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    Garbage Time: Running Out the Clock on America?

    April 16, 2025

    “Do you not weep? Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out” Webster is well known for the darkness of his plays. When he says murder shrieks out, I wonder which murder he is referring to. Or, perhaps, what is being murdered? These are dark days for freedom and democratic governance. Yes.  I am grumpy this […]

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    Trump as Mun?

    April 10, 2025

    We need new indices. We need new phrases. We need new frameworks. We need new, well, everything. If there’s one thing we have learned in that past week it is that the current American administration is overseen by a egomaniacal fool.  A dullard who basks in the glow of constant hyperbolic praise flowing from the […]

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    Democracy?

    March 12, 2025

    How can we save or restore democracy if we are  unclear what it is? So: what is democracy for? People have been opining about democracy for ages.  Definitions have been getting ever more refined and cultured.  Sometimes they can seem pretty vague and lost in an abundance of cleverness.  Many of them center on intellectual […]

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