Category: Live Bullshit Free
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Are Republicans Hard Wired To Be Mediocre?
There’s a moment at the end of the movie “Amadeus” where the character Salieri — the court composer to the Hapsburg Empire — looks to the priest weeping in front of him. The priest had come to hear Salieri’s confession but got way more than that. Salieri has just confessed to, more or less, murdering…
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The Truth Is, America’s Never Actually Been Very Good At “Democracy”
As shocking as it is that we’ve come to this, it’s even more shocking that, to a third of the country, “this” makes them happy. They’re glad America has come to this. Racists are never going to like Democracy because every election is a gamble — that is, if you let everybody vote. The whole…
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Republicans Love Their Kool-Aid The Way Other Americans Love A Good Glass Of Wine
Nobody with an “R” next to their names has any delusions about who or what Donald Trump is. When they surrendered their party to him, they did it knowing exactly what the outcome would be — because they wanted what he wanted: permanent power. Republicans are playing for keeps because they have to. It’s all…
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First & Foremost, Slavery Was Stolen Labor
If I steal your car, I’ve stolen something you bought using money you made from the sweat of your brow. If I enslave you, I cut out the middle man as it were. I don’t have to steal your car to get what was yours, I steal your labor directly. It’s more efficient. More ruthless.…
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How WOULD America Act If Trump COULD Finish His Authoritarian Coup D’Etat?
We are living through the most jaw-dropping story no writer could possibly write (and get away with). But the rules of storytelling still apply — because storytelling rules are based on how human beings behave. When storytellers get human beings wrong? The people listening to their stories bail. The stories no longer make sense because…
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The Rule Of Law Didn’t Let Us Down, We Let IT Down
Laws don’t enforce themselves. People have to do that for them. If people don’t enforce the rules they created for themselves, they shouldn’t be surprised when the rules stop being followed. The Great Experiment that is the United States is its reliance upon law — not an individual ruler’s whims — as the basis for…
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Of Republicans & Rabbit Holes: Dr. Fauci Edition
The Trump White House — a literal house of lies — wants America to believe what it says versus what an actual doctor says about how best to handle our coronavirus response. That’s while America becomes the one country on earth (aside from Brazil maybe) that can’t handle the coronavirus because it can’t help lying…
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Will Covid-19 Be The End Of Feature Films & Movie Theaters?
I’ve been writing & producing feature films & TV shows for 35 years. Boy, has this business changed. And then changed again. In 1985, when I arrived in Los Angeles from the East Coast, the feature business and the TV business were strangers to each other. One did not cross over freely from one to…
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An Ode To Waking & Baking
My mind’s a blur when I awake, That is, until I let it bake. The coffee’s strong and dark and hot, A sip or two, a hit of pot. The caffeine “turns the lights on”, sure, But cannabis actually “opens the door”. There’s no magic here, no “hocus pocus”, Indicas make you sleepy; sativas give…