On this day it is often difficult for us not to feel smug when we look at so much of the world beyond our borders. While such complacence is never a good idea, in her column today Susan Delacourt reminds us we have much to be thankful for, especially vis-à-vis
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Politics and its Discontents: The Ugly American
Probably first coined in a 1958 novel, The Ugly American is a term that, unfortunately, has clear and immediate relevance: The US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, leaving none for the UK,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: To John Wayne Fans Everywhere
Apparently, the screen hero had the proverbial feet of clay. There is no context that can justify these indefensible views, expressed in a 1971 Playboy interview: H/t Brian Karem Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: With Age Comes Wisdom
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Theirs Is Not To Reason
Owen’s blog post today discusses how the world sees the United States as a nation to be shunned, one of the reasons being its entirely inept handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Clearly, its refusal to confront this peril in a responsible, mature manner means that its citizens have become a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Alternate Reality
With a pathological liar as its president, it probably does not come as a shock that many Americans live in an alternate reality. Promoted and cultivated endlessly by Donald Trump, their master, and spread wide by pernicious social media and house organs like Fox ‘News’ and One American News Network,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Just In Case The Blood Of The Lamb Doesn’t Protect You
… these pastors have a backup plan: Dream City Church, the north Phoenix megachurch set to host a Donald Trump rally on June 23, claims it has solved the pandemic problem in its auditorium, making it safe for anyone who wants to attend. In a video posted on Sunday, Senior
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I’ll leave you to supply the appropriate term to reflect this gentleman’s ‘insights’: These are the type of people who should be pepper sprayed, not peaceful protesters pic.twitter.com/hibwzJfLh1 — Rob Gill (@vote4robgill) June 20, 2020 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Boogie On Down To The Rally Tonight
I do believe this young lady captures a certain reality and ethos quite effectively: do — Courtney Jaye (@TropicaliJaye) June 20, 2020 Not sure if the youngsters below would agree, but they do validate the above, don’t you think? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: They Indict Themselves
A wealth of words, many of them scathing and acrimonious, have been written about Donald Trump and those who continue to support him; I have nothing to add except a rather obvious observation: one of the ties that bind them is their refusal/inability to confront reality. That fact is on
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Heroes No More
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh? Things like corporate greed, for example. The public was much heartened when grocery store magnates granted pay boosts to front-line line workers as an acknowledgement of the risks they were facing during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. However, that corporate
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: What Manner Of Man Is This?
The short answer is that he is not a man at all. A man, as opposed to a raging narcissist/sociopath, would never do what Donald Trump is planning as he gets ready to put tens of thousands of his loyalists at risk at his upcoming Tulsa ego-fest. Note the series
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Strange Fruit
H/t Michael De Adder Those who say the police are just doing their job are just not paying attention. Be warned. Both of these videos are hard to watch: This is Fucking nuts! How is this even a reasonable thing to do by police. This was murder. https://t.co/HxKHVOhnaB — Rick
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: With A Humble Heart
These past many weeks have been difficult ones. We have been largely confined to our homes; social ties we have nurtured for years are under stress, if for no other reason than our inability to be in the presence of those we love and care about. Compounding our sense of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Putting Things Into Perspective
Few people do it as well as Robert Reich. And there are lessons here for Canada as well: I don't know who needs to hear this, but refusing to disclose the corporations receiving $500,000,000,000 in taxpayer-funded bailouts is the real looting in America. pic.twitter.com/jg5kkDSGUh — Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 12,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Free Lesson
Something for the discerning amongst us:H/t Linwood Barclay This is how it’s done. https://t.co/NT0haqXu5x — Linwood Barclay (@linwood_barclay) June 11, 2020 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When In The Wrong, Go On The Attack
Here is a how-to lesson: “Everybody’s trying to shame us.” pic.twitter.com/T1ISTiZpEe — Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 9, 2020 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Not A Pleasing Reflection
Yesterday’s post revolved around the painful reality of Black people having to tell their children, often at a very young age, the harsh facts of racialized life and the things they must do to protect themselves from state violence. Truly heartbreaking, but it would be a mistake to believe this
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Lesson In Empathy
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch famously tells his daughter Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” That statement, that call for empathy, may sound obvious,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Repost: The Blood of Emmett Till
Almost two years ago I wrote a series of posts on racism, starting with the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy horribly tortured before his death. Here is that post, and if you would like to read the entire series, you can click here From this tragedy
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