Archive for December 2018
A Rationalist’s Christmas…2018
From the Editor’s Desk… So it is now Christmas, celebrated by Christians and many non-Christians around the world. I am not quite certain what I think about Christmas. I was raised outside of any religious tradition. My parents were secularists and rationalists. But we were, I suppose, what you’d call “cultural Christians.” And that meant…
Read MoreMy Advice For Michael Cohen
“My loyalty for Trump is deep and un-wavering” he said. “I’d never walk away. He’s one man who wants to do so much good but has so many detractors.” This is an excerpt from an article in Vanity Fair magazine written by Emily J. Fox dated September 6, 2017. Its title was “Michael Cohen would…
Read MoreA Christmas Story.
Alaska in the winter is nobody’s idea of fun. Up here, the nights are long and the days are short, and every minute of either one is brutally cold. When I told my editor what I was planning, he told me I was crazy. Alaska is nearly as big as the lower 48 states combined,…
Read MoreMy Own Tumblr Story
You’ll recall that Liberal Resistance dot Net has been steadily (some would say obsessively) following the recent affair of Tumblr’s decision to ban all “adult” material. The story means a lot to us because we’re opposed to censorship. Everyone here is a journalist, or a writer, or an essayist, or an artist…and free expression is…
Read MoreVova, too small for his shapka?
by Colette Hartwich Editor’s note: Vova is the Russian diminutive of the name Vladimir. A shapka is a brimless fur cap. The Kremlin midget, Vova, in his psychotic efforts to become a Tsar and revive the Russian Empire may have gone too far. The non-fake facts on which the non-Russian specialists agree –…
Read MoreNo Apostles Allowed
From The Editor’s Desk Thursday, December 6, 2018 This morning my wife pointed out something that I hadn’t noticed. To wit, at George H.W. Bush’s funeral earlier this month, Trump was alone among the attending dignitaries and former presidents not to recite the Apostles’ Creed — or, at least, he doesn’t appear to in the…
Read MoreThe Passing Decency
From the editor’s desk: Thursday, December 6, 2018 I have been watching the coverage of George H.W. Bush’s funeral, and reading the glowing tributes delivered to the late president by scores of commentators. He is lauded as a genuinely great man …perhaps, indeed, a great president…whose time at the White House benefited America and the…
Read MorePolitical Illustration
Older Now
Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson are Hittin ‘em where it Hurts Editor’s Note: LR Net doesn’t usually run music criticism. However, this piece, by Michael E. Berumen, seems to us to be important on both an aesthetic and also a political level. In it, Berumen looks at a recent work by Miley Cyrus and…
Read MoreGeorge H.W. Bush – rest in peace
From The Editor’s Desk December 1, 2018 As you know, George H.W. Bush passed on recently—specifically on November 30. He will be missed, and at least in my opinion he was a good and decent man. What has been interesting to me, though, is how much the public has expressed real grief at…
Read More