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I Rest My Case

Yesterday I offered, shall we say, an unflattering appraisal of the American ‘character’ and psyche. Further evidence supporting that assessment is to be found in the following video: Perhaps those…

Call The Libertarians!

Reader Brian sent this along to me this morning. Enjoy! Though they’ve been a tad quiet during the CoVid 19 Semi-Apocalypse, all you need to do to get by is…

Setting The Record Straight

If you watched Planet of The Humans, executive-produced by Michael Moore, like me you probably came away profoundly disillusioned. The film essentially says that the environmental movement and its advocacy…

A Tale Of Two Countries

Each night I allow myself a half-hour dose of news from an American perspective, usually NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. And every night I emerge from the experience immensely…

A Glitch In The Machine

Watch the following, and you will understand. The Government™ has made an ad about the global response to the pandemic, and it's surprisingly honest and informative ?? ? We're on…

No Comfort From Chris Hedges

Reading Chris Hedges is never a fell-good experience. His unflinching assessments, his unsparingly bleak prognostications, offer no comfort. During the very trying times we are currently living through, why subject…

But A Brief Reprieve

If our thoughts have been able, even briefly, to break out of their ongoing obsession with Covid-19 and death, we will have realized a couple of things: One, that we…

Another Sad, Mad Episode

Listening to Donald Trump prattle on is like bearing witness to the stream-of-consciousness ravings of a backward, depraved child: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out…

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