In these days of pandemic, American democracy lies sick, burning not with fever but with fire. Every illness must come to one end or the other. Will she die, or will she get better? The[…]
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Category: Violence
A Statistic of One
This is a repost of a powerful poem by my late uncle John Gilmore, who was a US Marine in Vietnam, a substance-abuse counselor in civilian life, and a gifted poet in both realms. A[…]
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Animated Parables of a Broken World
It’s the 30th anniversary of three short animated films I saw when they were new, and never forgot. Some images can stick with you for a lifetime. When I was a teenager, in the late[…]
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Jordan Edwards: This Life Mattered
The story, in general outline, has been so oft repeated it’s easy to dismiss or overlook: Unarmed black teenager shot and killed by police officer. The facts and images in this particular case make it[…]
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The Trouble with Tarantino
The trouble with Quentin Tarantino, an unquestionably brilliant and iconoclastic director, is that there’s often a regressive undertone to his superficially progressive imagery. A self-proclaimed champion of the underdog, his brand of empowerment rarely comes[…]
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Strategies VII – Knowing the Stakes (is it all just PC hysteria?)
Complete Trump Strategy Guide This election, the far left finds itself in the position of the boy who cried wolf. After having directed protests against people as liberal as Bernie Sanders, it finds itself curiously[…]
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Strategies: Part II – The Three Losers (Fascist, KGB, KKK)
Complete Trump Strategy Guide God has put them into a deep sleep. To this day he has shut their eyes so they do not see, and closed their ears so they do not hear. ROMANS[…]
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Stopping Terrorism and Mass Violence
Our current conception of terrorism and mass violence, is that it’s a huge anomaly, a bizarre occurrence, and that it somehow spreads, like a virus, through a mysterious radicalization process. That may be true, as[…]
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