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Right before the pandemic hit here, an acquaintance of mine was in Jericho, Long Island and happened to see for sale a pair of socks he thought would be just my thing. And they are: they’re printed with Woodstock Festival … Continue reading →

The Washington Post has just put together a devastating video dub of White House something-or-other Katie Price hectoring and hog-calling the press.

Lower rate of job growth than under Obama, but Obama’s economy was part smoke and mirrors, too–the jobs being created were/are minimum wage. The recent slight rise in wages does not compensate for decades of flat wages. America is not … Continue reading →

Arthur Hiller’s “Making Love” holds up a lot better than so much slick silliness from that dreadful, regressive decade. How sad and ironic that it actually set back the careers of Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, and Michael Ontkean. They are … Continue reading →

But what very satisfying as well as hard work as Lisa and I give the final goings-over to Red Star, White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev. The book has over 100 photos–we picked each one and worked … Continue reading →

As Trump’s poll numbers go down and his madness ramps up, he is inciting insurrection. Call it a bonne bouche to himself–reopening without testing will certainly create enough carnage on its own.

Trump is shambling and stumping through a declaration of genocide against the American people.

Watching Hannity’s signature repertory of smirks, simpers, grimaces, and mouth-agape Bronx cheers, we see how closely Trump has patterned himself after Hannity and Fox’s roster of genocidal, traitorous demagogues.

American lives are simply collateral damage to this White House as it makes the claim that totally imaginary advances in testing capacity, treatment, et.al., are justifying their decision to open the corona floodgates.

Global outrage against Trump’s latest opportunistic, apocalyptic assault on global health. In the Guardian, Helen Davidson reports: “Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal, wrote that Trump’s decision was ‘a crime against humanity … Every scientist, every health … Continue reading →