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June 2012

Succinct and incisive: “American Extremists”

Today I thought I’d feature a few more examples of an excellent cartoon series I’ve discovered called “American Extremists”.  I’ve created a little panel featuring some of my favorites from recent weeks (see below), which I hope you will enjoy as I do (though I admit these cartoons sometimes make me lament the sometimes unwieldy complexity and busyness of my own efforts… Read More »Succinct and incisive: “American Extremists”

What I do when I’m not composing impassioned, verbose blogs…

This year I’ve taken on a couple of sizeable reading commitments — Tolstoy’s War And Peace and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (one with a small group of friends, the other for a seminar) — in addition to my normal non-fiction (news/current events) book reading and occasional fiction-for-fun… both of which have been scaled back in recent months in order to accommodate Tolstoy’s… Read More »What I do when I’m not composing impassioned, verbose blogs…

And now for my Colombo impression — “Just one more thing…”

Having recently concluded my five-part series on identity politics (“Black Face/Identity Politics Is for Suckers”), I admit I’ve been feeling the tiniest bit pleased with myself.  With this effort, I have offered the most detailed, measured (I think) accounting yet for my displeasure with the President, my best attempt yet to reach out to self-identified liberals who, near as I… Read More »And now for my Colombo impression — “Just one more thing…”