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• "Melania" Movie Is An Obscenity Perpetuating The Myth Of The Good Immigrant

  

  The following is by Inae Oh in Mother Jones:Melania is more revelatory in its world-historical vapidness than it might seem. Consider that Melania appears to... Read more

  The 03 February 2026 by   Jobsanger
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• The Movie Money Bezos Provided To The Trump's Was A BRIBE!!!

  

  The following post is by Robert Reich. I think he's absolutely right!I haven’t seen it. I hope you don’t, either. This, from one of the kinder reviews:“Across... Read more

  The 03 February 2026 by   Jobsanger
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• Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 (PT-17 Kaydet)

  

  @ Lancaster, TX May 2015 This Stearman taxies back to the hangar in the fading light.  Widely known as the Stearman, Boeing Stearman or Kaydet, it served as a... Read more

  The 02 February 2026 by   Htam
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• Coming out of Melancholy, Again

  

  I've written about my propensity to lapse into a melancholy state periodically, seemingly during the winter months, something I've reported on at length in an... Read more

  The 06 February 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Hip-hop & Violence, Misogeny, Etc.– From Shared Knowledge to Common Knowledge

  

  I'm copying this from Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen), which quotes a Roland Fryer piece in the Wall Street Journal: In a TED Talk released on Monday, I... Read more

  The 04 February 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Whose Smile?

  

  Amazon’s smile logo is a mask.  I use Amazon when I need something specific and I don’t have time to run around to six or seven stores to see if I can find it (... Read more

  The 05 February 2026 by   Steveawiggins
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• Don’t Tank It

  

  The Tank is a reasonably well done monster movie. It isn’t great, but monsters are monsters and they can be appreciated in their own right. The main problem of... Read more

  The 04 February 2026 by   Steveawiggins
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• Laughing Matter?

  

  I sincerely hope AI is a bubble that will burst.  Some of its ridiculousness has been peeking out from under its skirts from the beginning, but an email I had... Read more

  The 03 February 2026 by   Steveawiggins
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• That House

  

  In this season of deportations, thinking about what it means to be a refugee couldn’t be more important. The horror film His House makes you do just that. Bol... Read more

  The 02 February 2026 by   Steveawiggins
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• Hinge Years

  

  I recently read about “hinge years.”  Some historians use this as a kind of shorthand for a particularly tumultuous year in the history of the world, or of a... Read more

  The 01 February 2026 by   Steveawiggins
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