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Suffrage
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Cloaked Common Tater Passes Off Hot Potato
“Anonymous” takes me to task in a comment to my earlier post of the 13-minute documentary on John McCain’s adventures with Charles Keating: I won’t argue about McCain’s issues, but why no comments about how the Clinton administration helped our wonderful crisis by pressuring fanny mae to lend more money? This problem isn’t just the fault of over-the-hill-out-of-touch republicans!! Although I have an aversion to answering comments from writers who check their personhood at the blog door, I felt compelled, to wit: Clinton was a virtual Republican.Read More
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KEATING ECONOMICS: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis
And this is just a summary, really.Read More
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Seeing Through the American Narrative
Linh Dinh has a terrific post on his own blog and over at Harriet on this grim anniversary. I responded to him with this comment: Linh, I’d like to add the books of Peter Dale Scott to those your post will encourage folks to read. His poetic trilogy Seculum, along with his journalistic works, especially The Road to 9/11 and The War Conspiracy, examine the deep politics behind our major post-WWII national tragedies (those we suffered and those we inflicted on others).Read More
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Rich and Poor Revisited
It turns out that the translation of the cartoon I included in my just-previous post is, in fact, based on a Spanish translation of an English language original by Australian artist, animator and cartoonist Peter Nicholson.Read More
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Rich and Poor
Below is my translation of a cartoon posted recently on Ana’s blog, along with her usual clever and insightful commentary.Read More
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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
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Seth Abramson on The School of Quietude
I’ve become addicted to Seth Abramson’s blog The Suburban Ecstasies, in part because he always seems to be thinking out loud, not delivering sermons or condescending rants, and thinking out loud requires openness—a quality I value much more than the closed-circuit pronouncements of the Harold Bloom type.Read More