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Are You Lonesome Tonight? Most Of The Country Is Too. Japan And The UK Have Loneliness Ministries
The new issue of The Atlantic  has an exhaustive killer piece by Derek Thompson about aloneness and loneliness, The Anti-Social Century —...
Howie Klein
Jan 914 min read
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Some People Abhor Trump As A Bringer Of Chaos— But So Many Voters Crave Chaos...
It’s Probably Why He’s Thrived In Republican Politics Derek Thompson shared the work of Danish political scientist Michael Bang Petersen...
Howie Klein
Feb 24, 20248 min read
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Are Enough Texans Mean Enough, Sad Enough, Disconnected Enough To Reelect Ted Cruz?
On Monday, David Brooks wrote an essay for The Atlantic, How America Got Mean. Americans are lonely, sad and disconnected, and we’ve also...
Howie Klein
Aug 17, 20237 min read
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The GOP Is Now A Full Blown Movement Of Social Collapse
There’s a really famous Luis Miguel, one of the best-selling Latino artists of all time with decades of worldwide hits. Then there’s the...
Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20227 min read
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Trucker Convoys & Protests Are Officially Welcome To Drive Into Kentucky & Texas
Tell 'Em Rand And Ted Invited You Anomie is well and truly taking over the West-- and just as Russia gears up for war! As we noted...
Howie Klein
Feb 12, 20226 min read
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And The Winner Is... Anomie
Nineteenth Century French sociologist Émile Durkheim described a kind of societal derangement which has come to be seen as anomie or...
Howie Klein
Feb 11, 20227 min read
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Is The Mush In The Middle Our Destiny? Damn, I Hope Not!
This morning, The Hill published an opinion piece by Bill Schneider, author of Standoff: How America Became Ungovernable. Schneider was...
Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20225 min read
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The Democrats May Suck, But The GOP Is The Party Of Dysfunction, Perfidy, Anomie & Violence
Washington Post reporters Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett broke the news today that the Department of Justice has a new unit to address...
Howie Klein
Jan 12, 20226 min read
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We're Anomic-- And That's Probably A Bad Thing
Because it was a strength in high school-- I knew more than the teacher and she would let me teach the class while she went out for a...
Howie Klein
Oct 7, 20214 min read
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Is The Fight Over The Debt Ceiling A McConnell Maneuver To Get The Dems To Kill The Filibuster?
Annapurna Capital Management, LLC is a private equity firm founded by Marshall Brandt, currently serving as a managing partner. I have no...
Howie Klein
Oct 5, 20217 min read
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Besides Bernie, Do Our Leaders Deserve Your Respect? So Why Do We Keep Reelecting Them?
There was a moment of unexpected joy and hopefulness among Democratic Party partisans when, on January 5, two Trumpist Republican...
Howie Klein
Sep 29, 20215 min read
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Aggressive Anti-Vaxxers Are Dying More & More Frequently-- Is That A Good Thing?
The man in this video seems rational but he was a fascist and a moron. "Was?" Yeah, not "is," because he had a horrible long drawn-out...
Howie Klein
Aug 28, 20216 min read
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Putin Got Far More Than He Paid For
Yesterday, Josiah Colt, a domestic terrorist from Idaho, a land of domestic terrorism, who had been photographed hanging from the Senate...
Howie Klein
Jul 15, 20214 min read
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Republicans Aren't Fooling Around-- They're Done with Democracy
More than a few states have moribund Democratic parties incapable of fielding competitive statewide candidates. Ohio and Florida and the...
Howie Klein
May 30, 20217 min read
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The GOP May Be A Domestic Terrorism Party, But It's Also A Silly Goose Party-- Both Are Dangerous
What a crazy headline in the NY Times yesterday: Far-Right Extremists Move From 'Stop the Steal' to Stop the Vaccine. Polling I've seen...
Howie Klein
Mar 27, 20215 min read
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