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DOWNFALL! Trump in the Bunker
This piece originally ran on June 3, 2020 and is one of a series of Trump-related articles we're republishing.
The image of the clot Trump being whisked by Secret Service agents into the White House underground bunker last Friday night (May 29th) to avoid the protests is a satirist’s dream come true. Excuse me for letting fly here.
What first comes to mind is the German 2004 film Downfall. It chronicles the last days of Hitler, Eva Braun, and the top surviving Nazi henchmen (including Josef Goebbels and his entire family) in the Berlin Bunker.
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All Shall Be Afforded Dignity: The Art of Norman Kaplan
London Exhibit April 22 to May 6, 2024, and on-line Brief Introduction: The following is an on-line gallery of a recent London art exhibit featuring the work of Norman Kaplan. Norman is my brother-in-law and he ...
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The Israel Project: The Beginning of the End?
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. –Winston Churchill, November 1942 Say what you want of the old imperious ...
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A Rainy Night in Georgia
In 1977, I was a signaler (radio operator) in the South African Army, the infantry. I was stationed in a camp called Mpacha, which was a few hundred yards from the border of Zambia in the ...
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On Sixto Rodriguez – The Sugar Man
Sixto Rodriguez, the Detroit singer and songwriter, died on August 8, 2023. He was 81 years of age. What follows is a short essay I wrote about him in July, 2012, the day after seeing the ...
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Some War Stories – with Don Hamerquist & Janeen Porter
On the Release of A Brilliant Red Thread by Don Hamerquist 06/21/23, Presentation at Brooklyn Book Event It has been my privilege to know and work with Don Hamerquist and his partner Janeen Porter for a ...
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EDDY GET READY, ROCK STEADY!: The Equals, Eddy Grant, and Trump
Most people who are old enough remember the reggae singer Eddy Grant for his popular radio song in 1983 called Electric Avenue. Fewer know about his earlier seminal London rock combo, the Equals. Eddy Grant is ...
Picture This, Shots in the Dark: Billy Monk’s Underworld
Repressive societies, like those ruled by regimes that rely on heavy policing to enforce state policy, have a way of creating unique situations and throwing up special characters. Often, the most interesting people are those who ...
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The Original A#1 – Lee Marvin Rides the Rails – At the Drive-In with Mike Morgan
I’ll never forget the opening sequence of the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven, the western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Sumarai. This is not because of the Elmer Bernstein Marlboro Man theme music. Nor is it ...
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Isandlwana, The Mother of All Battles
This particular written project got percolating in my head when one of my co-editors, John Garvey, told me this. John recently asked his granddaughter whether she had Columbus Day off from school. She corrected ...
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