America Gets Her Grouch On (AGAIN)

It should come as no surprise to “tweeters,” internet readers, and television devotees that the American taste for light comedy and objective journalism has been replaced by a rapacious, “take-no-prisoners,” mentality. In the age of Trump, this development has evolved in accord with the rise and fall and rise again of the Trump phenomenon. First […]

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Tale of Two Brothers

  Two Nobel Prize acceptance speeches.  Two splendid orators.  Two African American Men.  Forty-five years apart.  One was 48 years old and President; the other 35, a preacher and leader of the civil rights movement.  For both, war was the backdrop. Dr. King grappling with the war in Vietnam, President Obama with seven wars, notably […]

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Killers R Us

“The Gray Lady” has her pantyhose in a knot.  The “lady” in question? The New York Times, “regarded by many in the world…as the world’s greatest newspaper…generally hail[ed] as …gray by way of acknowledging its traditional special marks: starch conservatism and circumspection.” This encomium appeared in Life magazine in 1951, celebrating the Times’ 100th birthday. The […]

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We Must March My Darlings (Right Into the White House)

We Must March My Darlings (Right Into the White House) November 8th was the beginning —a shorter lived facsimile erupted six weeks later when the electoral college made Trump’s inauguration inevitable — spilling out from left and right coasts and soon the howls of dismay could be heard in the heartland where the media, mainstream […]

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