Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

The 1960s backfired: the celebration of the self’s potentials turned into blinkered narcissism and narrowly focused expansion. As Suzi Gablik wrote in 1985: “Our one common belief at this point seems to be that no one can be made accountable: … Continue reading →

David Neiwert on Twitter describes Sarah Palin as “in many ways was the key figure in the transformation of the Republican Party into the know-nothing, anti-science, conspiracy-theory-loving, cultishly authoritarian Party of Trump it is today.”

During a family reunion at Lake Tahoe in 1992, my mother’s aunt Mary, then eighty-five, said, “I used to feel I hoped I lived long enough to see how things turned out. Now I’m not sure. In college we thought … Continue reading →

The New Yorker explored Benedetta briefly here. Of course we went a few layers deeper.

Sheathed in slime, Karl Rove re-emerges to do what he does best: defiantly plant a counter-factual narrative. Trump as victim: could anything be more Rovian?

This leering, toxic clown is lashing on the MAGA lemmings to foment “rebellion” against lockdown measures taken to protect their now health.

in driving home the point that Mad King Donald lives in a complete fantasy world.

Until Obama can bring himself to call out Trump and the GOP by name, his value to the resistance is peripheral.

Today he put the screws yet again on this country, declaring in categorical terms that America must annihilate itself for his pleasure.

Watched the first fifteen minutes of the Mariinsky’s Raymonda, streamed a few days ago, now on You Tube. Viktoria Tereshkina danced her variation beautifully. Raymonda is one of the Mariinsky’s finest productions, as the U.S. saw when they brought it … Continue reading →