Nullius in verba
Kavanaugh, Trump, and the Republican Congress are finally on the verge of doing what right wingers and centrist Democrats have been trying to do for decades — crush the values and achievements of American liberalism, especially as it expressed itself in the counterculture in the United States in the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s. If there […]
When members of the United Nations laugh at the President of the United States, not at a joke, but at a preposterous ascertain of being “the best,” you can viscerally feel what the rest of the world really thinks about American exceptionalism and about Trumpian exceptionalism. When Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Senate GOP misogynists claim […]
American government and politics look more and more like the three-layer structure of the internet as described in the September AARP Bulletin out last week. That’s part of the reason why it is increasingly difficult for citizens to understand what their government is doing. Most of us live in a distracted vacuum dominated much of […]
Memoirs of the great gifts : the miracles of kindness, geode midnights: the universe a cave of stars securely filled with Eros, photosynthesis, the unimaginable delight of light, of warmth of any kind, body peace, dawn thrill, sweet death when you need it. Miracles of kindness, of someone knowing what you need to hear and […]
It’s still amazing to me after all these years how the vast amusement park of the news can distract us so thoroughly from the most intimate life and death matters. Even when you say it directly — we are more interested in the freak shows of Trumpian politics than we are in the purity of […]
Some hot afternoons when the battlefield of the news is filled with butt ends of breaking follies, you can hear flies buzzing all over American political culture. Swarms of gnats teeming with Trumpian hubris drive many of us to silly states of raging impotence or whimpering escapism. It truly is the chaos of bedlam. Some […]
Some well-educated and thoughtful friends of mine are so offended by President Trump and his cronyocracy that they say our system of government is broken beyond repair. The graft, corruption, news twisting, propaganda, the president’s seeming imperviousness to the rule of law and his administration’s environmental atrocities and abysmally inhumane immigration policies have made our […]