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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal hears a disturbing rhyme, one that she says “brought me back to Germany in 1938.” Follow the link to find out why.
Aside:
It’s one I also hear.
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*Mark Twain.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Joe Conason looks at J. D. Vance’s recent remarks during a visit to Germany and makes a strong case that Vance is running with a bad crowd.
Just go read it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A well-adjusted “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about today’s Republican Party’s war on DEI, Suzanne Moynihan decodes de code.
The Game Plan 0
In The Minnesota Star-Tribune, in a longer article by ten health professionals about the right-wing’s jihad against trans youth (who, remember, are minuscule portion of the population), the authors sum up the strategy of today’s Republican Party as succinctly as can be done:
Manufacturing a good enemy is the best way to stay in power.
follow the link for their evidence.
The Crypto Con 0
Froma Harrop explains how it works. A snippet:
Follow the link for details.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
And lots of people think the drum solo is a rock and roll thing . . . .
The Privatization Scam 0
Maddy Wheelock details the duplicity. A snippet;
Suffer the Children 0
Farron debunks de bunk and details the misdirection play. (Warning: mild language.)
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more evidence that leads one to consider the possibility that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value . . . .
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert Hill reminds us that there’s nothing new about current white supremacist backlash against DEI.
It’s but the latest in a long line of attempts to keep the downtrodden trodden down.
Follow the link for a list.
Recommended Reading 0
The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham.
I read it many years ago and was inspired to reread it after watching a movie adaptation on TCM. (My DL friend Spencer, who used to work in the movie industry, said of that adaptation, “Oh, that’s the good one.”)
I had almost forgotten what a fine writer Maugham was. I’m now working my way through another of his novels, Theatre, one I’ve not read before, which is in a collection of Maugham novels that my friend surprised me with because I said I wanted to reread The Razor’s Edge.
By heavens, the man could write!
The Cultural Devolution 0
Mangy announces the upcoming bill of events for the newly Trumpled Kennedy Center.