Category: Miscellany
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Dear National Security Establishment, Please stop your collective freak-out about North Korea. The power of that country’s weapons lies mainly in our inability to tolerate any risk whatsoever.
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Jeet Heer’s provocative commentary in the New Republic is worth a read: “America Has Always Been Angry and Violent.” The historical rhetoric he offers is startling. I definitely need to read more U.S. history.
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YouTube video: Performance of an earlier, prizewinning composition by my son, while at the San Francisco Conservatory.
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Bandcamp recording: music composed by my son.
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YouTube video: The latest from my brother
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Sign at a local bookstore, Kramer’s, lambasting Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. “Bookstores: Your Alternative Department of Education.”
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Political cartoon: After the latest Spiegel cover and all the news it embodies, this cartoon by Sam Machado feels really good, particularly with its use of gender against the U.S. chauvinist-in-chief.
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German magazine cover with color drawing of Trump brandishing Liberty’s head in one hand, blood dripping down, and a big sharp knife in the other. Caption: “America First.”