Puffin’s Place

There is not much hopeful or good that can be said about the right wingers in the U.S. They are without vision, without humanity, without ethics, without a sense of history, without an interest in the present and the future, and wholly absorbed by themselves, their own wallets and tight-assed convictions, and frightened to death [...]

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I just saw the newish (?) documentary on Dalton Trumbo, the 40’s and 50’s Hollywood screen writer who chose defending the First Amendment over ratting out friends who joined the Communist party in the 30’s when no one else was doing squat to confront the fascists.
We will come back to Trumbo’s intellectual excellence in [...]

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Good for Obama and the Nobel Committee. He has not yet done all I hope for, but he has totally fulfilled my grinding desire to have a president in whom I can be proud and of whom I can say that he represents the best that is in the US.

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