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Goes off half-cocked against Syria on the day the GOP wrecks the Senate and steals the Supreme Court. More escalation, more deaths, more blowback, more terrorism, more perpetual war, and more authoritarianism in the United States.

Robert Edmund Jones was a great set designer and dramatic theorist who designed for the opera as well as Broadway. His 1941 The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre has many lines worth quoting.  Jones … Continue reading →

All will not be comity in the Senate tomorrow. In The Nation, Ari Berman reports on accelerating hostilities now inevitable since “The GOP Has Declared War on Democracy.”

The GOP’s McConnell-led assault on democracy in America cranks up more than one notch. And remember, two-faced bullshit-slingers like McCain went along with it. And all those principled GOP “moderates.” They have succeeded in delegitimizing our Supreme Court. The GOP … Continue reading →

E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post reminds us that Chief Injustice Roberts “went to Florida as a volunteer lawyer advising then-Gov. Jeb Bush, who had a rather large interest in his brother’s victory. Can we please acknowledge that few court … Continue reading →

This is the monster who wants to rip health care away from millions of American families. But what he does care about is distracting from his scandal-plagued administration, and to that end he may thus very well launch a unilateral … Continue reading →

What world does he inhabit? Thrown off the National Security Council, he lashes out at GOP scapegoat Susan Rice for “operationalizing” the NSC. Huh? I’ve looked up the word and still see no relevance or logic to Bannon’s latest ouburst.

On the Senate floor, Senator Merkley is giving us an edifying roll-out of Injustice Gorsuch’s shocking rulings.

Publicist Kimberly Giannelli sent me this heads up: April 8: Artists Talk: Dance Criticism in Uncertain Times This Saturday at 7:30p.m., The Steps Beyond Foundation presents Artists Talk: Dance Criticism in Uncertain Times, moderated by Juilliard graduate professional dancer turned … Continue reading →

Do “mainstream” media “pundits” continue to insist that the GOP would allow the Dems to filibuster the next Supreme Court nominee? & to insist that red-state Dems are endangering their re-elections by standing up for the rights of citizens and … Continue reading →