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LIVE AND LEGITIMATE AREN’T ALWAYS LINKED

LIVE AND LEGITIMATE AREN’T ALWAYS LINKED

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The metaphor­i­cal beat­ing of breasts and rend­ing of gar­ments over CNNs’ “town hall” with Don­ald Trump is a salient les­son that pro­vid­ing live air time for proven liars and dis­sem­blers, not­ed for a pro­cliv­i­ty to con­trol the nar­ra­tive, is the equiv­a­lent of allow­ing them to write the script, and there’s enough of that done by flaks and syco­phants with­out adding to the pool.… Read the rest

THE AMERICAN KING CONUNDRUM

THE AMERICAN KING CONUNDRUM

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The out­pour­ing of pun­dit­ry, com­ments and edi­to­r­i­al car­toons in the U.S. media and on social net­works, express­ing every­thing from bemuse­ment to crit­i­cism and deri­sion over the coro­na­tion of King Charles III, has led me to pon­der what it is about the Amer­i­can psy­che, or at least that of a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of the pop­u­la­tion, that I don’t understand.… Read the rest