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John Bolton has got to leave government. His latest incredibly dangerous betise has been revealed: Dion Nissenbaum in The Wall Street Journal describes Bolton’s rabid campaign to bomb Iran. All we need, right? Another war. That would be, another endless … Continue reading →

I’ll give you the back story later, but this was the message on my phone machine, September 1995: “What kind of loser are you that you don’t return the call of a woman who wrote the best book on Tallulah … Continue reading →

And if you don’t believe me, read Bill Curry at Salon.

Speaker Pelosi asks Majority Leader McConnell: “Do you take an oath to the Constitution or an oath to Donald Trump?

Mired in trivia, “news” shows and “news”papers take a pass on the most urgent issues–climate change, anyone? Thom Hartman writes at Common Dreams: “Ever since the media began, in a big way in the 1980s, to ignore actual news and … Continue reading →

We have reached that nightmare dystopia.

Truly, Sen. McConnell is one of the most malevolent, destructive figures in the history of this country. He is, naturally enough, thoroughly disapproved of by the folks in Kentucky. Time for a Democratic challenger to announce herself.

As the city and  the developers launch a ferocious assault on the historic North East Village–the ongoing demolition of the landmark, but not landmark-designated St. Denis hotel on East 11th Street is a moment of shame for the municipality–the Greenwich … Continue reading →

That’s what Democrats and Democratic Socialists should say every time Liz Cheney or any other Republican windbag moronically intones “Venezuela!” to mean–something or other, in the service of their shoveling more money at the super rich while shafting everyone else. … Continue reading →

In my Conversation with Violette Verdy in the new, Winter 2018-19 Ballet Review, she says that when she saw Le Clercq dance in Paris in 1956 New York City Ballet had just come from Venice. But Venice had been a … Continue reading →