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ALLA OSIPENKO TURNS 85 TODAY

An International Living Treasure. One of the greatest of the great. With an extraordinary sense of humor to boot!!

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WALKING WOUNDED KELLYANNE CONWAY

An utterly shameless, reprehensible, truth-averse flack, mouthpiece for hate-mongerer Donald J. Trump, Kellyanne routinely spouts scurrilous lies and defamation, then runs to the succor of Fox “News” to spin victimization fantasies.

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CONFRONTING OURSELVES

“The United States is now a country obsessed with the worship of its own ignorance,” Tom Nichols writes in his new The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters.

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UP GOES THE BROWN PAPER

Another one bites the dust: Monument Lane, at the corner of W.12th St. and Greenwich Avenue is the latest magnetic, thriving Village eatery to abruptly fold up its tents, confronted by an obscene rent hike, no doubt.

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FOX “NEWS” WORKS ITS TONGUE TO THE BONE

Slurping Trump and his kids.

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TRUMP AND HIS GOONS

Who have done more to incite domestic terrorism and violence than any administration in living memory, rush to exploit the tragic shooting in Virginia.

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JEFF SESSIONS HAS HISSY FIT

Regina Giddens and Blanche Du Bois are each more forthright than this Beau. Racist perjurer Sessions doth protest, Oh, those vile, vile curs hurling innuendo at himself!

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WHY IS THE NYT CONTINUING TO PROMOTE NUCLEAR POWER?

Right now at the Times, Brad Plumer perpetuates the canard that nuclear power is emissions free. Uranium enrichment cycle, anyone?

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THE NEA IS AFRAID OF ITS OWN SHADOW

This is what the last thirty years of public arts funding keeping its head down brings: At the very moment that the National Endowment for the Arts should be using the Public Theater’s Ceasar as a platform to inform the … Continue reading →

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FOR THE SAKE OF THE U.S. AND HUMANITY —

Can we please–once and for all–disabuse ourselves of the idea that government should be run like a business? That’s like saying I should be head of General Motors. Farren Cousins at Ring of Fire decries the delusional fallacy.

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