Mon, Mar 10

2020—“Just stay calm,” says Dolt #45. “It [Covid] will go away.” 2004—Pres. George W.[MD] Bush is surprised to learn that 1) his Terrorist Surveillance Program expires that day, 2) his lawyers won’t renew it, and 3) his A.G., who will, has been in the ICU for a week. In a bedside standoff, Bush’s team loses. 1993—A Florida man stands up for the sanctity of life by putting three fatal slugs in Dr. David Gunn’s back. 1992—Injected with poison by Okla. state workers, Robyn Lee Parks gasps and gags for 11 minutes before dying. 1974—With police corruption “systematic at all levels,” Philly Mayor Rizzo tries to …

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Sun, Mar 9

2007—Newt Gingrich admits, as he runs for president, that he committed adultery while impeaching B. Clinton. 1992—Donald Trump files his second bankruptcy in eight months. 1986—Divers locate the crew compartment of the Shuttle Challenger. 1982—It’s revealed that the Contras have gotten $19 million in covert aid. 1969—Terrified CBS execs nix the Vietnam drama “Sticks and Bones.” 1969—Terrified CBS execs cancel “The Smothers Brothers.” 1965—Racists fatally beat Boston minister James Reeb in Selma, Ala.; a white jury soon acquits the suspects. 1954—WMUR-TV does it live. 1954—Ed Murrow dismantles Joe McCarthy on CBS. The network assures nothing like that happens again. 1941—Writer Sherwood Anderson dies of peritonitis …

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Flood the DOGE Zone

Dear Editor: Patience wearing thin and horror growing, we dissidents out here should snail-mail postcards to Musk at DOGE, telling him five things we did last week. Address: Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 1650 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20504. My five: 1) Feb. 17th Presidents’ Day protest in Concord, N.H. (against Trump and Musk’s attack on our democracy). 2) Critical-of-him postcards sent to Trump and Chief-of-Staff Susie Wiles. 3) Feeding my five hens and collecting their eggs, cleaning their room before trip to Palm Beach (condo there). 4) Taking canned goods and a warm winter jacket to the homeless in Tilton, N.H., several men being …

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When Do Clothes Make the Man?

The so-called United States of America* seems to have entered a new phase of being. Let us call it a state of quantum politics. Quantum physics, we are told, is the study of how matter and energy behave at the most fundamental level. Quantum politics is the study of how power behaves in an unprecedented environment where traditional legal and moral restraints have been removed, and a significant portion of the public has seceded from reality. Tuesday night provided a fine specimen of this new regime in operation. The person recently re-installed at the head of the Executive branch—despite two prior impeachments, a slew of …

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