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Another person has been killed by the US government. Unfortunately he took none of the stormtroopers with him, even though I hear he was carrying a handgun. I saw Tim Walz give his pathetic statement on the event. He is now complicit. No National Guard, just more lip service about peaceful protest or some other
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After all this time, I realize that Democrats are just as complicit. Their cowardice and deliberate inaction makes them just as guilty. AOC says that he has committed impeachable offenses. Then why don’t you impeach? Don’t have the votes? Go fucking get them. That’s the job. Sorry if it’s rough. You wanted this power. You’ve
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You’re too stupid to be free. You voted for this, therefore you owe. You owe the country. The country that by and large subsidizes you. What will you do besides take up space and let someone else think for you? Have you all called your representative? Have you taken up arms? Do we have to
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Orange Hitler isn’t to blame. An untold mass of redneck, emotionally stunted assholes is to blame. Orange Hitler isn’t to blame. Congress is to blame. They do nothing. Republicans could stop this right now. Right now. Remember that always. We need to publish a running list of all of the members of Congress that did
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In Nighthawks, a 1981 film written by David Shaber about a terrorist in New York City, the character of Inspector Peter Hartman, who is leading the American counter-terrorism team delivers a trusim: “To combat violence, you need greater violence. To defeat a violent people, you have to react in a given situation with ruthless, cold-blooded
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Sleepwalking
They’re sleepwalking. I started to notice the pattern this week and now it’s everywhere I look. No fewer than half a dozen times this week, I’ve asked someone a simple question and received a non-answer, or one that shows no understanding of the question I’m asking. For example, I recently canceled a credit card. I
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Have Yourself A Drony Little Christmas
At long last, we affect the Christmas mosey. I mention it only because I feel like I’m supposed to, but the bodements of early November this year quite plainly ran out of wind far prior to their customary denouement. It was at the onset of these Yuletide doldrums when, what to our wondering eyes should
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It Got Late Early This Year
I spent an afternoon last weekend enjoying myself in Union Square, taking quick turn around the Strand before I ended up browsing the Manifestation section of the Namaste Bookshop. (14th Street and 5th Avenue. It’s easy to find. There’s a life-sized Buddha sitting outside on the sidewalk.) While the incense felt like quicksand for the
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Summer of 2023 in the rear view
A farewell to a summer of loss, of disappointments and another move, but one that concludes with great potential for change and no small amount of relief – punctuated by the Almost Jazz & Art Festival at Bearsville.
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Homeless
When you use the term “homeless,” it conjures images of leathery street people asking for money, “washing” your car windows in the hope that you’ll tip them, and the various temporary homesteads you see in doorways or on subway grates. I always wonder how anyone who sets up one of those homesteads can ever not