H.L. Mencken wrote, “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen […]
Historians have argued that New Journalism “degenerated” into Yellow Journalism because the lofty, idealistic goals of New Journalism were quickly subsumed into sensationalistic pabulum as newspapers tried to out-do each other for advertising revenue. With so much competition between the newspapers, stories were over-dramatized and altered to correspond to ideas that publishers and editors thought […]
The USA was one of the world’s greatest mass social experiments; the only country to come into existence as a fully-fledged democracy, “By the People, for the People.” America was the land of the free, home of the brave; a beacon of hope for the rest of the world, blah, blah, blah… Sadly, America isn’t […]
The US century of American economic and political hegemony is collapsing right before our very eyes. Like so many of history’s past empires, petty idiocies and hubris appear to be accelerating this inevitable decline. The real winner in all this chaos is China. Xi Jinping only has to follow Napoleon’s famous advice: “Never interfere with […]
[The scene takes place inside the plush offices of IMAGEMAKERS, a major New York PR firm. A kindly old black man with white hair [Mr. Jones] is led into the inner sanctum. He shuffles quietly to one of the big leather chairs at the foot of the enormous desk of Carl Anderson, one of the […]
Donald Trump announced on Friday that he is appointing himself chair of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, adding that he is immediately terminating multiple people from the board of trustees as well as the current chair. Since President Trump made the announcement, his minions have been busy creating an exciting calendar […]
It’s a pattern historians have seen many times before: It starts with the quiet dismantling of oversight and the abolition of regulations, and it ends with institutions that serve only those in power. The US used to have strong institutions and a vigorous vocal opposition; but seeing these government watchdogs being laid off and summarily […]
I’ve always been a fan of American football. Ever since I was a kid, we never went to church – so Sundays meant football. Football was my dad’s favorite sport so he would lay in bed all morning watching the game. He’d come out of the bedroom in his white briefs – and not much […]
Former president Jimmy Carter recently died at the ripe old age of 100. Proof that only the good DON’T die young… He was the last truly good man to be President of the United States. Carter was only denied a second term due to the treasonous intrigues and machinations of a virtual parallel government run […]
The disgusting, racist jokes made by supposed comedian Tony “pinch a loaf” Hinchcliffe at Donald tRump’s Nazi rally Sunday night at Madison Square Garden have been widely condemned by all living beings on Earth, while the Republican Party simply doubles down on the hate. In front of the assembled GOP, Hinchcliffe insulted Puerto Ricans [for […]
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