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Not the time to lay down this burden
Last night went not as I hoped but as I feared. I indulged in wishful thinking that Biden might win in decisive fashion and the Democrats...

David Matthews
Nov 5, 20204 min read
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The last debate
The bar for Donald Trump set by his own words and deeds is so low that he is given a passing grade if he delivers anything shy of...

David Matthews
Oct 23, 20206 min read
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Mary McCarthy and The Group
I knew of Mary McCarthy and her novels The Group and The Groves of Academe but had not read her until I was intrigued by her depiction in...

David Matthews
Oct 18, 20207 min read
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Nihilist twits rampage in Portland...again
Last night in Portland a cohort of some two hundred nihilist twits who fancy themselves revolutionists, many dressed in black, wearing...

David Matthews
Oct 12, 20202 min read
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Waiting for a debate
debate : a contention by words or arguments (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary Eleventh Ed.) In practice our formal presidential...

David Matthews
Oct 9, 20205 min read
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Protest and responsibility
Protest is as American as cherry pie. So too is the association of protest with violence, the other element in H. Rap Brown's...

David Matthews
Sep 14, 20209 min read
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