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DIDN’T THAT GO OUT W/HILLARY’S BID?
I refer to the exhausted spectacle of Democratic candidates telling the public what they don’t deserve, what they don’t want to do for them. Last night showed that that treadmill to oblivion still functions, albeit with rusty bolts and wheels. … Continue reading
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BENEDICT McCONNELL’S FIT OF MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE
This is the Republican normal: work against the interests of the country, then howl that you’ve been victimized when you’re found out. If McConnell doesn’t want to be called a Russian asset, then he shouldn’t perform as one. Now, of … Continue reading
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I WANTED TO SEE JAKE GYLLENHAAL & I WANTED TO BE IN THE HUDSON THEATER
I’ve never seen him live, and I’ve always wanted to see what that beautiful theater with the,by Broadway standards, huge lobby is really like! Both delivered big time last night on West 44th Street in Sea Wall/A Life. As Zubkovskaya … Continue reading
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ALL THE DEMS HAVE TO DO TO TAKE BACK THE SENATE
is to remind the commonweal how GOP senators voted to confirm the freakiest, most seditious, most sociopathic, most corrupt, most disreputable in every way Cabinet in our country’s history. And btw–William Barr is a depraved criminal, as he proved once … Continue reading
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ON STAGE, IN PRINT & IN HAWAII
Robert Barnett’s memoir, On stage at the Ballet: My Life as Dancer and Artistic Director, has just been published by McFarland, while Barnett in person is in Hawaii doing more staging for Ballet Hawaii!
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BLOODLINES
Wanted to find out exactly how intimately I am connected to Broadway legend! Mean and legendary producer Abraham Erlanger was my great-grandfather Samuel’s first cousin. I would imagine that my grandfather Joseph, of Low & Johnson and then Joe Low … Continue reading
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THE GOP PAID NO POLITICAL PRICE FOR IMPEACHING CLINTON
Where does Nancy Pelosi get her history? Isn’t imaginary facts the GOP’s department? Does she forget that they won everything in 2000? Btw, the manner in which Rep. Tlaib shut down Rep. Jordan’s mad-dog-at-a-Soviet-show-trial shtick shows exactly why & how … Continue reading
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THE SQUAD IS THE BEST THING THAT’S HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRATS IN A LONG TIME
The Democrats were so moribund that they weren’t even able to get to their knees to beg the Republicans for mercy because they had so chronically shot themselves in the feet.
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ANOTHER EXCERPT
From my father’s book: Long Island, 1943: Most Friday nights my father now took me with him to services at the nearby Merrick Jewish Center. Once bar mitvahed, a child is deemed an adult for all religious purposes. As a … Continue reading
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TRUMP HAS GOT PRIVATE COACHING FROM ALL THE BEST DICTATORS
His criticize-me-and-you’re-unpatriotic, because I AM America, is sheer totalitarian dogma, as practiced by his best friends around the globe and his beloved forbear in Germany.
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