Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

So very ready.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

You cannot love your country only when you win.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

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Just to add to Ta-Nehisi Coates day at the blog, one last reminder:  any Balloon Juicers in the greater Boston area are more than welcome at Ta-Nehisi’s reading/talk at MIT tomorrow night — Tuesday, 29 November.  The festivities start at 7 in MIT’s building/room 6-120.  (Interactive map here.)

Ta-Nehisi will be starting from his work-in-progress, a historical novel set before during and after the Civil War, told through multiple voices — of slaves and former slaves, slave-holders and more.  Readers of this blog will remember Ta-Nehisi’s exceptional work on recovering some of the willed forgetting that marks so much Civil War history during “Confederate History Month” a year or so ago – DennisG highlighted that work as he added his own contributions to the effort.  This latest work is the next iteration of that inquiry — and Ta-Nehisi will talk about some of the specific challenges he’s facing as he tries to write through facts into the sound and texture of the past.

Should be a great time. Come if you’ve the necessary proximity and the interest.  (BTW:  in response to a question on my earlier announcement of this event: it’s free and open to the public, no tickets required.)

 

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  4. 4.

    SFAW

    Tom –

    6-120? What is that, a 30-person room? Why not 10-250?

    (Yes, I know 6-120 holds somewhat more than 30, I’m just being a pain in the neck. And I would hope TNC would draw more than it holds.)

    Best place to park? Mass Ave? Kresge lot? Mem Drive?

    I hope I can make it, thanks for posting about it.

  5. 5.

    Tom Levenson

    @SFAW: 150 or so. And why not 10-250? Because I have no idea how many TNC will draw at an engineering school the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. I had Lewis Hyde draw 50, and just after I got to MIT, I was there when Haruki Murakami so overwhelmed 10-250 that the cops came and cleared out half the room. To invoke William Goldman: No One Knows Anything.

    Mem Drive is the closest. Mass Ave.’s OK — so is Ames. If you’ve got an MIT sticker, you can park right on the campus main lot.

  6. 6.

    SFAW

    Tom –

    Engineering school? Is that what they do there?

    I was only kidding about 10-250 – it’d be nice to think he’d draw 400+, but I don’t know if that’d be a reasonable expectation.

    No sticker, so I guess I gots to drive around for a bit. I hope I can make it.

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