“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
As the President sinks into the mire of his own creation, gurgling of conspiracies and witches, growing smaller with each tweet, we might turn our attention to the good man who has haunted him, Robert Mueller, a Marine decorated for heroism , a public servant, the hunter of Noriega, John Gotti and the Flight 103 Lockerbie killers, FBI director as appointed by both a Republican and Democrat, and now at 72 silently gathering evidence, […]
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Soren, white bearded Scot, says the word in Danish, his second tongue: bombefly … bomber. He is telling me stories because I asked. Born in 1940, he remembers crouching with his father behind a stone wall listening to the buzz-drone of a V-1 over London, to the engine cutting out. He remembers waiting for the explosion. He remembers standing at an RAF airfield and being immersed in the clamorous […]
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On November 6, please, VOTE Democratic . We are in exile in our own country, one where Trump and the Republican Party employ hatred of the most vile sort to acquire and hold onto power. VOTE. In Texas they moved children by night, in secret, to tent cities where they will reside under who knows what kinds of conditions. Look at the internment of babies in American Gulags and tell me that […]
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Provincetown in mid-October feels like a piece of a favorite arrondissement in Paris if Paris were cradled by the sea. It possesses the same combination of narrow, winding streets, the surprises of small shops packed closely together, more coffeehouses than I could count, 19th century homes abounding in flowers, erotic emporiums, book stores, a theater, many galleries, a wonderful library , the Pilgrim Monument above it all like an attenuated Eiffel Tower, older […]
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