Category: Politics
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On Reading Inga Clendinnen’s “Reading the Holocaust”
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I think I know, rather, I believe, how my writing mind works, which really means I know shit about it. In any case it goes like this: sink into books about the Holocaust or just this one and let it all percolate and seep through my unconscious filters until it…
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Pollution and Palin
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I am convinced more than ever that we all need to turn off our TV sets. At the gym this old fart works out in, I get angry voices if I choose not to watch ESPN; after all, sports are the thing in a gymnasium, not news. I have to…
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The New Goebbels Of The Airwaves
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Watching Glen Beck on Tuesday, 1 September, I heard this pastiche: I am a self-educated man…I put myself through school…I am a clown…My daughter disagreed with me on a historical point so I studied history… I read about the Progressive Movement in this country…Goebbels studied this movement to learn about…
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On Glen Beck
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Chubby, pudgy, with brush haircut, always wearing poorly coordinated clothes (tasteless, like himself), small specks of dry skin on the right side of his lower lip, with elaborate and future jowls, he reminds me of ignorance dressed in knowledgeabilty, much more entertainer than commentator, stuffed like a turkey with opinions on…