“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
The maniacs are out there screaming on the other side of the hill. They are coming closer. They are moving with astonishing speed. The American Republic is being smashed by Trump and Musk and by the Republican Party as their supine collaborators. With a few exceptions, the utterly feckless leadership of the Democratic Party stands by wringing their hands. The maniacs are preparing to gut medical research, public schools, all […]
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Robert Angell , the greatest baseball writer of my lifetime, once answered a critic who asked him why baseball should be taken seriously and why it should be given such weight in the life of the country, this at a time when baseball was the most popular American professional sport. Angell knew the history of the sport. He knew about its long trail of racism and about the financial exploitation of its […]
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Trump has allowed Elon Musk to send computer engineers into Federal Agencies, illegally of course, and systematically rewrite code and even shut them down . In light of these continuing actions, I sent out this email this morning to family and friends: A disturbing but timely suggestion from the leader of the Northern Chester County Democratic Party from our meeting last night: In light of Elon Musk’s intrusion into and destruction of Government […]
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We are 11 days into his Presidency and after the blizzard of executive orders, after the appointment of the moronic and the malicious to lead government offices, after the first wave of lies, after the consolidation of billionaires in his support, after the gleeful cruelty, after the earliest wave of power grabbing, after his assertion of monarchical power, one point is clear. Nothing is going back to what it once […]
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