ON THIS DAY: December 7, 2016

Posted on December 7, 2016 by wordcloud9

December 7th is

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International Civil Aviation Day  *

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National Cotton Candy Day

Special Kids Day *

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day *

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ON THIS DAY: December 6, 2016

Posted on December 6, 2016 by wordcloud9

December 6th is

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Microwave Oven Day *

National Miners’ Day *

Mitten Tree Day *

National Gazpacho Day

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Pawnbroker’s Day

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Bannon/Trump’s Make America crypto-fascist (Again) … #MAGA just like the 1930s

Posted on December 5, 2016 by ann li-summers

 

 By ann summers

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What are the directions for the disinformation campaigns of the now post-truth Trump regime that will repress populations by means of contradictory rationalizations or outright lies.

So much traditional ethnic hatred, so little time. Modernity’s issues of ethnicity and the modern state seem to be played out in vivid detail for various regions including the US election of 2016. And yet it is the interwar fear of Communism and Fascism that creates the foundation for our current rationalizing discourse.

Trump is an Ur-Fascist for the New Red Scare(s)

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ON THIS DAY: December 5, 2016

Posted on December 5, 2016 by wordcloud9

December 5th is

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Comfort Food Day

Repeal of Prohibition Day *

Sacher-Torte Day *

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World Soil Day *

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TCS: The Better Angels

Posted on December 5, 2016 by wordcloud9

Good Morning!

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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 comment.

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“…Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? …

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years…

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature….”

– Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address 1861

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ON THIS DAY: December 4, 2016

Posted on December 4, 2016 by wordcloud9

December 4th is

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Cab Franc Grape Day

Earmuff Day *

National Cookie Day *

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National Sock Day

Wear Brown Shoes Day

World Wildlife Conservation Day *

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Tainted Love or Yuppie Scum: the lathe of Heaven on Earth

Posted on December 3, 2016 by ann li-summers

 

After 8 November 2016, all we have left for us is to gnarful the Garthok or immanentize the eschaton

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ON THIS DAY: December 3, 2016

Posted on December 3, 2016 by wordcloud9

December 3rd is

National Peppermint Latte Day

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Roof over Your Head Day

SKYWARN Recognition Day *

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International Day of Persons with Disabilities *

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ON THIS DAY: December 2, 2016

Posted on December 2, 2016 by wordcloud9

December 2nd is

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Bartender Appreciation Day *

National Fritters Day

National Mutt Day II *

Special Education Day *

Faux Fur Friday – First Friday in December

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery *

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Word Cloud: CONFLUENCE

Posted on December 2, 2016 by wordcloud9

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by NONA  BLYTH CLOUD

Susan Ludvigson is a paradox. She has published nine collections of poetry, and a couple of chapbooks, but her “biography” listings are one or two paragraphs about the number of fellowships she’s been awarded, and that she has spent much of her adult life teaching, mostly at the university level. Not even her birth year is listed.

This is as personal as the bios get: “She teaches at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband, novelist and short story writer Scott Ely.”

Those of you who follow Word Cloud regularly may remember a striking poem of hers entitled “After He Called Her a Witch” that became part of Word Cloud: PHANTASM this past Halloween. Her poems do illuminate her inner life – a dream landscape at once strange and familiar.

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