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An unanswered prayer to Professor Robert Reich
image fromFrom a more than slightly edited Facebook entry responding toRobert Reich is live now. [From Facebook]23 mins · The resistance report March 3, 2017 John Brown Professor -- I have one comment...
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Quote of the Day: The schmuck fallacy
image fromA spectre is haunting contemporary American literature -- the spectre of self-pitying men. Failed or failing writers, functionally or dysfunctionally alcoholic, these characters -- or alter...
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Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- Trump has been compared to Jackson ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_ActJB comment: Trump has been compared (perhaps excessively) to Jackson; but a quotation attributed to Mark Twain may be appropriate (but not entirely...
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Read U.S. Diplomat Daniel Fried's Retirement Speech Warning Against Isolationism
Daniel Fried, time.com.Feb 25, 2017Image from article, with caption: Then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried visits the ethnic Georgian village of Nikozi, on the border of Russian-backed...
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Spin and Dishonesty
image fromCritics of our political culture used to complain, with justification, about politicians’ addiction to spin — their inveterate habit of downplaying awkward facts and presenting their actions...
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What He Could Do
Mark Danner, nybooks.comDonald Trump; drawing by James FergusonWhat we are witnessing now is the birth of a new political order, and the more frantic a handful of media elites become, the more powerful...
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The American Dream has moved to Canada
Scott Gilmore, macleans.ca, February 28, 2017; via SLBy every measure, Canada is the true place to find ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ Let’s stop squandering our good fortune.Image from...
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The President's mental state
Excerpt from: Elizabeth Drew, "Terrifying Trump," New York Review of Books; see also.image from articleTrump’s possible mental deficiencies are also a troubling question: serious medical professionals...
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Divided States of America: Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
pastemagazine.comDivided States of AmericaPaste Interviews Art World Provocateur and Curator Alison GingerasBy Leah Rosenzweig | February 16, 2017 | 9:30amAt a time when rife discrimination against...
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The Most Common Jobs Held By Immigrants, State By State
thebeststuffonline.net; via RB on FacebookImmigrants come from all over the world to the US, and they are a hugely important part of the US economy. The types of jobs immigrants take varies from place...
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Moscow-based exceptional commentator Teeter on Snowden
Mark H. Teeter shared Moscow TV Tonite's post.16 hrs · MOSCOW TV TONITE: The Stone Cold Case For Fast EddieSnowden/Сноуден (FRA, GER, USA, 2016)(Ch. 1, 22:30)--> Everybody has their take on Moscow’s...
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Flesh and blood jukebox
Richard Taruskin, The Times Literary SupplementImage from article, with caption: Van Cliburn and Sviatoslav Richter at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow, 1958Obituaries for Van...
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The February Revolution and Kerensky’s Missed Opportunity
John Quiggin, nytimes.com [original article contains links]Image from article, with caption: Troop summoned by Aleksandr Kerensky from the frontto suppress an uprising in 1917Brisbane, Australia — The...
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Overwhelmed by "narrative" -- the word ...
image fromIf I sound like a high school (college? - what's the diff) student who didn't turn his homework on time, I beg your forgiveness. And I don't even have a dog (but I do have a blog:) )...I've...
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Americans are having less sex than they once did
By Tara Bahrampour March 7 at 6:00 AM, Washington Post. (Original article contains video & links).image from articleIt used to be that along with certain tax benefits, one advantage to being...
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Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera
Farhad Manjoo, New York Times [original article contains links]image from articleIf you’re watching Snap’s stock ticker, stop. The company that makes Snapchat, thepopular photo-messaging app, has been...
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37 maps that explain how America is a nation of immigrants - Note for a...
vox.com; via JR on Facebook [with apologies for the formatting]American politicians, and Americans themselves, love to call themselves "a nation of immigrants": a place where everyone's family has, at...
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20 Ways to Spot an American Abroad
Garrett Steele, travel.alot.comJB favorite (item 5)This isn't really something anyone can help. As hilarious as other peoples' attempts are to "do an American accent"—America is a huge country with...
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Do Brexit and the election of Donald Trump show we ARE living in a computer...
dailymail.co.uk; via LH on FacebookExpert from University of East Angila argues events were once unthinkableVote for Brexit and election of Donald Trump caused some to question realityUnexpected events...
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Russians Genetically a Lot Less Russian Than They Like to Think
Paul Goble, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.comImage (not from article) from Staunton, March 16 – Even though many Russians often say that “if you scratch a Russian, you’ll find a Tatar,” most consider...
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