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February 23, 2017
Following in the Footsteps of Humanity
#PROTESTART @therealbanksy just tweeted this: #banksyatartspointyendofthespear #prayforbanksy #prayforprotestart #prayforhumanity Filed under: Culture Tagged: art, banksy, climate change, environment, environmental politics, EPA, global warming, government, humanity, Inconvenient Truths, litter, Politics, Protest Art, trash
Transgender Community* Trumped by the Arc and Bent of Autocratic Politics
WARNING! THIS IS A LONG POST: AS IS THIS ONE: My fury throughout the whole last campaign to and through the election until now has never been much about politics. Politics in this country, while they have been expanding outward … Continue reading →
Transgenders Trumped by the Arc and Bent of Autocratic Politics
WARNING! THIS IS A LONG POST: AS IS THIS ONE: My fury throughout the whole last campaign to and through the election until now has never been much about politics. Politics in this country, while they have been expanding outward … Continue reading →
February 22, 2017
A Musing
Cheek flares signify he’s in direct contact with the Literary Gods. Go[o]d things will be coming my way… prayformymusesFiled under: Humor Tagged: Aurelius, dog photography, dogs, literary, literary muses, muses, pet photography, pet videos, pets, photography, sleeping dogs, Zeno
“Post-apocalyptic fiction has been moved to our current affairs section”
I wish I were smart enough to be able to claim this post’s eye/brain-catching headline as my own. But, alas, I cannot because I got it from this read-worthy #longread of an article written by John Feffer, a journalist and … Continue reading →
February 21, 2017
“The Way” of Technology
Well, my bold Westworld binge-watching bonanza proclamation turned out to be nothing more than a bunch of ballyhooed BS… I only got through the fourth episode before running out of time. Consequently, I can’t provide anything much in the way … Continue reading →
Inside the National Museum of African American History & Culture
President Trump visited our nation’s newest national museum today and provided a few remarks afterwards, a video of which can be found below. I have not yet visited the museum so I spent some time learning a bit about it. … Continue reading →
Meet our 2016 National Book Award Winner
Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he wrote reviews of television, books, and music… COLSONWHITEHEAD.COM 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER “[A] potent, … Continue reading →
February 20, 2017
Two important observations so far from Mattis’ trip to Iraq…
The first observation: Mad Dog Mattis must be mad as hell for having to humiliate himself by being the face of our national apology for Trump’s war-crime declaration that we should have and still just might take Iraq’s oil; not … Continue reading →
H. R. McMaster, Reporting for Duty, Sir!
Well, since Trump scared away all the qualified civilians who might have been remotely interested in taking over as his new National Security Advisor, he had to put on his Commander-In-Chief cap and order an active duty general officer to … Continue reading →
