Aaron Blake at the Washington Post helpfully points out that the Republicans gave up on their government shutdowns in 1995 and 2013 when their poll numbers with the American people crumbled. In both of those precedents, the...
Read MoreFrom Counterpunch. (Emphases mine) Read on:1/23/19 Time for the U.S. Yellow Vests by Paul Street Here are seven things you won’t hear much if anything about in the reigning corporate media regarding the ongoing...
Read MoreWelcome back, music lovers. This is diary 100 in the series. I did not expect this to continue this long. Last week I mentioned that you could probably characterize me as an Eno prog – Brian Eno was certainly...
Read MoreIt was flattering when Felix Sater reached out to me to see if I would follow up on my idea to write a screenplay based on his life, but I’m really not very interested in getting mixed up in his business. The idea was...
Read MoreMy friend The Voice In The Wilderness posted a comment in my most recent pro-Beto O’Rourke piece Beto: A Response To The Question “He talks pretty. What has he done?”...
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