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Mary Miller in The Boston Globe
Mary Miller in The Boston Globe
“So many people in power have been plainly declaring their ugliest beliefs and plans lately that it ironically has become hard to hear them all. But our collective future depends on hearing the signal in all the noise.” An opinion piece begins with House Republican Mary Miller (IL-15), and her infamous “historic victory for white life” gaffe/not-gaffe.
#MaryMiller
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Mary Miller in The Boston Globe
Last words
Last words
“Mike Pence let me down”: Donald Trump’s last words before leaving the West Wing circa 6:00 p.m. on January 6, 2021.
#narcissism
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Last words
What matters
What matters
Adam Kinzinger (R, IL-16): “Oaths matter. Character matters. Truth matters.” Harmonizes nicely with what Representative Adam Schiff (D, CA-28) said in 2020.
#democracy#truth#autocracy
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What matters
Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) raising a clenched fist for the crowd (not yet mob) at the U.S. Capitol. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) running down a Capitol hallway, then down a flight of stairs, fleeing to safety.
#democracy#truth#autocracy
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Juxtaposition
The last movie-rental clerk
The last movie-rental clerk
In The New York Times, a profile of the last movie-rental clerk in New York City. The little theater attached to the rental store reminds me of the Snark Theater in Daniel Pinkwater’s The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (1982).
#film
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The last movie-rental clerk
Don’t call him MBS
Don’t call him MBS
NPR: Please, stop calling Mohammed bin Salman MBS. He is not a brand like BMW or IBM. He is not a hip-hop star like DMC or DMX.
#names#NPR
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Don’t call him MBS
Proust on paper and film
Proust on paper and film
Manuscript conservation and a documentary about a group of Proust readers in Buenos Aires.
#Proust
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Proust on paper and film
Ellington at Uwis
Ellington at Uwis
Fifty years ago, July 17–21, 1972, it was Duke Ellington Week at the University of Wisconsin.
#DukeEllington
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Ellington at Uwis
Another Miller vote
Another Miller vote
Mary Miller (R, IL-15) was one of just eighteen members of the House of Representatives (all Republicans) to vote against H.Res. 1130, a resolution expressing support for Finland’s and Sweden’s applications to join NATO.
#MaryMiller
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Another Miller vote
Gilead
Gilead
“We are turning into Gilead”: Jonathan Capehart on the PBS NewsHour just now.
#freedom
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Gilead
Words from Ralph Ellison
Words from Ralph Ellison
Words from Ralph Ellison that I’ve long carried in my head started knocking around in there yesterday, so I added them to the Words to Live By in the sidebar.
#RalphEllison
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Words from Ralph Ellison
Menthol trickery
Menthol trickery
Here’s a deeply researched and deeply disturbing book: Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021), by Princeton historian Keith Wailoo. Wailoo begins with Dave Chappelle’s question: “Why do black people love menthols so much?” The joke answer, of course: “Nobody knows.” But tobacco companies and advertising consultants know.
#cigarettes#smoking#advertising
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Menthol trickery
Our tube
Our tube
Herb Edelman, Margot Kidder, Cynthia Nixon, and David Soul, all in the Murder, She Wrote episode “Threshold of Fear” (February 28, 1993). Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.
#pleasuresoftelevision#MurderSheWrote
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Our tube
Humble crow
Humble crow
A guest on the PBS NewsHour just now: “That’s why I’m eating humble crow this afternoon.”
#idioms
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Humble crow
A waitress speaks
A waitress speaks
The diner scene in Five Easy Pieces made me think of Dolores Dante, from Studs Terkel’s Working.
#film#work
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A waitress speaks
UNHINGED
UNHINGED
“The west wing is UNHINGED”: Cassidy Hutchinson, in a text message sent during the December 18 meeting between Trump, White House aides, Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell.
#democracy#autocracy
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UNHINGED