“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
Maybe I’m making that terrible mistake of imagining I know something about the inner lives of our crew of national leaders and tech edge lords – Trump and Musk, Altman, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Andreessen, so many others in this American epoch of brutality and decay. Actually, I imagine emptiness, a zone of disinterest or worse, a generalized, free-floating contempt. Not a howling void, but a brightly lit, almost blinding echo […]
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To paraphrase Emily Dickinson, I measure every happiness I meet, and friendship is one happiness that helps mightily to keep despair away, especially now. My friends occupy a range of ages and genders and spectrums of affinity. They call forth several of my personas (not one of us is monochrome). Even when I have not seen them for a while, their loyalty to and influence on me hovers close by. […]
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Every morning brings new outrages and novel depths of depravity and corruption. We forget last week’s dire news because we have trouble keeping anything straight anymore – the end-of-days technology of AI and Data Centers, and oh Jesus so loves our lethality, and yes, Trump is Jesus, more people disappeared by ICE, after everything we know, powerful men are still resigning in the face of sexual assault accusations, Iran is […]
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When a better writer than you captures something better than you, go with the better writer. This is as good a summary analysis of the past 6 weeks of obscene comedy and slaughter that I have read. Mike Trump’s Strategic and Moral Failure in Iran From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world. By David Remnick April 10, 2026 Photo […]
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