD…
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Guns Are Literal Death Machines
I suspect our problem is the word “gun”. It’s innocuous. And, it doesn’t really say what the thing it’s naming does. One can gun an engine, but that’s not shooting it. “Gun” has become generic and “gun control” too vague. I propose a fix. An honest one that starts with everyone acknowledging a few fundamentals…
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Hey, Russia, If You’re Listening…
How much treason does a traitor have to commit before our news media finally deigns it “treasonous”? Maybe a better question is “how much treason do they have to describe before they finally accept their own reporting as true”? One of the truly confounding things about Donald Trump and his assault on our body politic…
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Sampling Cicadas Wouldn’t Be Hard – Hell, I’ve Tried CHICKEN SUSHI!*
I just saw on CNN how ~25% of Americans would consider sampling a cicada. That’s surprising. I’d have thought fewer Americans would be open to breaking down such a huge cultural barrier. If Americans had grown up eating bugs — as some other cultures do — we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Food and culture…
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White Perspective Is A Bully’s Perspective
We get it — the idea of power sharing horrifies you; it always has. That’s why you’ve worked ceaselessly — regardless of whether you went by the label “Dixiecrat” or “Southern Democrat” or “Republican” — to prevent anyone NOT white from participating in American democracy — a thing you yourselves abhor. The problem with democracy…
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The Democrats Have A “Back Door” To Controlling The Senate — Via A Rejuvenated Department Of Justice
Let’s assume the worst case scenario for the sake of argument: Republicans “win” both Georgia Senate seats today. In light of Republicans’ penchant for cheating in order to “win” elections and their refusal to acknowledge losing should their cheating not prevail, any Republican victory (even in deeply red counties) must now be viewed skeptically. In…
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What Is It About Donald Trump That The WHOLE WORLD (Except For 70 Million Americans) Recognized?
What happened yesterday — after first NBC News then the rest of the world finally got on board and declared Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the winners — has never happened before. The result of an American election caused outbreaks of spontaneous joy to erupt not just in America but throughout the world. Church bells…