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Award-winning Novelist, Teacher, Actor, Songwriter. Identifies kindness, calls out BS and cruelty 💙📚 #booksky. Politcal Thrillers & Historical Fiction
Imperfect Burials / The Trouble with Wisdom / The Last Redwood Circus
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The slave states from 1850 - 1865 did huge damage.
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An informed citizenry was the highest ideal in our republic's early days. The largest federal budgetary item was -- get this -- subsidizing postal costs of mailing newspapers ... of all stripes and beliefs, which allowed all sides of issues to be presented so voters could make informed decisions.
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Hypocritical? Let's just say "Lawless."
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And an endless stream of apologies.
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Bought? My ass! He can sell it to me for the same price Elon sold it to him. I like freebies.
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Remember when the GOP attack was "Dems want death panels?"
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Amended:
"....stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring or fostering here at home--fascism."
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Caught by the camera doing his pelican pouch imitation.
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Can't we agree he has such good instincts for bringing people together?
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Fighting tyranny with knowledge.
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The E. E. Cummings of political wisdom.
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And he could be the first pope on Mount Rushmore! Now that's winning all Americans will support.
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Same thing they did in Trump 1.0.
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Because there is no road on that far hillside.
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I think it is the beach just north of there. The Lost Coast.
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Looks like The Lost Coast.
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Nice turn of 'fraid.
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This shines!
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Check the bathrooms in Mara-lago.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Cuts.
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What part of autocracy don't you understand?
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And support of arms, intelligence, and infrastructure supplies.
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Lettuce pray his word salads are quickly tossed into the history bin.
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A great feeling, isn't it?
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He'll call all the dead popes losers and suckers.
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Coming in second . . . which is good, except that there are only two teams.
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T. C., where is this?
(Big fan here.)
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That's the game plan of what biologists call parasites.
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So important.
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Made me laugh.
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Beards and neckties.
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Love the sentiment of this post, but as a history buff from Lexington, the first revolution wasn't organized... it was organic, erupting from the hearts of people who had had enough.
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Blaming the patient is the new medical science.
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Sorry, I feel like I've just suffered a concussion.
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A masterful allusion. Who will grasp this great turn in the war that was lost?
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And MAGAs pretend the 2nd Amendment is to protect against a tyrannical government. 'Ooops!' should become their operative word.
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Don't see "Relaxation" in the job description (or the Constitution.)
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I've researched Lithgow and replied in a thread below. Thanks for cluing me in to your reactions. Always good to learn. Honest and fair debate is a way forward for us all.
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Here, he is a reader as Snyder’s messenger. Killing the messenger negates Snyder's work. If that is your priority here, I understand. But I can't place Lithgow's reading, right or wrong, above Snyder's work, because of the power of the message and danger of the times. 3/3
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In any case, humans are complex, so we would do well to allow for that, particularly when an issue like tyranny is in the mix. Placing one issue over others is everyone's right. If the work was Lithgow's and he's a dog, it is fine to point that out. 2/3
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A thread re: Lithgow reading On Tyranny and messengers.
Listened to Lithgow's reading. Nothing THERE suggested ground for upset. He acted in Harry Potter and Rowling typecasts re: patriarchy and gender.
But the actor in a role is working. Characters' views AREN’T synonymous with actors’ beliefs. 1/3