HENRY GRIMES IS 80 TODAY

Jazz great Henry Grimes celebrates his 80th birthday today! You all know how much I dig him at this point. I look forward to hitting his birthday bash this Friday. In case you can’t see Grimes in person this week, watch this clip of him performing at an Arts for Art event earlier this year […]

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DON’T CALL THEM MIGRANTS

Some of you are aware of my editorial policy of not burning electrons and time debating over trivial things like the isms and schisms of labels — unless even the most subtle of nominal permutations can mean the difference between framing an important truth and maintaining a social or political falsehood. But calling the ramped-up […]

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COME ON, HILLARY. YOGA??

I had a laugh this morning when I read about Hillary Clinton sharing her secret for withstanding the day-long House accusatory assault by the Party of No Brains, who are hell-bent on giving Clinton the hardest time about the chain of events leading up to the deadly jihadist attack on the US diplomatic compound in […]

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IS ASSAD CORRECT ABOUT US-SPONSORED TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

Embattled Syria President Bashar al-Assad has always said the rebels currently fighting to remove him from power come from terrorist organizations, but he took his accusations a step further yesterday on Iranian television by calling terrorism in the Middle East a “New” Western tool designed to subjugate the region. President Bashar al-Assad to the #Iranian […]

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RANDOM RUSSIA-ISIL-US THOUGHTS

Russia, now on its fourth day of bombing Islamic State and other terrorist fighters in Syria, estimated that its operation will conclude in 3-4 months. This means Russia will have been able to accomplish what the US has been trying to do for over a year — “degrade and destroy” ISIL. Remember that? Russia’s success […]

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RUSSIA’S BOMBING AMERICA’S BASTARDS

Perhaps I should explain the title of this post before discussing Russia’s bombing campaign, currently underway in Syria. After a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cabinet called a certain Latin American head of state a “Bastard” for being a particularly nasty dictator, Roosevelt offered a swift response that’s indicative of US proxy policy: “Yes, […]

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