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K “We are.”
J “We sure are.”
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Archive for the Culture Category
Oh, And Happy Thanksgiving! (November 24, 2025)
Posted in Culture, War on November 24, 2025 by e-commentary.orgCharlie Kirk: Assassination As A Public Policy Tool (September 15, 2025)
Posted in Culture, Politics, Society on September 15, 2025 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “When you distill the chatter, he was either the messiah or the monster. A legend or a loser. That is the choice in America today.”
J “A monster and a loser. This is America today.”
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K “Reminds me of the obstreperous shouting match between those who pilloried Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Ed Snowden as ‘traitors’ and those who praised them as ‘patriots’ some disputes ago.”
J “Traitors. However, some of the information should have been made public.”
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K “A lot of Democrats openly cheered and smirked.”
J “Everyone is on edge. Everyone is edgy.”
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K “The clear and central message of the profoundly public statement that is an assassination is that no one is above the Owners. Amid the dross and dregs he spouted, Kirk was challenging some powerful interests who are not amused.”
J “I would not completely deny that Kirk was pushing some issues that brought him up on radar and placed him in the cross hairs. Yet his overall messaging was repellant and repugnant.”
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K “Those in power are keen to get the folks with the pitch forks to turn on the folks with the burning torches. That clever strategy is frighteningly effective.”
J “We are strategically cleaved by the big players.”
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J “The chasm is unbridgeable.”
K “The chasm is a gorge, but it is not gorgeous.”
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J “Stay tuned.”
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[See the e-commentary at Assassination As A Public Policy Tool. Oh, And Hope You Had A Happy Bastille Day! (July 15, 2024), November 23, 1963; Three Score Years Later (November 27, 2023), ?There Is No Peaceful Resolution? Oh, And Happy Bastille Day! (July 10, 2023), The Shot Heard Round The U.S. Of A. Oh, And Happy Saint Nicholas Day! (December 9, 2024) and Hero or Traitor? (June 10, 2013).]
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“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men [and women] die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in their capitals.” Edward Abbey
Everything Is Still A Fight Today. Oh, And Happy Civic Holiday (Canada)! (August 4, 2025)
Posted in Culture, Internet, Society on August 4, 2025 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “Everything is still a fight today.”
J “Everything.”
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J “Not available.”
K “Not in stock.”
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J “Please hold. For a long time.”
K “Forever.”
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K “For your convenience.”
J “For your inconvenience.”
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K “The country is broke.”
J “The populace is broken.”
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K “The anger is percolating. The rage is raging. The undigested anger is festering.”
J “Something insignificant will be the trigger.”
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[See the e-commentary at “Everything Is A Fight Today.” Please répondez s’il vous plaît. Oh, And Happy Solstice! (June 17, 2024), Weaponizing Turn Signals (September 19, 2022), Edward Hopper: The Mirror For Our Age (January 22, 2024), The Other Sabot To Drop (April 18, 2022) and The Residue of Unrelenting Fear: PTSD Afflicts The Populace (August 28, 2006).]
“As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set … then the flavor is gone.” Malcolm Muggeridge
Camping is cheaper than therapy, and you don’t have to talk to anyone.
Principled Nihilism And An American Renaissance? Eliminate And Germinate (May 19, 2025)
Posted in Culture, Society on May 19, 2025 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “I read an essay critical of another writer who advanced an insightful analysis of many of society’s problems yet was accused of not advancing workable answers. A prohibition on complaints devoid of answers? I thought about it. That may be the best one can do. Attacking hypocrisy and dishonesty and the like that we do not like with an eye toward eliminating it while also germinating alternative workable ideas is the only course of action.”
J “I have all the answers! Just listen. Yet too often my answers are underpinned by a belief that we can or must change fundamental human nature. That is not going to happen.”
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K “The only way to bring about productive change in America is fundamentally to eliminate not internally reform every major institution. They are fundamentally broken and must be disassembled in toto and rebuilt from the ground up.”
J “It is the individual not the institution. Those limits that nature fixes for human conduct will fix you.”
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[See the e-commentary at Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019), 2020: The Year Of Failed Institutions (And Individuals) (December 21, 2020), Revisiting “Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019)” Four Years Later (December 11, 2023), Time To MAAA: Make America America Again? (September 30, 2024), Fight Or Flight In The Face Of Fear? A Principled Reaction To Stand (November 30, 2020) and Trump: MBA Not MPP: Meat Cleaver Versus Surgeon’s Scalpel (March 3, 2025).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Eliminate and germinate
“We have met the enemy, and boy oh boy is he and she ever you and me.” Mr. Pogo
“We have met the friend and he is us.” Pogo
“If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.” Dalai Lama
What me worry.
“The whole future lies in uncertainty, live immediately.” Seneca
Oh, And Happy Holidays! (December 23, 2024)
Posted in Culture, Society on December 23, 2024 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “The time to think good thoughts.”
J “For old times’ sake.”
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Assassination As A Public Policy Tool. Oh, And Hope You Had A Happy Bastille Day! (July 15, 2024)
Posted in Culture, Politics, Presidency, Society on July 15, 2024 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “Once again, something is not right about the whole shooting match.”
J “Assassinations are as American as processed GMO apple pie.”
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K “Negligent or intentional. There is not a third explanation, unless you consider gross negligence a third category. Do the math.”
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K “Someone I trust who is in a position to know said that neither Trump nor Kennedy will be allowed to cross the threshold of the White House as a tenant in an official capacity.”
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[See the e-commentary at November 23, 1963; Three Score Years Later (November 27, 2023).]
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What happened to America?
“Everything Is A Fight Today.” Please répondez s’il vous plaît. Oh, And Happy Solstice! (June 17, 2024)
Posted in Culture, Internet, Society on June 17, 2024 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “I slide into the conversation that ‘everything is a fight today’ and elicit quick deep-seated and long simmering responses. And nods of frightened understanding.”
J “Because everything is a fight today.”
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K “The populace is anesthetized. Zombieified. Unable to act and unwilling, unless provoked, even to respond.”
J “And they do not know what it is. But on a primal level, they know it is coming.”
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J “Require a license akin to the shortwave radio technicians license to access the Internet. Limit ‘anti-social media’ usage to 15 minutes a day. What promised to bring the world together has blown it to smithereens.”
K “Worth a try. As long as there are no other restrictions or limitations on content.”
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J “I get it. But when?”
K “Moi aussi. The uncertainty is the most debilitating impact.”
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[See Edward Hopper: The Mirror For Our Age (January 22, 2024), The Other Sabot To Drop (April 18, 2022) and The Residue of Unrelenting Fear: PTSD Afflicts The Populace (August 28, 2006).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Everything is a fight today.
What promised to bring the world together has blown it to smithereens.
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