Lost Colossus
Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore. - CiceroThus reborn we will be baptized anew in the common waters of humanity.In an aged...
View ArticleA Bright Whining Lie
(The government) accused us and the other reporters of spreading falsehoods. We were politically suspect. We ought to be fired. Many of our editors doubted us....
View ArticleJournalism (and The Resistance) missed Flight 3411
The Five Questions “Journalism” Forgot to Ask.The United episode was certainly another example of American corporations’ immunity to the arcane dignity of commercial civility. Not that we expect much...
View ArticleSick Transit, Glory of McCain
It is in many ways genuinely comforting that John McCain is able to return this week for to lay down his trembling Vote. Senator McCain is without a doubt a far greater, more...
View ArticleDream of the Minotaur: Searching for Trump in his own Maze.
All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a shared past. In general, every country has the language it deserves....
View ArticleDesolate by the Shore: Arcadia's Last Stand
and the only sound that’s left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row — Bob DylanThe ships of state lay mucked afoul and in black water listing.A...
View ArticleWhite House Resistance Op/Ed: The Ultimate Folly of Propaganda is the Silence...
Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with themSenator John McCainThe medium of The Gray Lady’s OP/ED stunner I am a Part of the Resistance...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren’s Last Dance
Dak'i ñ'ago äho'ähe'dal, Gâ'dal-gâ'ga äho'ähe'dal, Do'm-gâ'ga äho'ähe'dal.The spirit host is advancing, they say. They are coming with the buffalo, they say. They are coming with the (new) earth, they...
View ArticleA Dog in the Hunt, A Man on the Moon and a Party on the Edge of Darkness
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.- Mark TwainI think a lot of the D wave optimism going around right now is based on circumstantial evidence that in many...
View ArticleThe Wrong Kind of Blue
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ----John F....
View ArticleCatcalled Here for my Doubts. Am I Another lost Moderate?
I am deeply moved and agree with this post by Granny Carol: www.dailykos.com/…It comes as close as possible to expressing my concerns — without getting me banned for life from here. I had a rough week...
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