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History Makes Fascist Parents Flip Their Lids
Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the classic graphic novel Maus, continues to inspire panic among the repressive nitwits seeking to ban their children from learning about history.Read More
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A Tribute Taking Place on Many Levels
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The Language of Sleaze
At first I thought I’d let the latest right-wing sleazefest slide, but the more I thought about the new anti-Hillary 527 organization founded by Roger Stone—a former Watergate “dirty trickster” and one of the nastiest little creeps on the scene—I realized that it really deserves examination. First you need to read about it here. Then you need to contemplate for a few moments the “art” this stoneless Roger is offering up on T-Shirts, supposedly promoting his organization: If you just don’t “get” this misogynistic humor, consider yourself lucky and simply skip this post.Read More
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Murder on the Poetry Express
The following mélange of doggerel and political vapidity has been offered up by Maya Angelou — not in America, but in (and for) a British newspaper, The Observer. Perhaps this is due to the affection the current British Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, seems to harbor for disposable “poetry.” “With this kind of poem Angelou has decided to interpret public writing as a verbal equivalent of making a poster,” Mr.Read More