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I’ve talked to/worked with many capable people in publishing. Some are actually inspiring. But only a handful of them had any particularly interest in or knowledge of the arts.

in patriotism and humanity. We have surrendered national leadership to a cadre of greedy, selfish megalomaniac mogulpaths. Our mindless veneration of oligarchs–which in recent years has increased in inverse proportion to our antipathy to culture–is now breaking the United States. … Continue reading →

McConnell’s insisting that the GOP stick with Trump all the way to the bitter end.

Jared and Ivanka–that vile, amoral pair of climbing grifters who went all in with Papa Trump’s attempt to bring down this country–need to be pariahs for the rest of their natural existence. Will they be? Hannah Seligson, writing in The … Continue reading →

What’s good for the peacefully-protesting patriot is good for the goose. Apparently little miss cutesy-pie was the impetus behind Trump’s sight gag with a bible. And if innocent people got straffed, does she give a fuck? For shlock theatrics, primitive … Continue reading →

Isn’t it horribly ironic that the know-nothing brigades who claim that climate scientists are taking down to them would never accept a plumber who didn’t know a wrench from a hole in the wall, or step onto a plane piloted … Continue reading →

No war yet with Iran. So he and that dilapidated DitzKrieg Marsha Blackburn are agitating in the Senate for hostilities against China. It would get them off and it would be yet another tactical deflection from Trump’s genocidal promotion of … Continue reading →

The 1960s backfired: the celebration of the self’s potentials turned into blinkered narcissism and narrowly focused expansion. As Suzi Gablik wrote in 1985: “Our one common belief at this point seems to be that no one can be made accountable: … Continue reading →

David Neiwert on Twitter describes Sarah Palin as “in many ways was the key figure in the transformation of the Republican Party into the know-nothing, anti-science, conspiracy-theory-loving, cultishly authoritarian Party of Trump it is today.”

During a family reunion at Lake Tahoe in 1992, my mother’s aunt Mary, then eighty-five, said, “I used to feel I hoped I lived long enough to see how things turned out. Now I’m not sure. In college we thought … Continue reading →