Category Archives: politics

Fair or Unfair?

In the course of an ultimately frustrating and pointless conversation online today, I found myself thinking of the multiple meanings of fair in English–at once, “light-skinned/light-haired”, “beautiful”, and “just, even-handed”. The meanings are so different that I wondered if they … Continue reading

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Vote No On Issue 1

Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man Remembering the Past and Looking to the Future After Having Voted NO on Issue 1. And a Glass of Water.

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ΧΑΟΣ

I don’t know if you knew this about me, but I’ll buy a book every now and then. Because I am not a crazy person (anyway, I’ve never been officially diagnosed), before I’ll buy a book I see if I … Continue reading

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Four Dead in Ohio

May 4, 1970

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Truth or DARVO?

I was reading a harrowing story (at Vox.com) about the Vallow-Daybell murders which mentioned the concept of DARVO. It wasn’t brand-new to me, but I had sort of forgotten about it, even though the thing itself is as common as … Continue reading

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Paranoia Will Destroy Ya

I just got the Hofstadter volume from the Library of America and I’ve been enjoying/suffering through a reread of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”. “Enjoying” because Hofstadter is a knowledgeable and deeply insightful writer with a dryly witty style; … Continue reading

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The Dark Tower Is Thrown Down

Happy Downfall-of-Sauron Day, but remember: “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.”

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Video From Different, Better World

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How Antigovernment Parties Govern

“But I didn’t think the saw would saw off the branch that I was sitting on!” cried the Party of People Sawing Off the Branches They Were Sitting On.

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We Have Been Here Before

Eve Edwards writes an interesting piece at The Focus about previous SNAFUs in electing the Speaker of the House. In 1856 they finally settled on a member of the Know-Nothing Party, which is probably something that would appeal to modern … Continue reading

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