Author: Don Durito

Midweek Cafe and Lounge Vol. 9

Let’s start with a video that in many ways embodies my values as a human being: The song was one originally performed by Bob Marley, whose work I have admired for more years (now decades) than I would probably want to...

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Stand up for what matters

And whatever we do, let us never forget what has happened not only during the last eight or so years, but the organizations (media and otherwise) who cultivated the very fear and loathing that is now clearly ascendant:I listened...

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Where do we go from here?

That is the question that will vex us for a while, I am guessing. At the moment, I am going to share a few links that at least offer some tentative answers. More below the fold:First and foremost, let’s forget about...

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Midweek Cafe and Lounge Vol. 8

“Well the first thing I’m gonna say is mandate, my ass!” Dropping some Gil Scott-Heron tunes: “Winter in America”: He had our number back in the 1970s and 1980s, and he’s still relevant...

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Shorter Comey: Oops

After FBI Director Comey really stepped in it last week by sending Congress a cryptic letter about emails that may or may not be pertinent to the earlier investigation that had cleared Clinton, we now get this missive from...

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