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Tomorrow, Tuesday, be at the Landmarks Preservation Commission to speak in favor of the paltry handful of buildings that it has agreed to consider for designation in the Tech Nub, NE Village district. And then support the real deal: demand … Continue reading →

Like Sen. Sasse, the Senator from Arizona will do anything, I mean anything, to preserve American democracy–except stand up to home-grown, Trumpian, McConnell-curated American totalitarianism.

If they revert to their whimpering, c ringing ways, they can forget about victory in 2020. Any Dem who falls for McConnell’s hooey about “presidential harassment” is hammering yet another nail into what could be the party and the country’s … Continue reading →

Zuckerberg thinks that Ceasar Augustus ushered in two hundred years of world peace, and so whatever brutal, horrendous things he did were simply an acceptable means to an end. Heads up, Zucky–you’re referring to the Pax Romana, by which much … Continue reading →

You know, the ones who said that only Hillary was electable. Now they’re cautioning the Democrats against enacting policies that are popular with overwhelming numbers of both Dems and Republicans.

If Pelosi’s become a punching bag for the demented GOP, then fucking get off your asses, Democratic representatives, and defend her. Tell the country how many lattes are consumed by right-wing elected officials and right-wing oligarchs! I would support a … Continue reading →

No, I won’t write it up as a pastiche of Proust, or of Proust by way of Nabokov. I’ve already done that, because Professor Aciman asked us to submit our own little one-page exercises in Proustian homage. And so we … Continue reading →

Between the Saturday Night Live cold open last weekend and Rep. Ocacio-Cortez’s refusal to play defensive. . .

I walked by the mansion in which Nabokov grew up in St. Petersburg nearly every day over a five-week stay in 2005. I hadn’t yet read Speak, Memory however. I love this passage, re: the family’s doorman, a certain Ustin: … Continue reading →

The mother of a young man who died rationing his insulin now presents his ashes to the offices of Big Pharma. Mike Ludwig at Truhout reports. It is Big Pharma and the health insurance companies that are the real death … Continue reading →