“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
They wanted him, again. That is what we are left to consider. This is as defining a moment in American history as the firing on Fort Sumter. It had been unimaginable that he could be elected again, that tens of millions of Americans could look at this bloated liar, this rapist, this convicted criminal, a make-up wearing, hairspray using thief, a coward, a President who tried once before to destroy […]
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After reading David Thomson’s The Fatal Alliance , I will never be able to watch a war movie as I once did, moved to respond by emotion, undiscerning in the flood, a willing participant in the common images and thematic patterns of most war movies. It is not that I have watched these movies with all the critical awareness of a potato. I catch the sentimentality of Spielberg and the bombast of Gibson. […]
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When I close my eyes at night, if it has been even a worse day than normal, volumes more MAGA venom spewed into the airwaves, more conspiracy, more raving about “scum” and “the enemy within”, more Nuremberg Rally vibes, more threats, then the visions come, the HG Wells stuff transmogrified, updated – concentration camps, dictators taking whatever they like, the end of Ukraine, women tracked during pregnancy, the country entering […]
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That house on Matinicus, 20 miles from the coast of Maine, an island that drops to about 50 human beings from September to June. For Sale: 3 South Rd, Matinicus Isle Plt, ME 04851 | realtor.com® There is the home that could be the end of distraction and the noise of 21st Century modernity, this post-democracy, post-intelligence, pre-just-another-few-months-away-cascade-of-catastrophes. The bunker, the haven, the last redoubt. There it is, the port of call to giving up on people, where the extremities of January […]
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