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Word Cloud: INCURSION
by Nona Blyth Cloud In an interview in the Kenyon Review in 2103, the poet Solmaz Sharif was asked: What have you learned about the writing process in the last five years? “…I’m surprised to find that in addition to … Continue reading
Posted in Homeland Security, Iran, Poetry, Terrorism, United States, US Military, Word Cloud
Tagged Ahwazi Arab, Ethnic Cleansing, Incursion, Iran-Iraq War, National Poetry Month, Solmaz Sharif
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Word Cloud: OUT-OF-FASHION
by Nona Blyth Cloud Popular interest is a fickle thing. This year’s critically acclaimed, best-selling novel may be completely forgotten five years from now, and then re-discovered a couple of decades after that when Hollywood finally makes a movie out … Continue reading
From Ronald to The Donald: “There are Two Donald Trumps” like there are (at least) Two Amerikas
By ann summers We’ve moved from figures of speech to violent acts of speech on bodily figures; the history of the GOP and its Southern Strategy is now manifest in its ur-candidate, the WWE The People’s Bro-maniac tRump. As Ben Carson of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, California, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Free Speech, Government, History, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Police, Progressives, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Society, State Government, Tea Party, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Donald Trump, Law Enforcement, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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Word Cloud: EMIGRANT
by Nona Blyth Cloud Emigrant – a person who leaves their homeland. Lisel Neumann’s family left Germany in the mid-1930s, moving to Italy, and then France, because her father was a political dissident. By 1939, he had found work in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Germany, Immigrants, Poetry, United States, Word Cloud, World War II
Tagged Claude Monet, Emigrant, Lisel Mueller, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Google versus GO – it’s enough to commit seppuku
By ann summers Like John Nash’s humiliation in A Beautiful Mind, it may be the case that like Mishima’s loss to Kawabata for the Nobel Prize, our lives may be determined by more banal activities. In Nash’s case it’s a … Continue reading
Posted in California, information Technology, Internet, Japan, Media, Movies, New Jersey, Science, Society, South Korea, Sports, Sports, Technology, Television, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged board games, computers, games, GO, google, nobel prize
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Word Cloud: MIGRANT
by Nona Blyth Cloud “Poetry is a call to action and it also is action. Sometimes we say, “This tragedy, it happened far away. I don’t know what to do. I’m concerned but I’m just dangling in space.” A poem can lead … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Mexico, Poetry, Terrorism, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged Charleston, Juan Felipe Herrera, migrant, Paris, US Poet Laureate
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virtue signalling Trumpites don’t care if politics, like pro wrestling, is sport or entertainment
By ann summers Do voters subscribe easily to Personality Cults? And can one base entire political candidacies on them as signalling and identify them by their discourse? Are they examples of pro-/con- discourse games as the Democratic candidates spar towards Philly and opportunistic mischief-makers … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Blogs, Celebrity, Conservatives, Democracy, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Humor, Libertarians, Media, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Politics, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Propaganda, Richard Nixon, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Society, Sports, Television, Trolls, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Republicans
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College continues to suffer the RWNJ objections to ‘anti-American’ campuses due to a ‘disbelief that liberalism still survives.’
By ann summers There are cyclical media stories over decades about business and medical graduate school programs wanting student recruits who have had a liberal education. The problem represents a continuing crisis of retraining and adapting higher education to not simply the needs … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Conservatives, Dept. of Education, Education, Education Policy, History, information Technology, Internet, Liberals, Libertarians, Logic, Media, Music, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Philosophy, Progressives, Renaissance, States, Technology, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Higher Education, liberal arts
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