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Tower of Babel

I have quoted Gombrowicz before, allow me to repeat myself – or, rather him, – once more. Only this time at more length: “I stopped by the cafe where a group of young poets, Concreto-Invencion (or maybe it was the group Madi), gather every week. There were always ten poets yelling at each other in […]

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Paris and Refugees

One more quick word: How wrong is it to reduce or stop entirely our willingness to accommodate refugees fleeing from the middle east? The knee jerk reaction on the right has been to call for a total halt to that willingness. What a horrible and un-American reaction. Since 9/11 America has steadily exhibited a cowardice and […]

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One Word: Guns!

This is off topic, but really? One of the defining characteristics of the modern Republican party is its gun worship.  Any time we have a major crime involving shooting – which is far too frequent for an erstwhile civilized country – somewhere one of the Republican candidates for the presidency will pop up and argue […]

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