Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Strange Principle of Class Guilt

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  T he idea that because one member of a group, or "class" of people is guilty of a crime means that all people of that class ough...
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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Oh Happy Day! Blonde Immigrants!

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N ever let it be said that wishes don't come true in Trumpland.  The Guardian: 4/8/24 "Donald Trump bemoaned a lack of immigrants t...
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Friday, May 9, 2025

Suspend Habeas Corpus! Invasion from South Africa

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  P resident Trump has long said he could not understand why the only immigrants who seem to want to crash the gate are from "shithole ...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Pretend Democracy on the Cheap

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  L ast night about 50 members of the Hampton Democrats Club, sometimes ironically referred to as the "Young Democrats Club" (medi...
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Lynching immigrants: The Display of Cruelty is the Point

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  A dam Serwer, back in 2018 wrote in the Atlantic Monthly, "The Cruelty is the Point," in which he noted that the Trump mob celeb...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Lynching and Spectacle: Trump's Model

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  A my Louise Wood published a book in 2011 called, "Lynching and Spectacle," about the Jim Crow South during the 1950's--that...
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Sunday, May 4, 2025

RFKJR and True Believers

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  C leaning out the drains in the sinks and shower of my bathroom this morning put me in mind of autopsies and biology and ultimately, of Ro...
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