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The End
If you chanced to pick up a paper one day and saw that some mosquito country you’ve barely heard of elected an ignorant TV dingdong as President, yoy might be sad. Or laugh at how strange they are. Well, that’s us. The most powerful country in the world just did this. Through fear, a bonedumb media, a terrifyingly ignorant populace, a party dedicated to revanchist ignorance and straight racism, and a population that was meaner and dumber than I ever imagined. That’s America. Where Donald Trump is President, and where we’ve lost the right to call ourselves decent. That, finally, is the only story of the night: the end of what proved to be a collective delusion of goodness.
Quick thoughts on the exercising of my franchise
Did you, comrade?
Thoughts on my the top of the ballot, some other elections, and a surprising endorsement for a Lucas County, OH, judge.
1-Week Reminder: Donald Trump Is Still On The Ballot To Be The President of the United States of America
Pictured: the scene at Trump Tower
The email scandal raises troubling questions, namely: why are we talking about emails when Donald Trump still has a chance to become the most powerful person in the history of the world?
The Kurdish Question: What Is Owed To The State In A Post-State World?
Refugees from Mosul at the Syrian border, remaking the region. Image from aranews.net
With the region in flux, what is owed to the Kurds, and what is owed to the idea of the state?
Trump at the Al Smith Dinner: A History of Being a Goddamn Moron
Fun fact: 2/3rds of the people in the center row are terrible and have ludicrously retrograde ideas about women. You get three guesses!
The Al Smith Dinner is supposed to be easy. Trump is too much of a child to even accomplish that.
Ain’t it Just Like the Night? Bob Dylan’s Deserved Nobel Prize
What is literature? It’s the beautiful total of our human ambitions. Bob Dylan captured them.
Paul Kagame and the Arc of History
Does the man make his time or does time unmake the man?
Rwanda’s Paul Kagame is taking on France again. His career is a demonstration of the tragedy of history
What’s The Strategy in Russia’s Aleppo Insanity?
The agony of Aleppo
Russia is enabling and aiding a world-historic humanitarian disaster and war crime. Why?
One Last Trump Post: Reminder! He Doesn’t Know Anything About Anything
The Germans had no idea we planned this, apparently.
Trump thinks that announcing plans to retake a city is the same as giving away troop movements.
Shooting Irrelevance 