“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
What will you do with your anger at the hosts of truly despicable people who will be been given immense power by 74 million Americans, the MAGA faithful among them who flew Fuck Biden flags and bought t shits that read “‘Biden sucks, Kamala swallows’ while the back read, ‘F**k Joe and the Hoe.’” What will you do with all those swirling emotions in reaction to this moral catastrophe of […]
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Three Days After: Like you, my sleep has been rattled. I’ve found myself either lying awake in a wild animal awareness, listening to the dry wind and the scuttling of leaves, or I’ve given up, come downstairs and sat in the darkness sipping milk. Often, so late, I cannot quiet my mind. It piles images upon images of what may come to be. This is helpful to no one, but […]
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They wanted him, again. That is what we are left to consider. This is as defining a moment in American history as the firing on Fort Sumter. It had been unimaginable that he could be elected again, that tens of millions of Americans could look at this bloated liar, this rapist, this convicted criminal, a make-up wearing, hairspray using thief, a coward, a President who tried once before to destroy […]
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After reading David Thomson’s The Fatal Alliance , I will never be able to watch a war movie as I once did, moved to respond by emotion, undiscerning in the flood, a willing participant in the common images and thematic patterns of most war movies. It is not that I have watched these movies with all the critical awareness of a potato. I catch the sentimentality of Spielberg and the bombast of Gibson. […]
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