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At the beginning of act two of Tristan und Isolde, Isolde’s handmaiden Brangaene indeed now wrings her hands with regret that she’d substituted love potion for death potion. Isolde silences her in some of Wagner’s most sublime music, insisting that it … Continue reading →

“The moment was as remarkable as it was unprecedented,” notes The Washington Post.

The Senate Intel Committee should be investigating fake news–beginning with Fox and Breitbart, the fake sources from which you derive your completely ersatz worldview.

The Times exposes the ten Senators and ten Congress members most besotted with NRA cash–alongside their prayer-professing condolences to the bereaved in Las Vegas.

That residential tower nearing completion on 22nd Street is monstrously overscaled, particularly for that block and for the surrounding landmark districts. After the leviathan on 23rd St facing Madison Square–well, there goes the neighborhood.

in the morning is telling him to squirrelishly deflect all attention from the actual Los Vegas massacre, and the NRA’s subsidy of the GOP, via constant effusion over first responders.

Much more convincing than Mick Mulvaney playing a wonk and a public servant: Loren really seems noble in every sense of the word in 1964’s “The Fall of the Roman Empire” An intelligent epic.

No, Mick, your new glasses don’t make you look more credible, and they certainly don’t make you more honest. Josh Marshal notes the absurdity of Mulvaney now stumping for those very same deficits he was so, so concerned about back in … Continue reading →

Hillary’s wonkish prattle and Obama’s bizarrely disengaged tangle of passive constructions and unnamed opposition “folks,” represent the absolute nadir of effective messaging. Simple, clear passionate messaging is what’s required. Names need to be named. “Dumb it down, Democrats,” David Masciotra … Continue reading →

Can you name one thing the Party is now doing that sustains or supports post-natal human life, in America or anywhere else on the globe?