This is a Waterloo moment for Trump, the tea party and their alliance. They have been stopped in their tracks not only by Democratic opposition but because of a mutiny within their own ranks. Although never particularly liked or respected,…
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Steven Pearlstein: Mark this date: Donald Trump is now a lame-duck president – The Washington Post
Posted in Noted & Quoted, Operation American Greatness
Jonathan Freedland: With Trump it’s time to go beyond mere disgust – The Guardian
One seasoned Democrat told me that among the reasons Trump won in 2016 was that a long year of Crooked Hillary talk, about emails and Goldman Sachs and the like, had steadily demoralised and demobilised the liberal base. If sustaining…
Posted in Noted & Quoted, Operation American Greatness
(so: “the stationary state”) (oag #13)
(so: the stationary state, eroding entropically, searching for the crisis that may demand or allow for true “progress” – or mayn’t)
Posted in Neo-Imperialism, Operation American Greatness
David Wallace-Wells: When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans? – New York
[C]limate scientists have a strange kind of faith: We will find a way to forestall radical warming, they say, because we must. It is not easy to know how much to be reassured by that bleak certainty, and how much…
Posted in Ecology, Noted & Quoted
Jacket X
“The world of things calls for art, in which intellectual accession to being moves into enjoyment, in which the Infinity of the idea is idolized in the finite, but sufficient, image.” — Emmanuel Levinas
Posted in notes, Photography
Gutenberg: The Invention of the Printing Press, the Destruction of WordPress
Or at least that’s what some people seem to think about the new “page-builder” style editor with which WordPress.org seems to be planning to replace the current post editor…
For the Fourth: Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball, Booze, and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)
It welcomed the tests of time/
Like an eternal friend,/
Our country is blessed,/
Our country is such!
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