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Comments on “The Press Has Adopted Trump’s Reality-Show Standards”

Comments on “The Press Has Adopted Trump’s Reality-Show Standards”

Like it or not  the public must first be entertained.  Advertising  executives and priests and shamans before them know that. For a message to be understood by the mass majority it must be presented with style. Intellectuals and academics and

Prairie Raine July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Opinion, Politics No Comments Read more

Why not the South?

Why not the South?

Interesting read and makes sense to me. I personally think the obsession with the Trump voters in the industrial states is as much a representation of the wish of the old white male segment of the party to keep the

Prairie Raine July 19, 2019July 25, 2019 Opinion, Politics No Comments Read more

A Tutorial on States Rights vs Civil Rights

Following this first round of Democratic Primary debates I am impressed with the quality of virtually all of these Democrats — Proof of why an open welcome to diverse candidates is so valuable and I think necessary. Public office is

W_L Watkins June 28, 2019July 6, 2019 Opinion, Politics Read more

Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee: Trump’s mental health is now a “national and global emergency”

News Item on Salon https://www.salon.com/2019/06/14/yale-psychiatrist-bandy-lee-trumps-mental-health-is-now-a-national-and-global-emergency/ I join everyone in frustration of the awful helpless conditions we find ourselves in. But this is not a tv movie when we can expect a hero to show up fix things, then turn off

Prairie Raine June 16, 2019July 6, 2019 Civbil Liberties, Opinion Read more

Notes on Guns and How we got Here

Notes on Guns and How we got Here

NOTES ON GUNS History: As a physician and political liberal I personally will not be satisfied until guns and all the instruments of violence disappear.  The following are observations, notes and opinions of the history of the Second Amendment, the

Prairie Raine June 16, 2019July 9, 2019 Guns, Opinion Read more
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  • An Anatomy Lesson October 20, 2019
  • It is Time to Pick up the Gauntlet August 8, 2019
  • White Men With Guns August 8, 2019
  • Comments on “The Press Has Adopted Trump’s Reality-Show Standards” July 29, 2019
  • How Good Men Do Evil July 24, 2019
  • Why not the South? July 19, 2019
  • The Devil Made Me Say It July 19, 2019
  • Once More. It is the Moderates Eating the Soul of the Democratic Party July 15, 2019

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