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Monthly Archives: January 2017
TCS: Old Friends and Ghosts Who Are With Us Yet
Good Morning! ___________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
whether POTUS45* lasts six months or more, there remain ‘alternative facts’
By ann summers One betting shop lost five million dollars on HRC winning the White House in 2016, so unpredictability rules still about the construction of facts. And then there’s probabilty and the machinery of government, perhaps compelling POTUS45* to … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: January 22, 2017
January 22nd is Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day Blonde Brownie Day National Hot Sauce Day * Southern Food Day Roe v Wade Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Shah Jahan, Elizabeth Blackwell and Gertrude B. Elion, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Arthur Miller, Beatrice Webb, Edouard Manet, Elizabeth Blackwell, Gertrude B. Elion, Sergei Eisenstein, Shah Jahan
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POTUS45* an inaugural speech forgettable
By ann summers They gaslit CNN with the “Fake News” lede that POTUS45* wrote his own speech. Maybe he or the Mar-a-lago concierge really did it in the lobby. There were mostly tweetable moments cribbed from campaign moments in … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Government, History, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Society, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, inaugural, Journalism, Media, Politics, speech
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ON THIS DAY: January 21, 2017
January 21st is Granola Bar Day Squirrel Appreciation Day * Hugging Day * … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: January 20, 2017
January 20th is Buttercrunch Day Cheese Lover’s Day Day of Acceptance * Disc Jockey Day Inauguration Day Penguin Awareness Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! John Marshall, Crystal Eastman and Felix Frankfurter, click
Word Cloud: ODYSSEY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) made a long journey in a short life, before she died from leukemia a month and a day before her 48th birthday. In the years prior to her death, she published four volumes of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Death, Donald Hall, Dysthymia, Farm, Jane Kenyon, Leukemia, New Hampshire, Odyssey
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POTUS45* – Creative Destruction & Heritage Foundation will finally kill National Endowments for Arts & Humanities
By ann summers A spoils system also accommodates those GOP shibboleths that represent LBJ’s Great Society beyond their usual attack on civil rights, so anything else remotely undermining the US ruling class becomes fair game. Maybe this time around … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Government, Government Propaganda, History, LBJ, Media, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Donald Trump, Media, Music, Politics
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ON THIS DAY: January 19, 2017
January 19th is National Neon Day * Popcorn Day Tin Can Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Edgar Allan Poe, Janis Joplin and Yasser Arafat, click
ON THIS DAY: January 18, 2017
January 18th is Gourmet Coffee Day Peking Duck Day Thesaurus Day * Winnie the Pooh Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Damaris Cudworth Masham, Thomas Sopwith, and Walter Winchell, click
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