Hampton New Hampshire Mad Dog Democrat

"The trouble with life is the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." --Bertrand Russell “Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”--Christopher Hitchens

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Unyielding Truth

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N ot until I had read "The Premonition" did I take down off my bookshelf a black jacketed volume I had received for Christmas fr...

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Alienated and Alone

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"Yet in some curious way it was a visionary experience: it had hit her in the middle of the body. She saw the clumsy breeches slippin...

Friday, April 16, 2021

Polygamy

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W hat does it matter to me whether my neighbor has one wife or five? What does it matter to me whether my neighbor is married to someone of ...

Monday, April 12, 2021

Nightmare in China: The Xinjiang Gulag

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There are usually two sides to every story, but reading Raffi Khatchadourian's "Ghost Walls" in the New Yorker (April 12, 20...

Friday, April 9, 2021

April 9, 1865

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" I think the Union Army may have had something to do with it." Variously attributed to Gen. George Pickett, Captain Robert Brig...

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Pardon My Pronouns

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I love the New Yorker, really I do. It has been a bastion of intelligence and critical thinking through some dark times. Now, of course, ...

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

George Floyd's Paraganglioma

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W atching just fifteen seconds of the video of the tape of Derek Chauvin with his knee on the neck of George Floyd (which I must say right...

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