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Monthly Archives: November 2016
How Does It Feel?
We’re in a hostage crisis. And a fog. What I think those of us who are white males haven’t absorbed yet about this election is that there’s no being a “citizen,” male or female, second-class or otherwise, in a liberal … Continue reading
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Donald Trump’s Victory and The Ending of The Planet of the Apes
Well, I’m searching for something that reflects accurately the emotion evoked in me by this election result. When the past year was ongoing, it was the ending of Hitchcock’s The Birds that seemed the apt metaphor for what I was … Continue reading
Trump, Hitler, Whites Who Did Not Attend College, and Tuesday
Don’t kid yourself. This is still tight. Trump’s bet is on the same demographic Hitler made his bet on in 1933: the non-college educated who live outside of the cities. In places like Berlin, you had many highly educated people … Continue reading
Posted in atheism, climate change, donald trump, feminism, hillary clinton, Politics, Ted Cruz, Uncategorized
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Donald Trump and Emily Dickinson: An Apt Quote and Poem for the Run-Up to Tuesday’s Election
This quote captures for me a lot of the pre-election feel of this weekend: “Asked earlier Friday aboard Air Force One en route to North Carolina what the president makes of a country that has not more clearly rejected Trump, … Continue reading
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Hillary, Not Monica: John Sununu, Donald Trump, And Misogyny In 2016
Misogyny. One of the saddest moments for me in the run-up to Tuesday’s election is reading this morning of a joke that John Sununu–a 77-year-old Trump surrogate, former governor of New Hampshire, former chief of staff to George H.W. Bush, … Continue reading
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Trump Can’t Read–And Yet Will Have The Nuclear Biscuit?
Samantha Bee here is being funny–and yet her theory is troublesome because so plausible. Maybe Trump can’t read. Or, at least, not well. Are we really about to elect–in the 21st century, and to the highest office in the land–a … Continue reading
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On Donald Trump, Jon Stewart Spoke and Louis C.K. Did Not
The majority of voters may literally–literally–be on the cusp of voting a fascist into the White House. A fascist. I don’t use that term loosely. I mean a real fascist. Yet here’s what I read at USA Today this morning: … Continue reading
Ur-Fascism: What Would Umberto Eco Say about Donald Trump’s Movement?
I hope to be pleasantly surprised with a Hillary victory announced on the day after the election next week, but I’m nevertheless bracing for a Trump win. And in wrestling with what this past year has meant, I find myself … Continue reading
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