Category Archives: politics

Five Votes for Mayflower Descendants

November 9, 2022 – 11:25 am

Yesterday afternoon three friends from Staten Island came to visit me in Clinton Hill. We had worked on several Manhattan construction sites. The trio were full-blown Trump supporters, but honest laborers who kept their opinions to themselves around me. Especially about the 2020 stolen election. We sat on the terrace of Larina Restaurant. They ordered […]

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Loss Of America

November 7, 2022 – 8:44 pm

On September 13, 1926 30,000 white-robed KKK members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. The second wave of the Klan had been nourished by Woodrow Wilson, an adamant racist from pre-bellum Georgia. No police barred their progress through the predominantly black city. Warren Harding had been poisoned by Klaven assassins to prevent his resistance to the Klan, […]

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Vote Early Vote Often

November 7, 2022 – 11:27 am

“Vote Early and vote often.” Those words issued from the mind of James Michael Curley, Boston’s legendary mayor, representing the working classes against the rich of Beacon Hill throughout the early half of the 20th Century. He used graft to finance projects such as hospitals, schools, parks, and the public transportation. James Michael Curly also […]

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THE FUTURE IS NOT OURS TO SEE

July 16, 2022 – 4:53 pm

A crack hotel underneath the Broadway El in Brooklyn sported a TRUMP 2020 banner throughout last year’s electoral process. No one sprayed graffiti over the walls and no one protested about the Orange-man’s attempt to get votes in Bushwick. I was never able to find the Trump HQ in that neighborhood, but thankfully Trump lost, […]

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The Sun Has Set Somewhere

September 15, 2021 – 3:41 am

“El imperio en el que nunca se pone el sol.” or ‘the sun never set on your empire’ was a remark attributed to a loyal courtier of the Holy Roman Empire Charles V. His possessions spanned the globe. Philip II gambled its power on the Spanish Armada. Filthy weather in the Channel thwarted his desire […]

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