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• Who Will Win The Trade War - Trump Or China?

  

  Donald Trump unilaterally started a trade war with nearly the whole world. Currently, he has imposed a 10% tariff on nearly every country in the world -... Read more

  The 01 May 2025 by   Jobsanger
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• Belting Beltane

  

  Things have been so busy that I forgot that today is Beltane.  That’s all the more ironic because yesterday I’d been on a panel to address the British... Read more

  The 01 May 2025 by   Steveawiggins
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• First Visit

  

  Dark academia prompted me to do it. I have never read an Evelyn Waugh novel, but the title Brideshead Revisited is fairly ubiquitous. I’d heard it many times bu... Read more

  The 02 May 2025 by   Steveawiggins
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• Ethical Jews Must Renounce Israel

  

  My neighborhood still sports some “We Stand With Israel” lawn signs. This confounds me.I grew up Jewish, my mother escaped from Nazi Germany. Israel was a brigh... Read more

  The 01 May 2025 by   Fsrcoin
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• Trump Has Gone Too Far With Tariffs And U.S. Will Be Hurt More Than China

  

  The charts above reflect the results of the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between April 25th and 28th of a nationwide sample of 1,785 adults (including 1,626... Read more

  The 03 May 2025 by   Jobsanger
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• For the Camera

  

  Smile 2 is getting some good critical notice and I hadn’t seen Smile (1) yet. Psychological horror often bothers me, but I figured I’d grin and bear it. I’m gla... Read more

  The 03 May 2025 by   Steveawiggins
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• The Trump Regime: Bullshit All The Way Down

  

  For a decade now, U.S. news media have struggled over how to cover the maelstrom that is Trump and Trumpism. Trying to treat it all as normal news, when it’s... Read more

  The 04 May 2025 by   Fsrcoin
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• Telling Vision

  

  My wife and I don’t watch much television.  In fact, we had very poor television reception from about 1988 (when we married), until we moved into this house in... Read more

  The 04 May 2025 by   Steveawiggins
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• Many Politicians Are Now Embracing Ignorance

  

  The following is part of a post by Andy Borowitz:In my book Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber, I argued that, over the past... Read more

  The 05 May 2025 by   Jobsanger
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• Pseudo-documentary

  

  Documentaries have an honored place in visual education. Of course, there are some who want to spice them up a bit with dramatic re-enactments. These are... Read more

  The 05 May 2025 by   Steveawiggins
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