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“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
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- Long Read of the Week: JASON WHITLOCK — “Black Pride Religion Ordained By White Liberals Taking Black People And America Straight To Hell”
- Boomer Anthems: Nights on Broadway (“Here we are / In a room full of strangers”)
- “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” — Orwell
- Theodore Roosevelt on the 5 things that will destroy America
- Gestapotime: Germany is Back
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I bought this book based primarily on it’s cover.
Still have it.
https://www.amazon.com/Andy-Goldsworthy-Collaboration-Nature/dp/0810933519
Sooooo cool to see the book from Stuart Dybek! He was my English professor for creative writing at Western Michigan University back in the late 1970s. Awesome human being, great teacher, and a wonderful writer.
I mush admit I have bought many a book judging by it’s title.
For example who could have resisted, back in 1984, buying The Moon’s Fire Eating Daughter, by John Myers Myers?
I had that Goldsworthy book too. Fantastic.
Sigh.
Apostrophes, chillun.