Archive for July, 2019

Them

It’s “Them”, right?  All this crap is their fault.  If it wasn’t for those people screwing up the economy and the weather and the traffic, closing down all of the friendly and familiar K-Marts and Sears stores, rearranging the aisles at the supermarket, (really, what’s up with that?), taking away…

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No!

The villainy of Donald Trump and the spineless Republican Congress is no longer an uncomfortable divisively split-family dinner argument, it’s a bold, unapologetic matter of fact.  It is wrong-sided for every delicately existential checkbox:  Climate change, the environment, foreign relations, the economy, health, safety, DEMOCRACY, DECENCY, HUMANITY. We can continue…

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Walks Like a Duck

First, let me take this opportunity to ignore the sage advice of almost every schooled debate coach, clear-minded political commentator and student/teacher of historical recurrence, all of whom know scads more than I and have cautioned against the following as ineffective and counterproductive, and say, anyway, “Fuck all of you…

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See?

The way it’s supposed to happen is that when a controversy arises over an event or a statement, the perception of which stirs preconceived biases resulting in irrational polarization that can lead to argument, shoving, mayhem, even war…after the kerfuffle, benign or tragic, the folly of the wrong-sided becomes so evident,…

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