Seven Bullet Holes

The Mystics of the WNBA. 


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The Conformists Have Their Daze

Fifty-years after its making I’m yet convinced that Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist is not only among the greatest films of the director’s career, but one of the greatest films period.

No film speaks louder or more succinctly, in my estimation, about where we are, unsurprisingly, today.

Bertolucci (1941-2018) began his career in revolt, lashing out at the injustices of capitalism and the blinding middle-class decadence he witnessed as a young man. The son of an affluent and highly regarded poet, he was born in Parma, Italy. As a young man, Bertolucci fell under the spell of family friend Pier Paolo Pasolini, who gave him his first job in cinema and became his mentor.--TS


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Something New

I may have a new piece in CounterPunch tomorrow.  So watch for the weekend long format with 30 or more articles.  It'll be my first published article in many months.

There are reasons for this, which I won't get into.  But they're very real.

The topic is conformity, something dear to Americans.


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Keeping it Real at the WSWS

Claiming that the Democratic party had embraced “progressive” ideas such as universal health care and free public education, Sanders declared, “Many of the ideas we fought for that just a few years ago were considered radical are now mainstream.”

This is a ridiculous fraud. Joe Biden was the Senator from Delaware, the corporate tax evasion capital of America. His entire life has been dedicated to the defense of the social interests of Wall Street, consummated by his stint as vice president under an administration that funneled trillions to the banks, declared crooked bankers “too big to jail” while it allowed millions of families to lose their homes. Harris is a vicious ex-prosecutor and California Attorney General who dragged non-violent drug offenders to prison and presided over the nation’s largest prison population.--PM

Come on, man.  You know what the DNC is dishing is complete bullshit.

Over and over again, it's a damn farce.


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Dead Man Walking?

On 11 August, Biden ended months of media speculation that had been intensified by his advanced age and clear signs of cognitive decline. Of course, Harris might end up serving out the remainder of his term should he die or otherwise become unable to fulfill his functions as president. Biden has even himself spoken of being “a transition candidate”, which implies he doesn’t expect or perhaps even intend to serve a full four years should he win.--PB

Do tell.


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The Righteously Pissed Off Jimmy Dore

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Prove You're Not a Pile of Shit

Funny, I got a MAGAC fundraising letter yesterday.  How in the hell they pulled my name out of the hat I don't know. 

I've never signed on to anything Republican.  I fucking hate Republicans a lot more than I hate stupid Democrats.

Biden is a stupid Dem.  There are plenty of those guys and dolls running the country aground in D.C.

There will be no winning here.

I guess they're just throwing darts, seeing if one will stick.



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Main Street

Biden’s offensive right-wing idiocy is just endlessly stunning. It is such an insult for the corporate Dems to be running this clown. It is sad to watch liberals and progressives feeling compelled (to) run behind his big leaky adult diaper with desperate fake-progressive pooper scoopers.--PS

Paul Street has a new book coming out from CounterPunch.


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14 Points

The Good Retired Soldier lays out 14 points for Grampa  Joe Biden.

I have little faith that Biden will listen to or acknowledge this sage advice.

First, he's a fucking neoconservative; second, he is essentially brain dead.

This election is going to be a fiasco like none other. The DNC ought to be drawn and quartered for slapping these circumstances on us.

It's a shame.


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Max and Jimmy I

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Max and Jimmy II

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The Beginning of the End of Biden

 
Okay, the first part of my prediction nailed it.  I said, Kamala Harris would be Biden's running mate.  She's just conservative enough to please Biden's pigheadedness, and liberal enough to please the Democrats who talk change but never act.

We'll see about part II; or how long before Biden quits for the good of the country.  I said within two years.

Biden is a sick man, brain dead, and like Trump is poised to inflict heavy damage on the populace. Or try to: he is a puppet of the DNC at this stage.


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Urgent Care

I've been sick the last few days.

Hoping to be tested for the virus tomorrow.

But have you ever tried to get a doctor's appointment in the U.S. when everyone one else is thinking the same thing?

So I looked around when my regular doctor said he was too booked for me.  Now I have a plan.  Hope it works.


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