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DIFFERENT (UNWITTING?) WAYS TO GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS
From my father’s autobiography. Will annotate shortly: “Once reading to me for bed when I was very young, my mother told me what she said was a joke. A little boy about my age was Was nervously, hesitantly, fearfully standing … Continue reading
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IF YOU SEE “TICKET-CENTER” IN YOUR URL, EXIT IMMEDIATELY
They scam potential ticket-buyers, myself among them as of last week, by trying to simulate the actual look of performing arts venue web sites, then charging outlandish prices for tickets that are 500 % more than the actual prices.
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MICHAEL KAISER KEEPING IT REAL
I’m tired of hearing kvetches about how the major classical performing arts institutions don’t do enough to attract a younger audience. The reality is that our society has done everything it can to prevent young potential audiences from ever gravitating toward … Continue reading
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DON’T CALL THEM “CONSERVATVE” AND DON’T LET THEM CALL THEMSELVES “CONSERVATIVE”
Even Rachel Maddow still refers to the treasonous slough of right-wing media as the “conservative media.” Don’t do that. There is nothing conservative about a nihilist movement. Were the Bolsheviks “conservative”?
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NO ONE COUDLD CARE LESS WHETHER OR NOT YOU’RE GAY, JESSE WATTERS
but we’d like you to lay off the homophobia. As he creamed over Donald Trump’s alleged hardness last week, Watters accompanied his swoons with the claim that he had an “unblemished record” of heterosexuality.
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FOX THROWS MLLIONS OF MURDOCH $ AT UNEMPLOYABLES LIKE JESSE WATTERS
on the condition that they agree to sacrifice every drop of personal integrity and dignity that they may have once possessed. Shameless buffoon Watters flashes a coy leer as he tells his viewers how “hard” Trump looks in his cartoonish … Continue reading
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IT’S A SLOW-MOVING FARCE
One of the remarkable paradoxes of Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja.”
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MUG SHOT
of an angry, deranged, frightened and disoriented Trump. What in the world does MAGA believe it is looking at when confronted by something like this? A leader? One of the symptoms of MAGA is the radically reduced ability to decode … Continue reading
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THERE’S YOUR DEEP STATE
MA GA is the Deep State, as is proved once again by the now -revealed emails documentary collaboration and coordination between members of the Secret Service and the seditious Oath Keepers in the weeks leading up to Jan 6.
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THE SHAME OF THE MURDOCHS: FOX “NEWS” IS EVEN WORSE
Fox “News” host freaks work overtime to try to convince its deluded viewers that there is no such thing as global warming–then when global warming brings a hurricane to California, said “News” freaks claim that is Biden’s fault.
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