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by HPR Contributor | Last Word | May 31st, 2020
…by Marie HoffWe greet each other very carefully,Like porcupines getting ready to make love.Arms in big virtual, barrel hugs,Lots of embarrassed joking and chokingHoping we don’t look as foolish as we feel. Hope rises and falls, and rises againLike the panting of a small injured bird, testing Ms. Dickinson’s thesis,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 31st, 2020
…Are We Close To Hearing The Last Clicking Of A Stoplight?Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker, has been creating provocative and entertaining columns for many years. She also was a speech writer for President Ronald Reagan. I call her a true conservative, not a fake…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 31st, 2020
…Another significant 2020 title skipping theatrical release for digital platforms, Josephine Decker’s “Shirley” premiered at Sundance in January, where Decker received a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking. “Shirley” marks yet another career milestone for the dynamic filmmaker as she moves in the direction of wider accessibility and…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | May 26th, 2020
…#14 of On Tyranny: Establish a private life. – “Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your computer of malware on a regular basis. Remember that email is skywriting. Consider using alternative forms of the internet, or simply using it less. Have personal…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | May 26th, 2020
…#6 of On Tyranny: Be wary of paramilitaries – “When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 24th, 2020
…Democratic Socialism Rescues Disaster Capitalism—AgainOur elected representatives are currently appropriating trillions of taxpayer’s dollars to save our economy from the ravages of COVID-19 and disaster capitalism. Here we go again. Economists who have studied capitalism for many years say that recessions and depressions happen about every 8 to 10 years…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 23rd, 2020
…The most compelling and powerful idea in Kitty Green’s compelling and powerful film “The Assistant” resides in the network of complicity protecting the predator/stand-in for Harvey Weinstein and those like him. Green expresses, in the microcosmic minutiae of office-life orbit, a detailed picture of institutionalized harassment and mistreatment. Even though…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 19th, 2020
…Caity Birmingham is a production designer who lives in Los Angeles. We have been friends for a long time, and originally bonded over our mutual appreciation of teen movies. In addition to that genre, she also loves costume dramas and apocalyptic sci-fi. Caity works on feature films, and also does…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 17th, 2020
…Something Is Not Rotten In DenmarkWilliam Shakespeare, writer of my favorite play Hamlet, was born in Stratford-on-Avon, England during a plague year. Thomas Nashe, a contemporary, wrote a short poem A Litany in Time of Plague to commemorate serious plagues in England during 1564, 1582, 1592-93, 1603-04, 1606, and 1608-09.…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | May 12th, 2020
…“(the Federalist authors) saw that government must rest upon the will of the majority, but they saw too that majority rule must be tempered by a system of checks and balances designed to safeguard fundamental liberties and give time for sober second thought. They saw…the important distinction between the jurisdiction…