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Continue reading →: Emergency … to Avoid an Emergency
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on “Meet the Press” earlier today, enunciating a wonderful principle for the expansion of government power, when you declare a national emergency to … avoid a national emergency. Here’s the full “Meet the Press” interview.
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2243
Song of the Day: Concorde [YouTube link], composed by the incomporable jazz guitarist Joe Pass, is featured on the 1977 album, “Quadrant“. Joining Pass on this album are vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Mickey Roker. On January 13, 1929, the great Pass was born. (A day late…
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Continue reading →: A New Donroe Doctrine?
Ellipsis points may drop context, but they introduce some interesting implications: Postscript (15 January 2026): Some folks thought I’d lost my dialectical mind by dropping context. Now let’s bring context back in. Check out S. E. Cupp’s article in the New York Daily News: “A Tale of Two Trumps: Iran…
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Continue reading →: Heated Rivalry
For those adults in the room who are so inclined, I want to heartily recommend “Heated Rivalry”. Created, written, and directed by Jacob Tierney for Crave, a Canadian streaming service, the show made its US debut on HBO Max right after Thanksgiving, and concluded its first season on December 26,…
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Continue reading →: You Think Our Country’s So Innocent?
Back in July 2016, when I predicted that Donald Trump would win his first campaign for the White House, I wrote skeptically about the coming “Trump Revolution.” I was encouraged by only one thing: That Trump might foster a less interventionist foreign policy than, say, Hillary Clinton. He was belatedly critical of…
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Continue reading →: Happy New Year!
A Happy and Healthy New Year—full of love and promise—to all my family and friends!
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Continue reading →: TCM Remembers
Turner Classic Movies has an end-of-year tradition of running a robust remembrance of those talented people who have died and whose cinematic legacy lives on. If only the folks who run the Academy Awards could be as thoughtful in their annual “In Memoriam” retrospective!
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Continue reading →: What’s In a Name?
Many of you know that I’m half-Greek and half-Sicilian. I’ve often joked that my mother’s parents were born in Olympia, Greece—home of the gods and goddesses, while my father’s parents were born in Porto Empedocle, Sicily—home of the godfathers. I like to think of myself as a Brooklyn Dialectical Synthesis,…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2242
Song of the Day: Bob Dylan’s Christmas Waltz [YouTube link], composed and performed by Hayden Jones, offers a lovely melody that I have used as the backdrop for a mini-slideshow of this year’s necessarily scaled-down Christmas decorations for my apartment. I have to thank my friend Ryan Neugebauer for introducing…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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