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He’s actively and pre-emptively working to sabotage Korean denuclearization.

Gareth Porter at Truthdig describes the samo tactics of the apparently incorrigible Bolton.

Alessandro Bussa’s  The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite.

Strawberry blonde next to ebony is striking.

And so it proved at the Saturday matinee two-days-ago Four Temperaments at New York City Ballet, when Olivia Boisson and Lars Nelson danced the First Theme.

They made their debuts in this during the prior NYCB season, thus sixty years after the Adams-Mitchell coupling in Agon.

A commemoration? Certainly the social-political vibes were there, but less self-consciously so than in some other integrated pairings, since they seemed well-matched in terms of height and presence.

Tchennichova used to say only half-facetiously that if you began and concluded your variation with strength and assurance, the audience wouldn’t focus on any weaknesses along the way.

Corps members Boisson and Nelson did seem a bit abashed to be standing alone on the big Koch theater stage to begin the ballet.

But there wasn’t any lack of security in their dancing and partnering.

and Get Lost: pitiful, corrupt, prostrate-before-power White House Correspondents Association.

Jake Johnson at Common Dreams highlights some of the best twitter responses to the WHCA’s disgraceful attack on its own institution–the “free” press.

If she and Hoyer don’t get their regressive, reactionary snouts out of those primaries, they can kiss the upcoming election good-bye.

Leave it to Trump’s White House.

Snowflake President Donald J. couldn’t screw up his courage and attend the WHCA’s dinner, so he sent his flacks.

As Marlow Stern notes at The Daily Beast: “the White House offered up Conway and Huckabee Sanders as sacrificial lambs for the comedy slaughter, presumably choosing these two in order to feign outrage at any low-blow jokes made at their expense.”

can’t handle free speech and political satire, why doesn’t it admit that it has become a travesty and close down shop?

What about figurative masks?

In the sense that every time a performer impersonates someone they are assuming the mask of that alter-identity. Even though in most performing traditions the mask is only notional, and the actor is trying to make his integration into the imputed mask as transparent as possible.

Maggie Haberman’s petulant snits whenever mistakes in her reporting are corrected need to be curtailed.  If self-curtailing won’t work, adult supervision is required.

Learn to admit your mistakes, Maggie–it’s far more instrumental in the end.

Instead of their craven tut-tutting over Michelle Wolf, why can’t/won’t the “mainstream” “news” media do more than call the competing speech Trump made any more ominous than “freewheeling”?

Mark Sumner at Daily Kos breaks down just how ominous Trump’s words were.

“That speech was outrageous. So why isn’t the press outraged?”