Tag: Volume 270 | No. 26 - Page 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Mon, Sept 7

2003—Warren Zevon sleeps. 1996—Two women walk into the Norfolk (Va.) Naval Base with a banner reading “Love Your Enemies.” They’re promptly arrested. 1988—“Today is Pearl Harbor Day”: WW II vet George H.[H.]W. Bush. 1977—In the Oval Office, Eric Gairy, Grenada’s PM, presents Jimmy Carter with an invitation to visit from the supreme leader of Titania, a moon of Saturn. Zbigniew Brzesinski asks, deadpan, if Carter, were he to visit, would be expected to give a speech. 1974—R. Nixon, irate that G. Ford is demanding a show of contrition, issues a threat: if Ford doesn’t pardon him, he’ll accuse Ford of promising a pardon in exchange …

Sun, Sept 6

2010—Alabama prison officials ban the reading of a Pulitzer-winning history of Black forced labor. 1978—The U.S.House opens hearings on the assassinations of JFK & MLK. On Dec. 30th they conclude that conspiracies were likely. 1966—The second term of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is cut short by five stab wounds. 1949—World War II vet and devout churchgoer Howard Unruh kills 13 of his N.J. neighbors in 12 minutes. 1939—Britain’s legendary Spitfire gets its first ‘kill.’ It’s a British Hurricane mistaken for a German plane. 1939—FDR OKs FBI investigation of “subversive activity.” Oops…. 1934—Dan Beacham, Super at the Chiquola Mill in …

Lake Trump

Dear Sir, Effective immediately and in perpetuity, I hereby officially rename the water in my toilet bowl Lake Trump. William D. Ehrhart Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania William: Well, that’s settled. Neatly done. We notice that you make no claim to exclusivity. Given the near-ubiquity of such facilities in separate and distinct real estate parcels all over the nation—and the world—we see no reason why others who may be so inclined should not emulate your exquisitely appropriate designation. The Editor –=≈=– Shaheen is a Pragmatic Democrat To the Editor: Having run in and been elected to local and state offices we know the effort that is needed not just to …

Russian Potato Dumplings

by W.D. Ehrhart I inherited a “fat gene” from my mother. She was maybe 5’4” or 5’5”. When she got married in 1943, she weighed 103 pounds. When she died in 1990, she weighed over 300 pounds. Her younger brother was in ROTC in college, so he couldn’t have been too heavy back then, but by the time I was old enough to remember him, he was badly overweight, obese really. Others of her siblings had weight problems, too. In 9th grade, at age 14, I had a double chin and used to have to buy my clothing in what were called “husky” sizes. By …

The Politics of Agency

by Richard M. Balzano The algorithm-driven debate-industrial complex recently gifted the internet another installment of its ongoing effort to merge cable news, professional wrestling, and civic collapse into a single monetized spectacle: Jubilee Media and Straight Arrow News released a video titled “1 Journalist vs 20 Trump Supporters” in which constitutional law attorney-turned-journalist Glenn Greenwald volleyed geopolitical common sense into a clown car of personalities parroting curated conservative talking points and outright falsehoods about the Iran war—“Operation Epstein Fury.” I highly recommend the video to anyone wishing to observe the effectiveness of propaganda and the failures of the American educational system in real time. Among …

Interesting: on Tuesday, “The Grey Lady” caught up with us. Ever since we snuck into Lord Kenneth of Fleet’s stable of newspapers and rode away on The Nation’s Oldest Newspaper,™ we’ve been sounding the same barbaric yawp. Our more recently established colleagues went on reporting as if governance was proceeding more or less along the lines laid out centuries earlier on parchment. In contrast, our assumption, from the start of our stewardship, has been that journalism, as it was being practiced, mostly served a prop to hold up the façade of a Potemkin reality. The opinion section of The New York Times for September 1st …