The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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GOP in disarray

By artappraiser on Tue, 12/07/2021 - 3:26pm |

(Valdez is running against Lauren Boebert)

Colton Underwood Comes Out and Comes Clean

By artappraiser on Mon, 11/29/2021 - 11:50pm |

I had no idea that reality TV had come such a long way from the improved stereotypes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. If we're not going to get them to read, at least they're getting the complexity of a good novel. -

A good example of how the rich of today

By artappraiser on Thu, 11/18/2021 - 12:31am |

are not the same as the rich of the Reagan era:

Nov. 2 ELECTION ANALYSIS

By artappraiser on Wed, 11/03/2021 - 10:22pm |

Brilliant parody is back on SNL

By artappraiser on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 2:05am |

One of my personal favorites is the look on Mellen's face when Kyrie is vaccinated

What a surprise, BLM 2020 was a big FAIL

By artappraiser on Sat, 10/23/2021 - 2:54pm |

Everyone went out and bought handguns for self-protection precisely because large numbers of people were protesting about reducing police. Some were even rioting and looting, mostly in the "blue" cities. It's a stressful time with a pandemic going on, and changes in economy and society. Now everyone with new handguns are trying to shoot one another when they are angry, to dominate messy situations, but they are often not so good at using the guns so there is lots of "collateral damage". So there's lots more violent crime. So the results in 2021 are totally counter BLM goals:

Growing share of Americans say they want more spending on police in their area (Pew, Oct. 26)

Gridlock

By artappraiser on Wed, 10/20/2021 - 4:15pm |

Protesters causing it. TOTALLY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. The system as built and which people currently have to use to survive: roads for vehicular traffic. The only people who have a positive reaction to your protests: the lucky who don't have to get anywhere.

Independent Senators? Part II

By artappraiser on Tue, 10/05/2021 - 5:57pm |

(Part I is here.)

CIA veteran Evan McMullin has launched a U.S. Senate campaign in Utah — as an independent — to oust Republican Mike Lee.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 5, 2021

more after the jump

Other peoples' history, good & bad, Part II (besides "Afro-American History")

By artappraiser on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 10:02pm |

Good exchange of letters in the NYRB in which Sean Wilentz briefly summarizes the most compelling reasons not to regard the United States as founded on white supremacy https://t.co/zz7PRGMgvX pic.twitter.com/HxRwRp1GJV

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 2, 2021

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