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From an enthusiastic correspondent: “These are great days and the cast of Tuesday night’s moody, funny, and gloomy Rake’s Progress deserves mention. One can envision the likes of Golda Schultz, Ben Bliss, and Christian Van Horn joining a kind of … Continue reading →

When von Karajan recorded Aida in 1959, Tebaldi complained that his unwontedly early recording sessions were beginning at an hour when she was customarily still asleep–or at least her voice was. A friend had given me his ticket for the … Continue reading →

Village Preservation has uncovered a smoking gun proving that the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission conspired with the administration of ex-Mayor Bill De Blasio to ensure the completely unnecessary demolition of the designated-landmarks row of nineteenth-century houses on Ninth Avenue. Deferring … Continue reading →

Robert has been a radical operative since the get-go, albeit a more temperate jurist than the slovenly, lazy trio named by Trump and McConnell. Jim Hightower reminds us that Roberts’ court has so disgraced itself that it is now really … Continue reading →

If one flavor of gelato isn’t available, someone has a breakdown. If stemming a pandemic means the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask, the country is enraged. Imagine how grateful 1950s America would have been if wearing a mask could … Continue reading →

OK, maybe not since Hitler’s jig — have we seen any public kinetic exhibition as grotesque as Trump shaking his immense behind in triumph after exploiting the children’s massacre for which his gun policies and the GOP’s are responsible–at the … Continue reading →

Could it be that Biden is being advised by the same neo-liberal charlatans who did their best to wreck the Clinton & Obama presidencies? Biden is old enough to know better, and you would think after what he witnessed as … Continue reading →

Bravi to the school kids walking out of their classrooms to protest the inability or downright refusal of their elders to even attempt to protect them from sociopaths with automatic, battlefield-grade weapons.

Murphy is promising that if bipartisan talks fail over the next ten days–which they will–rest assured, the Senate will be taking another vote on gun violence!!!! Big whoop. Vote shaming doesn’t work with a messaging apparatus as inept as the … Continue reading →

Thus their blocking today in the Senate on the bill requiring federal agencies to monitor incidents of domestic terrorism.