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Just a few miles southeast from where the ancestors — John Alden, Priscilla Mullens, and possibly Samuel Fuller (the only Mayflower passenger known to have owned a slave, the Native American “Joel”) — touched down after an uneventful crossing from … Continue reading →

Not in the book, but I love Wilde’s recollection of Nicholas Magallanes in Serenade: When he appeared in the final movement together with Waltz ballerina and Dark Angel, “it was like they were walking across the sky.”

William Rivers Pitt, writing superbly as usual for Truth Out, reminded us eighteen-months ago that President Obama’s former top counterterrorism adviser, Daniel Benjamin “describes the ramped-up depiction of the alleged ISIS threat as a ‘farce’ peddled by ‘members of the … Continue reading →

What’s being done in our name, with our money, and at the cost of our international reputation and security: Nicholas JS Davies at Common Dreams reports on our escalating air strikes in Syria and Iraq and the escalating civilian casualties.

Consult Dan H. Marek’s Singing: The First Art. He’s examined all the old Bel Canto manuals and confound it–they still work! And he’s done so much to synthesize his own method and render it coherent to the reader.

Re: Hillary’s alleged redoubtable  wisdom and expertise, Jim Sleeper at Salon writes: “It’ a recurring irony in American politics: From Herbert Hoover to Alan Greenspan, from Woodrow Wilson and his negotiators at Versailles in 1919 to the architects and apologists of … Continue reading →

Well, it’s a small step in the right direction: The Jefferson Market library is now open till 8:00 p.m. four nights a week! And open as well on Sunday afternoons.

Mark Karlin at buzzflash for truthout points out the way our gargantuan military budget is sold to the public– “From the propaganda of the US government — and its echo chamber in the corporate media — you would think that … Continue reading →

I guess nature or nurture produces a touch of the picaresque in you. I think of myself as maybe a little adventurous, but then my my father tells me about the jobs he had in high school/college. We were discussing … Continue reading →

With millions of Americans now apparently unable to discern fantasy from any but the most immediate, concrete external reality, prey  to endless simulations in which “news” shows promote fiction and “reality” shows strut their performance of actuality – I want … Continue reading →