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Age one to age seven or eight, my mother spent summers at Woods Hole on Cape Code, where her father undertook biological investigations at the research center. The fog horns she heard there at night scared her, until her mother … Continue reading →

This disgraceful person is not a cut above anything; she has, in fact, hit a new low. Her baby-killing accusations against Democrats must be condemned by them in the strongest possible terms. And Sarah, you meretricious moron, we already have … Continue reading →

Michael Cohen calls out the current GOP caucus for what it is. Were Sens. McConnell and Graham listening, or were they busy off-site with kimono  fittings?

It also is yuck that the “mainstream” media–and the NYT, is, of course, actually mainstream without the scare quotes–will only report on something like ballet when there is a scandal or a multicultural affirmation. And then, given the “mainstream” media’s … Continue reading →

I was minding my own business, taking a walk down a country road, everything absolutely still and quiet, the fields covered with snow — when I get a phone call from someone who’d read the latest New York Times piece on … Continue reading →

In their unending pursuit of inflicting the most harm on the greatest number of Americans, Daddy and Baby Doll Mercer pooled their pennies to rent a stupendously fraudulent and stupid billboard targeting AOC on her opposition to the Amazon shakedown. … Continue reading →

The great Dutch historian Rutger Bregman unflinchingly put Tucker in his place with that succinct and apposite tag. Just perfect. And therefore, Fox “News” won’t air the interview. I guess overpaid, over-entitled fake-populist totalitarians UNEQUIVOCALLY believe in free and fair … Continue reading →

As if CNN hadn’t done enough to get Trump elected (for all the gratitude it earned them), they’ve now hired to helm their 2020 election coverage right-wing political operative Sarah Usgur, despite (or because of) the fact that she’s  got … Continue reading →

The current, ultra right-wing Supreme Court majority was cemented illegally by Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, years after its now-senior members were installed via utterly duplicitous confirmation hearing behavior by Injustices Thomas, Roberts, and Alito. The majority does not represent … Continue reading →

Gittelson’s 1991 novel Biography is one of the best evocations of the biographical process I’ve ever read. But no more books published by her since then.