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The Face Of Evil
We tend to think of Evil as A pretty specific ‘brand’. Rotten-to-the-core — that’s Evil. Unspeakably cruel — also Evil. Bond villains — Evil By Design. Evil tends to get splashed across billboards. We don’t usually think of the words ‘Evil’ & ‘banal’ in the same sentence. But, in the Pantheon of Evil —…
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The Pee Tape – My Guess At What We’ll See…
From the get-go in this story, the chimera of a ‘Pee Tape’ has floated in and out of the fog. Certainly the possibility that such a tape could exist bothered Donald Trump to no end. And our natural predeliction — just hearing the subject matter — is that such a tape would have a pisser…
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Want To Know What The Fuck Is Going On Here? Ask Some REAL Storytellers.
If they had two brain cells (so it’s already a strawman), our news media would pull a lot more STORYTELLERS onto their Talking Head Panels. Yeah, sure, journalists and other ‘doodlers’ are ‘storytellers’ in that they’re ‘trying’ to tell a story — but they always tell a story more like someone to whom stories get…
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The Shocks Have Only Just Begun…
No one said Cultural change would be easy. Our sexism and innate dislike of women is pretty much ‘in-bred’ at this point. We’ve spent thousands of years putting women at an extreme disadvantage in every way — except as a baby machine (and even then we’re usually ‘doing it’ wrong). We, in essence, threw a…
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Eve’s Revenge
I’m into messaging. It’s a writer-thing. No matter how big or grandiose a story, there’s usually a relatively simple message at the core. A thousand pages of War & Peace: ‘Don’t Fight, Play Nice’. Two hours of ‘Waiting For Godot’: ‘He’s Not Coming – That’s The Point’. See? Simple. When it comes to messaging, nothing…
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Ladies: Stop Wanting the ‘Princess Thing’. Seriously. It’s So Not You. At Least It Shouldn’t Be…
The news that an American actress was going to become ‘A Princess’ got all kinds of hearts aflutter this morning. It got some irony bubbling away too. A lot of those hearts belonged to some very good female reporters who had just been working at the top of their profession and professional abilities to report…
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America’s ‘Russia Problem’ Is Not A Constitutional Crisis – It’s An EXTRA-Constitutional One…
The Framers of our foundational documents tried to cover most everything they could think of — that was relavent to them — when they created those documents. Some things they covered but ‘insufficiently’ (see ‘Slavery’). And, while the gents who penned the Constitution COULD envision foreign attempts to ‘persuade’ an American president (see ‘Emoluments Clause’),…
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Why, Why, Why don’t American Journalists Ever Ask ‘WHY’?
I start with the premise that journalists are storytellers. If I’m wrong about this, somebody, please — explain. No one? (Good — the question was loaded anyway). Then, I’m going to hold journalists up the same high standards that your average, run-of-the-mill storyteller is held to (or they’d never sell a thing). Rule #1 where…
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Are You The Storyteller Or The Person To Whom The Story’s Being Told? It Matters.
I wake up every day (these days) to the same conundrum (that word again!): I find myself ‘scratching my head’ about the fact that I am, yet again, SCRATCHING MY HEAD. I’m not even talking about the state of Perpetual Agita that every sane person experiences daily when confronted with the constant flood of of Trumpian…
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Cannabis Vs Alcohol
From Business Insider — http://www.businessinsider.com/alcohol-marijuana-which-worse-health-2017-11/#30722-americans-died-from-alcohol-induced-causes-in-2014-there-have-been-0-documented-deaths-from-marijuana-use-alone-1