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The Mark of Zohran
Published by Admin on October 19, 2025What does Zohran Mamdani want for himself and New York City and how might that change should he win
2 CommentsSic Transit Gloria Mundi
Published by Admin on September 24, 2025Speaking as I was the other week about Hell, I can expect to be in purgatory any minute now. As I have to work fast…
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Published by Admin on September 12, 2025Many say we live in hellish times. Let’s unpack what that might signify, as there are conflicting accounts going around as to what qualifies.
Leave a CommentNew York Times Intellectual Says Higher Education Breeds Nihilists
Published by Admin on August 22, 2025David Brooks has done it again; castigated the left for the sins of the right. In a recent NYT op-ed he says “conservatives … feel drenched by a constant downpour of progressive sermonizing.” Feeling oppressed by “educated elites” drives the more extreme of them to want to tear down the system. Not so fast, sir…
Leave a CommentMurder, He Wrote
Published by Admin on August 4, 2025Review of Thickafog by Caleb Mason
An Evocative and Literate Island Murder Mystery
Artificial Stupidity
Published by Admin on July 18, 2025AI came close to ruining my Monday, rendering a consumer product shopping expedition Kafkaesque. It wasn’t funny, but I still might have the last laugh.…
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Published by Admin on June 18, 2025Open in Browser You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows —Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues Ah, but when it comes…
2 CommentsPutting Immigrants on Ice
Published by Admin on May 12, 2025We’re in a new ICE age that is freezing the bejesus out of our constitutional rights
Leave a CommentComing Together but still Apart
Published by Admin on April 22, 2025Thirteen hundred protest rallies flooded across every state and ebbed with barely a ripple of notice from the news networks. Easily a million people converged…
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