By @BossBird17 Looking back over the past year, it’s unfathomable that Trump’s time in office has only been fifteen months. Indeed, it feels as if fifteen years have passed. In the book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, one of the writers accurately depicted what every citizen is experiencing by conveying that we are locked…

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By Luke Haines I spend a lot of my time in Ireland for my day job. I’m in Ireland as I write this, in a town called Tralee, immortalised in the song “The Rose of Tralee” which subsequently gave its name to an annual woman-judging contest. Irish music only has two genres – threatening and…

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By @BossBird17 Part II: Don’t You Forget About Me   When I remember the turmoil of the late sixties and early seventies, I recollect how poorly our Vietnam Veterans were treated. They were spit on and called baby killers. My heart breaks for them; they deserved better. Thankfully, the climate in our country changed, we…

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By @BossBird17 The title is a question that was posed by Rajneesh (a.k.a. Osho), a controversial Indian guru and mystic. This question came to mind while I watched James Comey’s interview on ABC and while reading Donald Trump’s tweet storm regarding Comey’s actions and character. To me, it is an important question and not just…

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You have to hand it to Trump supporters; they’re nothing if not tenacious. In a battle with reality, logic, facts and basic human decency, they’ve been losing since the start and yet still stubbornly refuse to go down. Refusing to admit defeat does not seem to be in the mental playbook of Trump supporter Rod…

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As always, the web is looking wild and woolly in an age of Trump. Check out some of the following: Glance at this piece by Kate Briquelet over on the Daily Beast about Trump’s reported $30K payment to a doorman at Trump Tower to kill a story about his infidelities and possible love child. Makes…

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The Simpsons has found itself in hot water recently after they attempted to address the criticisms put forward by film maker Hari Kondabolu in his documentary “The Problem With Apu.” Some cite the documentary as an important point in ongoing conversations about race in America, whilst the usual reactionaries have dismissed it as an example…

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Okay, everybody. Stand ready. We know the Drumpf is planning something. The question is what and when. Is he going to fire Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein or who? And what do we do about it? The Week, among many other publications, is now saying that Trump wants very badly to fire…

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