Archive - Another Take

July 2025

COMMON SENSE -AND STUPIDITY

In a recent essay for Consortium News, (a news and commentary on-line site I enthusiastically support and recommend) the historian, Vijay Prashad…

Jul 25

AN IN-COUNTRY SAMPLER

Among the most insidiously manipulative careerists in our government, an influential number at the highest agency level, –(I have no idea how many) are…

Jul 18

A RIFF ON THE STATE OF THE STATE

For anyone now, nine months into the Trump presidency, to admire the man, it must take something like the faith of those fanaticized thirteenth century…

Jul 11

WE’RE ALL WE’VE GOT

Democracy, as "very important people” have announced for as long as I can remember, is a clumsy political system, messy, wasteful and inefficient, -

Jul 4

June 2025

May 2025

My Ancient Family

It's being said around town that war with Russia or China may be permanently off the table; according to the latest straw poll taken recently by an…

May 30

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