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Tag: ek Politics
Jul 19 2020
50 Shades of Kiss Me Kate
Certainly one of the most misogynistic, anti-feminist plays Shakespeare ever wrote (and there are some awful ones, Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered) the questions worth considering as you watch it are these (among others)- Who wants a tamed Shrew anyway? Lou Grant hates spunk! What makes you think you can change …
Jul 18 2020
RJ Eskow and Thomas Franks on Anti-Populism
Interesting. Economic History to be sure, but also History.
Jul 17 2020
Black Helicopters and Secret Police
Think it hasn’t come to that? You are mistaken. ‘It was like being preyed upon’: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them By Katie Shepherd, Washington Post July 17, 2020 Federal customs officials said Friday that their agents had detained a demonstrator in Portland, Ore., who had described being “terrified” by …
Jul 16 2020
Corona(tion)
Still a very, very bad idea. I was at an outdoor meeting in Niagra Falls New York (great Porterhouse, couldn’t find the hole in the wall last time I was there) in August and damn near died of Heat Exhaustion. In Upstate New York. Next to a really, really big Fire Hydrant. Enjoy your swelter …
Jul 15 2020
Better Get Your 12 Gauge Buckshot Now
By the Pallet. I practice a lot. Walmart will require face masks at all U.S. stores By Hannah Denham and Taylor Telford, Washington Post July 15, 2020 Walmart Inc. will require all shoppers to wear masks starting Monday, positioning employees at the entryways of thousands of its namesake stores and Sam’s Club locations to help …
Jul 13 2020
Elvis’ Grave
I must admit his musical charms are lost on me except as parody and this story may seem a bit macabre falling on the heels as it does of the announcement of the death of his only Grandson at the age of 27, presumably of suicide. But it’s not really about Elvis at all, outside …
Jul 13 2020
Pottersville
C’mon, It’s A Wonderful Life. Clarence? Zuzu’s Petals? Buffalo Gal? You can hardly have missed it, before A Christmas Story it ran 24/7 from Thanksgiving to Boxing Day. It’s a bigger problem than you think. Not only are arrears due in a lump at the expiration of the moratorium, but they’re mostly uncollectable so valuations …
Jul 12 2020
Mueller Speaks
Which he never does. Weak Tea if you ask me. Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so By Robert S. Mueller III, Washington Post July 11, 2020 The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond …
Jul 11 2020
Smallpox Blankets
Not made up, real History. At that biological Genocide is one of the lesser indignities we inflicted on the First Nations which makes me glad to read news like this- Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Native American Rights in Oklahoma By Jack Healy and Adam Liptak, The New York Times July 11, 2020 The Supreme …
Jul 11 2020
Since April
April, May, June, only a Third of July. Not long at all really. The worst president ever keeps getting worse by Max Boot, Washington Post July 11, 2020 Three months ago — all the way back on April 5 — I proclaimed Donald Trump the worst president ever. Oh, how innocent I was. Sure, I …
Jul 09 2020
An Appointment In Samarra
An old Arabian Fable adapted from a translation by W. Somerset Maugham in 1933. There was a merchant in Bagdad who went to the Market to buy provisions and he was jostled. When he turned he saw it was Death and Death made a threatening gesture, Shaken he took his fastest horse and fled to …