Passionate Progressive

This is from the NYT – don’t know how much will be readable w/o a subscription (which I don’t have).  But the title says it all.  I’m copying the entire piece here.

LINK TO NYT ARTICLE

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This is a long read but it covers a lot of taken for granted themes of mass culture.
The official excuse for every war is always the same: self-defense. It’s okay to kill other people and destroy their society because that’s what they want to do to us.
As Hermann Goering said, “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . J…[Read more]

It’s a matter of convenience. For the Democrats it has been super-convenient to blame Mrs. Clinton’s defeat in 2016 on Russia, although key aspects of that case (Russian “hacking” of the DNC, for example) have been debunked.

But, don’t go away, Russia, not just yet. The MICIMATT still finds you convenient as the kind of “threat” it can cite to ju…[Read more]

I doubt that her IQ is up to her shoe size – but her mouth is another matter.