Down With Tyranny

feat. Howie Klein

Feb 248 min read

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...

Feb 22, 202322 min read

There Were People Like This When I Was 20 Too--They're As Much A Waste Of Time Now As They Were Then

It's Unlikely Anything Good Will Come Out Of Wyoming This Century Marjorie Traitor Greene tweeted that “everyone” she talks to agrees...

Dec 13, 20226 min read

Some Very Tragic Deaths Of Very Young People

I was kind of melancholy last night, having watched the last episode in the Andy Warhol Diaries series on Netflix. It was about death--...

Oct 11, 202223 min read

The End Of Everything That Stands, The End-- No Safety Or Surprise, The End

There's Danger On The Edge Of Town I booked a Doors concert at Stony Brook for a welcome back to school concert on September 23, 1967. I...

May 8, 202210 min read

Impoverishment Of The Soul: Gay Conservative Closet Cases-- Ed Koch Finally Outed

A dozen years ago this month, notorious California Republican closet case, former leader of the Golden State's GOP homophobic movement,...

Jun 8, 20214 min read

You Feel Normal? Or Like An Outlaw? Just Askin'

Jean Genet's classic Thief's Journal, set in 1930s Europe, was published the year after I was born. Reading it as a young man, I could...

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