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As a rule our “mainstream” media keep us as ignorant as possible about the heinous civilian casualties of our endless wars, but in the Washington Post Greg Jaffe and Loveday Morris describe the “high toll of Obama’s low-cost wars.”

Richard North Patterson at Huffington Post flails their elevation of Trump and tenacious attempt to normalize an obviously deeply disturbed personality. “They have countenanced lie upon lie; recast his disturbed behavior as strategic genius; marveled at the immunity from his … Continue reading →

Democratic party establishment is a blinkered, sclerotic, bought-and-paid-for excuse for a political leadership, without any demonstrated commitment to solving the catastrophic problems now besetting the U.S.–but with a real gift for gab about how much it cares. It sold its … Continue reading →

You knew when the “mainstream” “news” media is launching one of its hit jobs because of the co-ordination, rather similar to the way Stalin and the front page of Pravda functioned together. Definitely, truly anti-democratic, anti-journalistic. The latest shameful episode … Continue reading →

This was posted unedited, by accident. Love the title, so I’ll just keep it aloft by itself for a day.

Studying body language, that is. And doesn’t Trump resemble a primate howling and pounding its chest? And back in the realm of our own species, the screaming and gesturing and hyperventilating really demonstrate close observance of the Fuhrer.

That same sitting POTUS who wanted to propitiate mad dog Republicans by cutting Social Security? Now he’s calling, as well he should have been seven years ago, for it to be expanded.

He seems to be creating a boomlet of reinterest in Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man. I’ve wanted to read it for years. I mean, how great is Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener, and Billy Budd? A country that could produce … Continue reading →

Rob Briscoe’s documentary on the Bankhead family premieres June 9 in Jasper, Alabama, which was their home town for a long time. Once it’s dark out–or once darkness descends, I should say in tribute to the family’s gift for florid … Continue reading →

Marco Rubio is paid a six-figure salary to goldbrick his way through an absentee Senate term, serving only as a human coin box for billionaires and their agendas. Why not keep the gig rolling?